Quotes About Peace

In times of trouble, libraries are sanctuaries.

Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair and let us huddle together as darkness takes over. We are at home amidst the birds and the trees, for we are children of nature.

Well, I think by any expectation South Africa has come a tremendously long way. We've seen a society that many people thought couldn't withstand a peaceful transition to democracy without a great deal of violence, in fact, make that transition and do it in relative peace and security.

No sleeping in the places of death.

Nature is medicine for the soul, Miss Rolston.

To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.

She sat very still, listening to a stream gurgling, the breeze soughing through upper branches, the melodious kloo-klack of ravens, the nyeep-nyeep of nuthatches - all sounds chokingly beautiful. She felt she could hear the cool clean breath of growing things - fern fronds, maple leaves, white trillium petals, tree trunks, each in its rightful place.

Allowing beauty a place in the soul was a powerful antidote to the stress and strain of mortal life.

El patrón respiratorio se caracteriza por un ritmo regular, de baja frecuencia y con espiraciones prolongadas; el aire entra y sale por la nariz, la boca está semicerrada y los labios relajados forman una leve sonrisa.

In my mind are all the tides, their seasons, their ebbs and their flows. In my mind are all the halls, the endless procession of them, the intricate pathways. When this world becomes too much for me, when I grow tired of the noise and the dirt and the people, I close my eyes and I name a particular vestibule to myself; then I name a hall.

It was that time when I am finally able to sleep the sweetest, the deepest.

Give me my Scallop shell of quiet.

When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free. —Catherine Ponder

Because when he sings...even the birds stop to listen.

Are you preparing for another war, Plutarch?" I ask. "Oh, not now. Now we're in a sweet period where everyone agrees that our recent horrors should never be repeated," he says. "But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction. Although who knows? Maybe this will be it, Katniss.

My sleep wasn't peaceful, though. I have the sense of emerging from a world of dark, haunted places where I traveled alone.

Remember that even in war there is a time for restraint. A time to hold back your sword.

For me, it's better to wake up with a paintbrush than a knife in my hand. -Peeta

But if you want to find peace, you must first be able to hope it is possible.

Oh, be quiet, Fo-Fo.

How much energy they put into harming each other. How little into saving.

Living out here, I have found that many creatures would prefer not to fight. But if your first instinct is to reach for your sword, you will never discover that.

Hope," said Vikus. "There are times it will be very hard to find. Times when it will be much easier to choose hate instead. But if you want to find peace, you must first be able to hope it is possible.

Lay down your head, and close your sleepy eyes, and when again they open, the sun will rise.