Quotes About Peace

Valójában, Szókratész, nincs ellenséged, csak te magad. Békélj meg magaddal, és nem lesz senki, aki legyÅ'zhet. És senki, akit te kívánnál legyÅ'zni.

Life is a sea that brings waves of change, welcome or not. As the warrior-emperor Marcus Aurelius wrote, "Time is a river of passing events. No sooner is one thing brought to sight than it's swept away, and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away." The Buddha, leaving behind both his protected childhood and ascetic renunciation, and having attained illumination, observed, "Everything that begins also ends. Make peace with this and all will be well.

Those who ignore history's lessons in the ultimate folly of war are forced to do more than relive them Ã¢â'¬Â¦ they may be forced to die by them.

Father thought that the first stage of human happiness was a 'fellowship with essence

that we shall never surrender . . . never surrender or waver or bend to lesser voices or more comfortable impulses . . . never waver until the victory is ours, aggression is undone, and the peace is won. I thank you.

The beauty of being dead, he knows now, is that there is no pain and no sense of self.

she released the world for the land of infant sleep.

I was getting used to the caustic voice in my head. It and I had made a peace when I realized that it wasn't urging me to lie down and die, just critiquing my inadequate efforts to stay alive.

What do you think of the war, M. Severn? [...] What can one think of war? I said, tasting the wine again. It was quite good, though nothing in the Web could match my memories of French Bordeaux. War does not call for judgment, I said, merely survival.

Glorious beyond compare is the heavenly city. There, victory is truth, dignity is holiness, peace is happiness, life is eternity" (ll:29).

Always lists to be made, as if writing items in neat vertical rows might stave off randomness and chaos.

it feels as if mountain pose is the most challenging of all yoga poses. To be still. To be grounded. To claim one's place in the world.

late at night once

This is why therapists go to such lengths to urge their anxious patients away from intellectualization: The first step toward peace is disarmament.

I don't think that we have any right to have a sort of generalized criticism, if not hatred, of the people who hated us, because then we only descend to the level of those people who persecuted us for so many years. New

From this moment I began to conclude in my mind that it was possible for me to be more happy in this forsaken, solitary condition that it was possible I should ever have been in any other particular state in the world; and with this thought I was going to give thanks to God for bringing me to this place.

In the first place , I was removed from all the wickedness of the world here. I had neither the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, or the pride of life. I had nothing to covet; for I had all that I was now capable of enjoying.

tis evident death will reconcile us all; on the other side the grave we shall be all brethren again.

A man that coveted a retreat in this world might as agreeably spend his time... in Dorchester as in any town I know in England.

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, And wisdom to know the difference.

Existen dos tipos de miedos, señala el Dalai Lama: el miedo irreal, que nos impele innecesariamente hacia un estado agitado de cavilaciones baldías, y el tipo útil, que nos hace cautos o nos activa y prepara de cara a una amenaza esperada.

tipo de «calma» que percibe en la compasión se entremezcla con una mente lúcida y un corazón afectuoso.

When we stop fighting against death, we are able to wake up to our lives.

A person who has not made peace with his losses is likely to accept gambles that would be unacceptable to him otherwise.