Quotes About Peace

Sleep, Silence's child, sweet father of soft rest, Prince whose approach peace to all mortals brings, Indifferent host to shepherds and kings, Sole comforter to minds with grief oppressed.

Sleep is the most blessed and blessing of all natural graces.

General Quotations about Evenings Let us add this one more night to our lives.

When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.

Do not lose your inward peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.

To win true peace, a man needs to feel himself directed, pardoned and sustained by a supreme power, to feel himself in the right road, at the point where God would have him be-in order with God and the universe. This faith gives strength and calm.

All the fame I look for in life is to have lived it quietly.

Your flag and my flag, And how it flies today In your land and my land And half a world away! Rose-red and blood-reed The stripes forever gleam; Snow-white and soul-white - The good forefathers' dream; Sky-blue and true-blue, with stars to gleam aright - The gloried guidon of the day, a shelter through the night.

"I can forgive, but I cannot forget" is only another way of saying, "I will not forgive." Forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note-torn in two and burned up so that it never can be shown against one.

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrong.

Nobody ever forgets where he buried a hatchet.

To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.

Resentments are burdens we don't need to carry.

I tell you, there is no such thing as creative hate!

Hate smolders and eventually destroys, not the hated but the hater.

My mother used to say, "He who angers you conquers you."

Grateful for the blessing lent of simple tastes and mind content!

You can be happy indeed if you have breathing space from pain.

And we find at the end of a perfect day, The soul of a friend we've made.

A garden is a lovesome thing - God wot! Rose plot, Fringed pool, Fern grot - The veriest school Of peace; and yet the fool Contends that God is not. - Not God in gardens! When the sun is cool? Nay, but I have a sign! 'Tis very sure God walks in mine.

One is nearer God's heart in a garden Than anywhere else on earth.

For it isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

God's in His Heaven - All's right with the world!

He maketh me to lie down in green pastures; he leadeth me beside the still warm waters.