Quotes About Peace

Americans don't understand the first thing about love, Taslima's mother added. If they understood love, would they do all the terrible things they do in the world, bringing war everywhere?

Strive to be kind to each other's whirlwind girl. Strive to remember that each one of us is precious and necessary, that drama and wars put out our light. Strive to remember that this is our one, short life, and the choices we make will determine what comes of it.

Nobody suspected that the World War just ending would prove to be merely the first one. Had not President Wilson proclaimed it the war to end all wars—if we jumped in and did the dirty job?

In one family, every little plan or question is discussed amid bickering and irritation. In another, without the least effort, every discussion goes on amid perfect peace. This is just as easy, and infinitely more agreeable: only, in many homes it does not happen to be the family habit.

No woman has ever stepped on Little America -- and we have found it to be the most silent and peaceful place in the world.

When a man achieves a fair measure of harmony within himself and his family circle, he achieves peace; and a nation made up of such individuals and groups is a happy nation. As the harmony of a star in its course is expressed by rhythm and grace, so the harmony of a man's life-course is expressed by happiness; this, I believe, is the prime desire of mankind.

The day was dying, the night being born-but with great peace. Here were the imponderable processes and forces of the cosmos, harmonious and soundless. Harmony, that was it! That was what came out of the silence -- a gentle rhythm, the strain of a perfect chord, the music of the spheres, perhaps.

I am hopeful that Antarctica in its symbolic robe of white will shine forth as a continent of peace as nations working together there in the cause of science set an example of international cooperation.

The things that mankind has tested and found right make for harmony and progress -- or peace; and the things it has found wrong hinder progress and make for discord. The right things lead to rational behavior -- such as the substitution of reason for force -- and so to freedom. The wrong things lead to brute force and slavery.

If life has those moments — ecstasies of health, youth and peace... — treasure them.

I am a lover of what is, not because I'm a spiritual person, but because it hurts when I argue with reality.

Peace doesn't require two people; it requires only one. It has to be you. The problem begins and ends there.

When we stop opposing reality, action becomes simple, fluid, kind, and fearless.

When you srgue with reality, you lose, but only 100% of the time.

An unquestioned mind is the world of suffering.

I am thinking, yes, about mute thunder. The honey of twilight.

once the will is submitted to the Father the fundamental cause of our anxieties is now removed.

I am convinced that prayer, effective praying, is a divine gift that comes while praying. Sounds odd, prayer comes while you are praying? But I think that really there is praying which gets results and that is fine, but then there is praying that gets into the center of God's will and gets bigger results and also leaves the soul at peace, satisfied that God's will has been contacted and God has responded with peace in the heart.

The day I understood everything, was the day I stopped trying to figure everything out. The day I knew peace was the day I let everything go.

Choose your battles wisely. After all, life isn't measured by how many times you stood up to fight. It's not winning battles that makes you happy, but it's how many times you turned away and chose to look into a better direction. Life is too short to spend it on warring. Fight only the most, most, most important ones, let the rest go.

Our bodies have five senses: touch, smell, taste, sight, hearing. But not to be overlooked are the senses of our souls: intuition, peace, foresight, trust, empathy. The differences between people lie in their use of these senses; most people don't know anything about the inner senses while a few people rely on them just as they rely on their physical senses, and in fact probably even more.

If you want to forget something or someone, never hate it, or never hate him/her. Everything and everyone that you hate is engraved upon your heart; if you want to let go of something, if you want to forget, you cannot hate.

Forgiving and being forgiven are two names for the same thing. The important thing is that a discord has been resolved.

Tea should be taken in solitude...