Quotes About Peace

I feel slow. I think slowly, I talk slowly, I react slowly. In the blur and rush of everything around me, I am more mindful. The mindfulness has grown quietly and surely, perhaps more a result of my slow, sparse environment in Kanglung than my own efforts. I can see how it would evaporate here without a consistent daily practice. I

I need to be alone. After a full day of talking, smiling, listening, showing, nodding, translating, I want to be alone. I want simply to come home, close the door, and sit in silence, gathering up the bits of myself that have come loose. I want to think, or not think. I want to rest.

Many Years before without the New Technologies Life was more Peaceful and Simpler.

Our Mind need relax to reach goals.

4427Our Mind need relax to reach goals.

Our eyes can discover the peace and quiet, but that's no guarantee of reality.

Whenever he had a problem, he found that being near the water put things in perspective.

Saddam's politics was the politics of the thug, of violence from the outset of his reign. Realism suggests that some people are not going to be tractable in response to purely peaceable overtures. Indeed, it certainly appears that some individuals, including notably Saddam Hussein, will cheerfully help themselves to a yard for every inch offered by well-meaning peacemakers. When we are dealing with customers as tough as that, there is no alternative to being tough ourselves.

A peace washed over me when I knew God had marked me as HIS crazy person.

A soft answer turns away wrath and a gentle tongue is the tree of life, but a snarky Twitter Bible only leads to trouble.

True peace is not merely the absence of war, it is the presence of justice.

One word from you shall silence me forever.

Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.

Let us have the luxury of silence.

Reflection must be reserved for solitary hours; whenever she was alone, she gave way to it as the greatest relief; and not a day went by without a solitary walk, in which she might indulge in all the delight of unpleasant recollections.

When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world; and there certainly would be less of both if the sublimity of Nature were more attended to, and people were carried more out of themselves by contemplating such a scene.

her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give.

Where the waters do agree, it is quite wonderful the relief they give.

she had nothing to do but to forgive herself and be happier than ever…

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

each found her greatest safety in silence…

An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous.

She could not be complying, she dreaded being quarrelsome; her heroism reached only to silence.

I think we are a great deal better employed, sitting comfortably here among ourselves, and doing nothing.