Quotes About Peace

I am very much about peace. There is so much turmoil in this world.

I'll always be in some type of turmoil. So what I've tried to do is just surrender to that.

Mediation is one of the most effective tools of non-violence. It can turn parties away from conflict, towards compromise.

I did once seriously think of embracing the Christian faith. The gentle figure of Christ, so full of forgiveness that he taught his followers not to retaliate when abused or struck, but to turn the other cheek - I thought it was a beautiful example of the perfect man.

When you are alone and too tired even to turn on any of your devices, you let yourself linger in a past stacked among your pillows.

It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.

My father was the superintendent of the churches in the state of Montana. He was content in his beliefs. He befit the term 'true Christian.' He would turn the other cheek. He was truly a man of peace.

Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.

Do I regret how my life turned out? Of course not - not for a single second.

I have no complaints on any level. I'm pretty happy about the way everything has turned out.

The Lord had been very gracious, and spoke peace to me in the time of my distress, and I now most ungratefully turned again to folly; at times I felt sharp reproof, but I did not get low enough to cry for help.

I don't need arms, and neither does anyone else... At the very least, a ban would prevent fights from turning deadly.

I believe in the philosophy of turning the other cheek.

When I'm awake, I don't want to go to sleep. I don't want the hassle of turning the light off, putting my head down and then all the thoughts. I don't want al those thoughts... thoughts feed on thoughts feed on thoughts feed on thoughts feed on thoughts and I'm: 'I don't want this'. I have to knock myself out to go to sleep.

We have always realized, as Israelis and as Jews, that we are not fighting Islam and thus avoided turning the Temple Mount issue into a war of Jews against Muslims.

Turning your engine off while sitting in your car is not only a no brainer, but it can also lead to peace on earth... in my neighborhood, anyway.

I have a tough time turning my brain off, to be honest.

I'm actually a big fan of turning off my phone and ignoring it for large chunks of the day.

I love being middle-aged in general. I'm more at peace with myself now. I still have tormented times, but they are few and far between. You don't feel you have to be the centre of your world when you get older. Becoming a mother had been a turning point which stopped me from being the centre of my world.

Meditation was a turning point for me. It helped me deal with a lot of stress and has given me a lot of relaxation.

Hamas, the opponents of Arafat, the opponents of peace, urged a boycott of the election, and yet there was an 85 percent turnout where Hamas is supposed to be strong. Isn't that really quite incredible?

He who turns the other cheek will get hit with the other fist.

When I sing, I have a sense of peace, I feel like my brain turns off, and I become the core person of who I am - the essence of me. I feel connected to whatever is out there. It's almost like I leave my body and get to watch.

Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is hatred, the continuance of hatred turns malice.