Quotes About Peace

Be still like a mountain and flow like a great river.

Stop thinking, and end your problems.

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.

The Way of Heaven does not compete, And yet it skillfully achieves victory. It does not speak, and yet it skillfully responds to things. It comes to you without your invitation.

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

Arms are instruments of ill omen. . . . When one is compelled to use them, it is best to do so without relish. There is no glory in victory, and to glorify it despite this is to exult in the killing of men. . . . When great numbers of people are killed, one should weep over them with sorrow. When victorious in war, one should observe mourning rites.

Scholars of the highest class, when they hear about the Tao...

There is no calamity greater than lightly engaging in war.

Who loves the world? The sleeper does

Weapons by themselves don't provoke

But writers experience the world and themselves in a unique way. We look for meaning. We see it even when we are not paying attention, which is seldom because, as writers, paying attention is what we do. We are scribes to the ticking of the days, and we have a job to do. We are not at peace unless we are doing it.

You have to do something in your life that is honorable and not cowardly if you are to live in peace with yourself, and for the firefighter it is fire.

We ain't having no more futile wars. Till we have one in the Middle East.

When spiritual friends share their stories, the others listen without working. They rest. There's nothing to fix, nothing to improve. A spiritual community feels undisturbed quiet as they listen, certainly burdened . . . but still resting in the knowledge that the life within, the passion for holiness, is indestructible. It needs only to be nourished and released.

The world won't change for the better unless we trust people, trust is vital to a peaceful world.

If you do your research on hot springs all over the world, they're usually places of peace. People, even in warring nations and so forth, they'll go and live in peace together around the hot springs, which were always considered medicinal. I firmly believe in water therapy.

never be petty; always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

I'm sure partial to the evening,' Augustus said. 'The evening and the morning. If we just didn't have to have the rest of the dern day I'd be a lot happier.

Inner peace and a clear conscience can't always be trusted.

but you're beginning to get a taste of what it is like to be free and clear, wholehearted and effortless.

The year has held its ups and downs for me; I'm sure it has for you, too. I'm counting on the year ending on a note of joy (and gingerbread!) and look forward to a new year brimming with promise and peace.

It is beautiful, all, in its going, This wonderful, sweet summer time; The leaflets glide down through the sunshine, As poets thoughts glide into rhyme. Sweet Summer looks over her shoulder, And whispers once more her farewells-- I wonder if Peace will come with her When her feet are again on the hills.

Do not lengthen the quarrel while there is an opportunity of escaping.