Quotes About Peace

Happiness is a function of accepting what is.

The mind which renounces, once and forever, a futile hope, has its compensations in ever-growing calm.

And acceptance is the answer to all my problems today. ... I can find no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing, or situation as being exactly the way it is supposed to be at this moment.

Things past redress are now with me past care.

When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.

Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.

O golden Silence, bid our souls be still, and on the foolish fretting of our care lay thy soft touch of healing unaware!

Living upon a basis of unsatisfied demands, we were in a state of continual disturbance and frustration. Therefore, no peace was to be had unless we could find a means of reducing these demands.

If you can't help it, don't think about it.

Do not think of all your anxieties, you will only make yourself ill.

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

And all the loveliest things there be Come simply, so it seems to me.

Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.

I won't quarrel with my bread and butter.

When man to man shall be a friend and brother.

There has never been a war of Canadian origin, nor for a Canadian cause.

To be Canadian is to live in relative calm and with great dignity.

The night shall be filled with music And the cares that infest the day Shall fold their tents like the Arabs, And as silently steal away.

We can say "Peace on Earth." We can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.

Unlike Christianity, which preached a peace that it never achieved, Islam unashamedly came with a sword.

Far from gay cities, and the way of men.

Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.

We sit by and watch the barbarian. We tolerate him in the long stretches of peace, we are not afraid. We are tickled by his irreverence; his comic inversion of our old certitudes and our fixed creed refreshes us; we laugh. But as we laugh we are watched by large and awful faces from beyond, and on these faces there are no smiles.

For him who has no concentration, there is no tranquility.