Quotes About Peace

True success is exiting some rat race to modulate one's activities for peace of mind

Montaigne also detected the agency problem, or why the last thing a doctor needs is for you to be healthy: "No doctor derives pleasure from the health of his friends, wrote the ancient Greek satirist, no soldier from the peace of his city, etc." (Nul médecin ne prent plaisir à la santé de ses amis mesmes, dit l'ancien Comique Grec, ny soldat à la paix de sa ville: ainsi du reste.)

Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote, citing him: "It seemed, wrote Machiavelli, that in the midst of murders and civil wars, our republic became stronger [and] its citizens infused with virtues.… A little bit of agitation gives resources to souls and what makes the species prosper isn't peace, but freedom.

later—unlike gardeners, who understand rather well that pruning trees strengthens them. Likewise peace—some kind of forced, constrained, non-natural peace—may be costly in lives: just

that in the midst of murders and civil wars, our republic became stronger [and] its citizens infused with virtues.… A little bit of agitation gives resources to souls and what makes the species prosper isn't peace, but freedom.

Se você não gostar de uma pessoa, deixe-a em paz ou a exclua da sua vida; não a ataque verbalmente.

You will be civilized on the day you can spend a long period doing nothing, learning nothing, and improving nothing, without feeling the slightest amount of guilt.

Aportarán también su profundo y obstinado amor por el ocio, por la contemplación, por una vida solitaria y apartada, y el deseo de una época en el que haya un amplio espacio para los que no tienen ganas de hacer nada.

No nos curaremos nunca de esta guerra. Es inútil. Jamás volveremos a ser gente serena, gente que piensa y estudia y construye su vida en paz. Mirad lo que han hecho con nuestras casas. Mirad lo que han hecho con nosotros. Jamás volveremos a ser gente tranquila.

No a todo el mundo le hace bien la soledad. A ti no te hace bien porque piensas cosas absurdas. A mí, en cambio, la soledad me gusta y me hace bien.

So she was unprepared for the homely little house beside the pond, unprepared for the gentle eddies of dust, the silver cobwebs, the mouse who lived—and welcome to him!—in a table drawer.

The late sun's brilliance could penetrate only in scattered glimmers, and everything was silent and untouched, the ground muffled with moss and sliding needles, the graceful arms of the pines stretched out protectively in every direction. And it was cool, blessedly cool and green.

I think it's very painful, and that it's better not to have any doubts. I envy those who don't have any; I envy them a lot. They are happy people.

He thought of how calm he was. His calm was so perfect that he could not destroy it even by being conscious of it.

Peace be with all the world! My blessing on my friends! My forgiveness to my enemies! For I am in the realm of quiet!

Then she was sure of her, and tasted hours of quiet, sad, delicious happiness;

Drink it! It may be less soothing than a sinless conscience. That I cannot give thee. But it will calm the swell and heaving of thy passion, like oil thrown on the waves of a tempestuous sea.

In no state of society would he have been what is called a man of liberal views; it would always be essential to his peace to feel the pressure of a faith about him, supporting, while it confined him within its iron framework.

It is a comfortable thought, that the smallest and most turbid mud-puddle can contain its own picture of Heaven.

I never, till now, had a friend who could give me repose; all have disturbed me, and, whether for pleasure or pain, it was still disturbance. But peace overflows from your heart into mine.

no better occupation than to look down into the garden.

For peace and for survival, others must be accommodated. The moment any of them gave up on the difficult work of living with their neighbors—and all of the compromise, frustration, and delay that inevitably entailed—they risked losing everything. It was a lesson that Bradford and Massasoit had learned over the course of more than three long decades. That it could be so quickly forgotten by their children remains a lesson for us today.

You have to fight for your freedom and for peace. You have to fight for it every day, to keep it. It's like a glass boat; it's easy to break. It's easy to lose. —JOACHIM RØNNEBERG, Gunnerside leader

Hey, says Hayden, I'm Switzerland; neutral as can be, and also with great chocolate. Get lost, Roland tells him. Already am. And Hayden strolls away.