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Quotes About Peace

A great many worries can be diminished by realizing the unimportance of the matter which is causing anxiety.
~ Bertrand Russell
A problem not worth praying about is not worth worrying about.
~ Anonymous
Worry is the cross which we make for ourselves by overanxiety.
~ Francois de Fenelon
Happy the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying, once and for all.
~ Ovid
A request not to worry ... is perhaps the least soothing message capable of human utterance.
~ Mignon G. Eberhart
Glee! The great storm is over!
~ Emily Dickinson
The remedy for wrongs is to forget them.
~ Syrus
Peace is not the mere absence of war. It is a positive condition of justice. It is the sister of charity and mercy. It is the offspring of honesty and truth. It is the triumph of principle.
~ Dorothy Thompson, 1945
I come not to bring negative peace, but I come to bring positive peace. I come not to bring this old peace which is merely the absence of tension; I come to bring a positive peace which is the presence of justice and the Kingdom of God. Peace is not merely the absence of something, but it's the presence of something.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr., 1957
Right on, brother hippies, the [??n!$] is mightier than the sword!
~ The Progressive, 1971
The sword is brother to the olive wreath.
~ Hindustan proverb
Keep calm and acupuncture on.
~ Internet meme
You will be freed from the labour of worry.
~ Israel Dr Regardie
Stalin`s Russia treated Jews as equals — not as superiors like the US. If Jewish nationalism were treated in England and the US as it was in Moscow in the days of Stalin, the citizens of Baghdad and Teheran, Basra and Ramallah would be able to sleep peacefully in their own homes.
~ Israel Shamir
There is nothing frightening about an eternal dreamless sleep. Surely it is better than eternal torment in Hell and eternal boredom in Heaven.
~ Issac Asimov
For as long as there are men and women, some things in life will best be done arm in arm, and strolling in a flower garden is one.
~ Ivan Doig
Nightly awaits that sweet address Principality of Sleep Happy Land of Forgetfullness
~ Ivan Doig
Tako se teško živi, tako se kratko živi, pa još dobra polovica tog teškog i kratkog života nam pro?e u mržnji i nesporazumima. Oh, ugasite mržnju! Ljudi su nama potrebni i nikako se, nikako ne može živjeti bez opraštanja.
~ Ivo Andri?
Šta vredi imati mnogo i biti nešto, kad ?ovek ne može da se oslobodi straha od sirotinje, ni niskosti u mislima, ni grubosti u re?ima, ni nesigurnosti u postupcima, kad gorka i neumitna a nevidljiva beda prati ?oveka u stopu, a taj lepši, bolji i mirniji život izmi?e se kao varljivo privi?enje.
~ Ivo Andri?
Whenever a government feels the need of promising peace and prosperity to its citizens by means of a proclamation, it is time to be on guard and expect the opposite.
~ Ivo Andri?
Ja, covjek nestalna srca koji živim bez mira i radosti; gorak život o tudjem hljebu, nemirne prošlosti, pune lutanja, nesnalaženja i stradanja, nestalne, teške sadašnjosti i mra?ne budu?nosti,šiban strastima, potresen doga?ajima, i mu?en od ljudi, oboren i gažen na ulazu u život, podgrižen grijehom, i borbom proti grijehu-ja žudim svom dušom mir i molim no?as od Boga život vedar i tih da se ne kidam u sebi i ne lomim svijetom.
~ Ivo Andri?
Oh, ugasite mržnju! Ljudi su nama potrebni i nikako se, nikako ne može živjeti bez opraštanja.
~ Ivo Andri?
Pero ya al día siguiente todo volvía a ser igual que siempre, porque a los visegradenses no les gusta recorfar lo malo ni preocuparse por adelantado; en la sangre llevan la certidumbre de que la buena vida se compone de treguas y de que sería alocado y absurdo enturbiar estas escasas treguas buscando una vida más firme y estable que no existe.
~ Ivo Andri?
U ?utanju je sigurnost.
~ Ivo Andri?