Quotes About Peace

Then the sun finally comes up, and such 3:00 A.M. thoughts are banished, as they should be.   She

I need some isolation, it's necessary to me, that's just who I am. I need to be left alone.

She wondered when her daughter would realise that for the most part, people weren't that different. Young and old, male or female, pretty much everyone she knew wanted the same things: The wanted to feel peace in their hearts, they wanted a life without turmoil, they wanted to be happy. The difference, she thought, was that most young people seemed to think that those things lay somewhere in the future. While most older people believed that they lay in the past.

The moment contained all her best hopes and desires. She needed and wanted very little: to be able to gaze upon his face every day for the rest of her life. The place did not matter, nor the conventions of church vows or family alliances or noble ties. He was her love, completely and utterly. As he sank down into her, Meghan gave a little sigh like a moan of surrender but it was not that. It was a sigh of peace, of completion, of a joining that made whole her world.

Only in a place like this do earth and sky come together in such a way that they bridge into one, and in such a place a person could put up her arms and find herself in heaven.

She swishes her arms back and forth. "Okay." Her voice is small and quiet like a mourning dove, like the soft gray on a mourning dove's back.

Guerra o indiferencia, no se sabe cuál de las dos es más fácil de lidiar.

Así, quieto y ausente, estoy bien. En el color blanco encuentro el reposo. Déjame dormir. Déjame flotar. Sólo quiero navegar en las aguas insípidas del olvido.

porque nada enardece más al intranquilo que le digan tranquilízate, nada lo preocupa tanto como que lo inviten a despreocuparse, nada contraría tanto sus impulsos de vuelo como los aterrizados oficios de un samaritano.

Los que no perdonan atraviesan un río de aguas malsanas y se quedan a vivir en la orilla de allá.

I really am a woman at peace.

If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.

How do we best cultivate a quiet inner spirit? Do we attend to what feeds and expands our soul? What helps us focus on God? Where is our sacred space? Have we made a cell in our home, at the ocean, or in our favorite park? It is that place where we are away and alone.

Nicholas Benteen stopped trying to pretend that he could ignore the determined creature who'd violated his privacy and his peace of mind, the same creature who'd unknowingly forced him to acknowledge the fact that he craved a woman with satiny–soft skin, a gentle, knowing touch, and the kind of passion that could restore his soul and bring his heart back to life again.

Be a sparrow, I told myself. Be silent and fly away. No one will bother you if you disappear.

I was floating on a river of calm, a leaf on a current.

Silence was the key to self-preservation.

Sara lay back on the cold rock floor and beckoned for him."I'll stay in here until you're starving," she said passionately,"until you understand you can trust me,that I give to you unconditionally,out of the purest love.I'll stay here until this cage becomes a place of peace,of pleasure-not torment."Her eyebrow lifted."I will stay in here until you can't resist me.

El problema es que ella piensa todo el tiempo, noche y día. Su pensamiento hace ruido, la molesta, la «sobrehabita». Le encantaría llegar a un pacto con él para tener por fin un poco de tranquilidad. Pensar sin más. Dejarse llevar por su tendencia natural y no «pensar en».

calling out to the world to forget everything except the sublime.

Each note floated over the listeners like a feather held aloft by the breath of angels.

She daydreamed and made up stories in her head, and the cloister and solitude of the pieta suited her.

You can't start worrying about what's going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what's happening now.

In the crisis moments, I was desperate to narrate. As I moved somewhere else spiritually, out of crisis and into a new odd calm, I was more peaceably floating through whatever was happening. I wanted to record moments, but not so intently to tell stories.