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Quotes About Peace

Asked, Who is the rich man? Epictetus replied, ?He who is content.
~ Epictetus
On the mountains there is freedom! The world is perfect everywhere, Save where man comes with his torment.
~ Friedrich Schiller
No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs.
~ Harold MacMillan
God is not dead; nor doth He sleep; ... The wrong shall fail, The right prevail, With peace on earth, good will to men.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
We cannot change ideas in the minds of men and races with machine guns or battle ships.
~ Herbert Hoover
By helping you discover a deep source of knowledge and wisdom, meditation practice can bring you to the sense of connection, completion, and fulfillment that you yearn for. Ultimately, it can help you arrive at the more profound sense of peace and happiness that comes only from connecting with your deeper essence.
~ Tenzin Wangyal
Let nothing disturb the silence of this time with you, my Lord.
~ Teresa de Avila
if it is prayer at all, it must be accompanied by meditation.
~ Teresa of Avila
Give me, if you will, prayers; Or let me know dryness, An abudance of devotion, Or if not, then barrenness. In you alone, Sovereign Majesty, I find my peace, What do you want of me? Yours I am, fo ryou I was born: What do you want of me?
~ Teresa of Avila
Any unrest and any strife can be borne, as I have already said, if we find peace where we live; but if we would have rest from the thousand trials which afflict us in the world and the Lord is pleased to prepare such rest for us, and yet the cause of the trouble is in ourselves, the result cannot but be very painful, indeed almost unbearable.
~ Teresa of Avila
that you may reap humility from your dryness, instead of the disquietude the devil strives to cause by it. I believe that where true humility exists, although God should never bestow consolations, yet He gives a peace and resignation which make the soul happier than are others with sensible devotion.
~ Teresa of Avila
a garden in which the Beloved takes great delight. What do you think a place might be like that such a king—so powerful and wise, so pure and filled with all good things—would find so delightful? I
~ Teresa of Avila
A day in heaven,' Adam whispered. What would that be like? To wake up one morning and be normal ? To not bite down and parcel out each second of each day. To not wrestle and negotiate with your obsessions. To not have thoughts that ran you into the ground. To have a quit mind. A quiet mind. Quiet.
~ Teresa Toten
A day in heaven,' Adam whispered. What would
~ Teresa Toten
Instead of worrying, we need to be seeking His kingdom and His righteousness.
~ Terri Blackstock
Give your stress wings and let it fly away.
~ Terri Guillemets
My favorite weather is bird-chirping weather.
~ Terri Guillemets
A cloudless plain blue sky is like a flowerless garden.
~ Terri Guillemets
Just before dawn I have the world all to myself.
~ Terri Guillemets
If you can't get quiet enough to hear yourself, your life is too loud.
~ Terri Guillemets
Warrior pose battles inner weakness and wins focus. You see that there is no war within you. You're on your own side, and you are your own strength.
~ Terri Guillemets
...and torture myself with happy thoughts...
~ Terri Guillemets
The last time I opened my chakra so I could feel my peace, I got thrown right out of the pub.
~ Terri Guillemets
Dancing faces you towards Heaven, whichever direction you turn.
~ Terri Guillemets