Quotes About Peace

Imagine a world where nations find the search for life in the universe more interesting than the taking of life on Earth.

Without knowing it, I had identified a subtle but important part of the healing process. There would be no peace for me, no life for me, until I learned to forgive life for what it had done to me, forgive others for still being alive, and eventually, forgive myself for being alive.

excitement is found along the road, not at the end, and likewise, peace is not a fixed point-except perhaps in the unwanted rest in peace sense. PEACE is the breathing space between destinations, between excitements, an occasional part of the journey, if you're lucky. PEACE is a space you move through very rarely, and very briefly-but your not allowed to stay there. you have to keep moving, and go do what you do. because you can...

do all you can to stop the ungodly chatter.

Rich Miller, Letting Go of Fear (Harvest House Publishers, 2018).

Forgiveness is the fragrance that is left on the heel that crushed the violet.

Without women, there would be perpetual war and chaos. With them, there was only chaos.

Cursed are the peacemakers for they make the next war harder than the last.

My own face-offs with death had made me see death differently. Death had become not a possibility, but a probability, so I made peace with that dark horseman, and that peace has stayed with me on my borrowed time.

Everything had come good at last, after so many years. I had reached the happy ending of the story, and I was quietly, serenely happy. In the soft, velvety darkness I lay utterly at peace for I had finished with all heartaches, with all pains and worries; nothing could touch me now. I had finished the book but I could take it up and read it over and over again, and I would do so, secure in the knowledge of the happiness in the last chapter.

When you and I are dead, and all the rest of us who served in the last war, in all the countries," she said, "there'll be a chance of world peace. Not till then.

many people think excitement is happiness', actually 'when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.

Si no se emplean en las misiones de paz, es difícil saber para qué sirven soldados, en una Europa que ha declarado la paz perpetua dentro de sus fronteras y que ya no es amenazada por Rusia.

The Bolsheviks promised their supporters 'Peace, Bread and Power to the Soviets'. Peace turned out to mean abject capitulation.

In peace one is despoiled by the mercenaries, in war by one's enemies.

men live peacefully as long as their old way of life is maintained and there is no change in customs.

But in republics there is more vitality, more hatred, and more desire for revenge. The memory of former freedom simply will not leave the people in peace.

If in other respects the old condition of things be continued, and there be no discordance in their customs, men live peaceably with one another...

mantenendosi loro le condizioni vecchie e non vi essendo disformità di costumi, li uomini si vivono quietamente; come s'è visto che ha fatto la Borgogna, la Brettagna, la Guascogna e la Normandia, che tanto tempo sono state con Francia;

When the duke occupied the Romagna he found it under the rule of weak masters, who rather plundered their subjects than ruled them, and gave them more cause for disunion than for union, so that the country was full of robbery, quarrels, and every kind of violence; and so, wishing to bring back peace and obedience to authority, he considered it necessary to give it a good governor. Thereupon

When women gain a voice in society, there's evidence of less violence.

Love should bring joy, it should grant a person peace, but here and not, it was bringing only pain.

Silence is pure and holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking.

It is life, I think, to watch the water. A man can learn so many things.