Quotes About Peace

Wisdom is the only thing which can banish sorrow from the breast .

The man who has a garden and a library has everything.

Prayer ushers in order out of chaos, pulls peace out of confusion and destruction, and brings joy in the midst of sorrow. It takes what Satan meant for evil and brings us good. Prayer—

Look deep into your heart, Gentle Reader. Deep, deep, deep; past your desire for true love, for inexhaustible riches or uncontested sexual championship, for the ability to fight crime and restore peace to a weary world. Underneath all this, if you are a true, red-blooded American, you'll find the throbbing desire to be famous.

been tumbled smooth by waves

If you choose to stay with us, Jaime, and if we choose to accept you, the pride, the vanity, must go. You will learn by observing and experiencing the training process, which, as you're probably gathering, won't always be easy and won't always be fun. But in the process, if you can set aside your preconceptions, your fear, and most especially your ego, you will achieve a level of peace and actualization that is tremendously freeing." Jaime

I escape into sleep. Sleep is what I'll miss most when I die.

I write and that way rid myself of me and then at last I can rest.

Do not mourn the dead. They know what they are doing.

Your full name, Kama Ho'omaluhia i ka La'i, means 'child who brings peace.

Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night.

I dream a world . . . where every man is free . . . And joy, like a pearl, attends the needs of all mankind . . .

Until the last man threw away his weapon (any sort of weapon), the tribe of Man could not be at peace.

Squatted beside the fire, with the warmth of it upon his face and hands, he felt a smug contentment that seemed strangely out of place--the contentment of a man who had reduced his needs to the strictly basic--and with the contentment came a full-bodied confidence that was just as out of place.

If some of the nations would only take a lesson from some small neighborhood like ours—a lesson in how to get along—the world would be a whole lot better.

War is but a continuation of diplomacy by alternate means.

Her mother had always said that women, being more at peace with themselves than men, needed fewer distractions from their hurts.

And in time it will be as though men had never come to this perfect corner of the world—never called it paradise on earth, never despoiled it with their dream factories; and in the golden hush of the afternoon all that will be heard will be the flittering of dragonflies, and the murmur of hummingbirds as they pass from bower to bower, looking for a place to sup sweetness.

except that she was sleeping not in preparation for a new day but for endless night.

Ten minutes later, Cabrillo was sprawled across his bed, sleeping so soundly that, for the first time in a long time, he didn't need the mouth guard to keep him from grinding his teeth.

Five The air across the valley is slightly hazy though thinning though patches remain between the groves of trees that edge a clearing in which stands a single house. A child in a white t-shirt has just walked out of the house and is turning to walk down to the lake.

Time spent with a cat is never wasted.

In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.

The Midland Midwest would develop as a center of moderation and tolerance, where people of many faiths and ethnicities lived side by side, largely minding their own business.