Quotes About Peace

I have come to the conclusion that there is only one way under high heaven to get the best of an argument— and that is to avoid it. Avoid it as you would avoid rattlesnakes and earthquakes.

Let's never try to get even with our enemies, because if we do we will hurt ourselves far more than we hurt them. Let's do as General Eisenhower does: let's never waste a minute thinking about people we don't like.

there is only one way under high heaven to get the best of an argument - and that is to avoid it .

Those who do not know how to fight worry die young.

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.

one of the worst features about worrying is that it destroys our ability to concentrate.

My mother always said two people can't fight if one person doesn't want to

I knew, of course, that I had nothing to worry about—personally, at least. But

I once asked General Eisenhower's son, John, if his father ever nourished resentments. "No," he replied, "Dad never wastes a minute thinking about people he doesn't like.

By talking to yourself every hour of the day, you can direct yourself to think thoughts of courage and happiness, thoughts of power and peace. By talking to yourself about the things you have to be grateful for, you can fill your mind with thoughts that soar and sing.

Lincoln, "with malice toward none, with charity for all," held

Hatred is never ended by hatred but by love

The Nation has not yet found peace from its sins; the freedman has not yet found in freedom his promised land.

V. THE COMING OF THE LORD How the Negro became free because the North could not win the Civil War if he remained in slavery. And how arms in his hands, and the prospect of arms in a million more black hands, brought peace and emancipation to America.

Question: During the week following Pearl Harbor, the incidence of suicide declined dramatically across the nation. Was this decline a consequence of (1) A rise in patriotic fervor and a sense of purpose? (2) A new sense of interest (e.g., something, even war, is better than nothing. Peace in the 1930s was like nothing)?

If I could just write it down in a piece of paper, then maybe she could get a decent night's sleep, eat a little of her dinner. Maybe she could have a minute's worth of peace.

For all I know God may be nothing more or nothing less than the sound of the moving water outside your window.

The key to serenity is forgiveness.

The key to peace within my soul, he said, was to cast aside my bitterness and resentment

They do not sweat and whine about their condition, they do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, they do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things, not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago.

Have you ever thought how much is in the negative quality of nature—the negative—the simply loafing, doing nothing, worrying about nothing, living out of doors and getting fresh air, plenty of sleep—letting everything else take care of itself?

I exist as I am, that is enough, If no other in the world be aware I sit content, And if each and all be aware I sit content.

No fumes, no ennui, no more complaints <...> and nothing exterior shall ever take command of me.

I exist as I am, that is enough, If not other in the world be aware I sit content, And if each and all be aware I sit content.