Quotes About Peace

And if reading could banish the idea for even half an hour, it was something gained.

I shall be glad to have the library to myself as soon as may be.

Wherever you are you should always be contented, but especially at home, because there you must spend the most of your time.

I am worn out with civility. I have been talking incessantly all night, and with nothing to say. But with you there may be peace. You will not want to be talked to. Let us have the luxury of silence.

In his library he had been always sure of leisure and tranquility; and though prepared, as he told Elizabeth, to meet with folly and conceit in every other room in the house, he was used to be free from them there

Todos debemos procurar estar satisfechos allí donde nos encontremos, y más aún en nuestro propio hogar, que es donde más tiempo estamos obligados a permanecer.

Oh! Miss Woodhouse, the comfort of being sometimes alone!

There is nothing like stying at home for real comfort

But it was her business to be satisfied—and certainly her temper to be happy; and all was soon right again.

Nothing was so likely to do her good as a little quiet cheerfulness at home.

Cuando contemplo una noche como esta, tengo la sensación de que ni la maldad ni el dolor pueden existir en el mundo; y es seguro que de las dos cosas habría menos si se atendiera más a la sublimidad de la naturaleza y la humanidad llevara su mirada un poco más allá del círculo de mezquindades en que se encierra, contemplando un espectáculo como éste.

All badinage apart, I don't think you or I very likely to lose our gaiety or our peace of mind for any male creature breathing.

Every thing was safe enough and she smiled over the many anxious feelings she had wasted on the subject.

Family squabbling is the greatest evil of all

All his wishes centred in domestic comfort and the quiet of private life.

I like to live spaciously, but rather plainly, in large halls with great spaces and quiet libraries. I like to wake in the morning with the sense of a great, silent garden round me.

forgiveness is how we unchain ourselves from the past.

Some people say... that violence and war are inevitable. I say rubbish: Our brains are fully capable of controlling instinctive behavior. We're not very good at it though, are we?

How healing it was to be back at Gombe again, and by myself with the chimpanzees and their forest. I had left the busy, materialistic world so full of greed and selfishness and, for a little while, could feel myself, as in the early days, a part of nature. I felt very much in tune with the chimpanzees, for I was spending time with them not to observe, but simple because I needed their company, undemanding and free of pity.

People say to me so often, 'Jane how can you be so peaceful when everywhere around you people want books signed, people are asking these questions and yet you seem peaceful,' and I always answer that it is the peace of the forest that I carry inside.

If we live in a society with a reasonable standard of living and some degree of social justice, the generous and peaceful aspects of our nature are likely to prevail; while in a society of racial discrimination and economic injustice, violence will thrive.

and some degree of social justice, the generous and peaceful aspects of our nature are likely to prevail; while in a society of racial discrimination and economic injustice, violence will thrive.

Sometimes not thinking too hard is the easiest thing of all.

She doesn't think, doesn't worry, has no anxiety. She feels no pressure when she is in her garden. She can weed for hours, losing all sense of time until her back starts to hurt and she remembers all the other things she has to do.