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Quotes About Peace

A life of rest and peace in God is good; a life of pain lived in patience is still better; but to have peace in a life of pain is best of all.
~ Meister Eckhart
If you are wholly perplexed and in straits, have patience, for patience is the key to joy.
~ Rumi
Wise men are not pacifists; they are merely less likely to jump up and retaliate against their antagonizers. They know that needless antagonizers are virtually already insecure enough.
~ Criss Jami
May nothing wind you up, nothing affright you; everything comes and goes. God, still, just there; through patience all will be achieved. If you have God, you lack nothing: God alone will do.
~ Teresa of Avila
Let nothing disturb thee, Let nothing affright thee; All passeth away: God only shall stay. Patience wins all: Who hath God, needeth nothing; For God is his All.
~ Thomas a Kempis
A wise man does not try to hurry history. Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.
~ Adlai Stevenson I
Life it too short to deal with crazy people.
~ Karen E. Quinones Miller
I have no patience with people who go around blowing up innocent people.
~ Barack Obama
Fishing provides time to think, and reason not to. If you have the virtue of patience, an hour or two of casting alone is plenty of time to review all you've learned about the grand themes of life.
~ Carl Safina
Don't Raise your Anger into a War, Raise it into a Plan
~ Noormohammad Bhuayan
Be patient and one day you will be in Heaven, where there will be only peace and joy ... You will possess an enduring tranquility and rest.
~ Francis de Sales
There is nothing so bitter that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.
~ Seneca
Standing, as I do, in view of God and eternity, I realise that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone (On the eve of her execution)
~ Edith Cavell
Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic
~ Mahatma Gandhi
If our country is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve that it is truly worth living for in time of peace.
~ Hamilton Fish
1 realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred toward any one.
~ Edith Cavell
...patriotism has become a narrow offensive sentiment which as long as it lives will maintain war and exhaust the world
~ Henri Barbusse, Hell
Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.
~ Gautama Buddha, The Dhammapada
What we need in South Africa is for egos to be suppressed in favour of peace. We need to create a new breed of South Africans who love their country and love everybody, irrespective of their colour.
~ Chris Hani
Peace is what every human being is craving for, and it can be brought about by humanity through the child.
~ Maria Montessori
Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.
~ Dalai Lama
I finally figured it out, I finally figured out how to find some peace and happiness. I sure would hate for the man upstairs to take me now. But at least I did figure it out.
~ Lewis Grizzard
The greatest comforts and lasting peace are obtained, when one eradicates selfishness from within.
~ Guru Gobind Singh
Listen to the inner light; It will guide you. Listen to the inner Peace; It will feed you. Listen to the inner Love; It will transform you, It will divinise you, It will immortalise you.
~ Sri Chinmoy