Quotes About Peace

As long as there are slaughter houses there will always be battlefields.

The Kingdom of God is Within You,

I don't want to prove anything; I merely want to live, to do no one harm but myself. I have the right to do that, haven't I?

Rest, nature, books, music…such is my idea of happiness.

I felt a wish never to leave that room - a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of mind might never change.

All were happy -- plants, birds, insects and children. But grown-up people -- adult men and women -- never left off cheating and tormenting themselves and one another. It was not this spring morning which they considered sacred and important, not the beauty of God's world, given to all creatures to enjoy -- a beauty which inclines the heart to peace, to harmony and to love.

But I wasn't surprised, or scared, or even angry. I accepted it like a friendly wind, come to fly me home. It's okay, I thought. And it was.

Lately I've been falling asleep with my headphones on, the music paving over my thoughts.

My idea of heaven is to be hunting with you in some beautiful park with mountains like here at home but where we won't need guns or prey but we will just walk together arm in arm in this good world and be by ourselves always together forever and a day.

You might say a prayer or two while you're waiting.

Planinski vrhunci su posebna mjesta koja mogu dati energiju svakome tko boravi na njima.

a pleasant reverie

Rest requires us to give up any ideas about control: controlling our experiences, controlling our feelings and controlling how we rest. Rest is fundamentally effortless and detached from experience.

She had accepted the limitations of her life. It was this anguish, this contentment which created her grace.

The need to fear such things was ended

She preferred to lie up by the dunes with the waves bursting, to listen while they crashed like the final chords of a symphony except they went on and on. There was nothing as fine as that.

But to be close to a child, for whom one spent everything, whose life was protected and nourished by one's own, to have that child beside one, at peace, was the real, the deepest, the only joy.

The great dividend is not necessarily outscoring an opponent. The guaranteed dividend is the complete peace of mind gained in knowing you did everything within your power, physically, mentally, and emotionally, to bring forth your full potential. – John Wooden, legendary UCLA basketball coach

To be silent is to be beautiful. Stars do not make a noise.

Ne regardez pas en arrière avec colère, ni devant avec crainte, mais autour de vous avec conscience.

Man is troubled by what might be called the Dog Wish, a strange and involved compulsion to be as happy and carefree as a dog.

Let us not go back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

A man who uses force is afraid of reasoning. ~ Kenyan Proverb

There can be no peace without understanding. ~ Senegalese Proverb