Quotes About Peace

When I shut my eyes in the warm bath, I feel as if I'm floating inside a cloud.

If I am honest...I will say that I simply need a warm, dry place to live. I want enough food to eat, clothes, and shoes that will protect me from the cold. I want calmness and order. More than anything, I want to feel safe in my bed.

She stayed as quiet as she could. This, she found, was the trick: you didn't have to react to each little thing. You could just exist. Let your mind simmer over a low fire.

for the first time since the fire, my worries are gone. I feel a joy so strong it's almost painful—a knife's edge of joy.

I skip down the driveway, hurry up the road, linger on the bridge for a moment, looking down at the reflection of the sky like mercury on the dark water, the foaming white suds near the rocks. Ice glistens on tree branches, frost webs over dried grasses in a sparkling net. The evergreens, dusted with the light snow that fell last night, are like a forest of Christmas trees. For the first time, I am struck by the austere beauty of this place.

What I couldn't see is that sometimes the healing is not in the forgetting but in the letting go.

the haunted always take refuge in stillness.

Freedom and simplicity are close companions; simplicity teaches us the ways to release the layers of complexity and confusion that blind us.

Sleeping at last, the trouble and turmoil over,Sleeping at last, the struggle and horror past,Cold and white, out of sight of friend and of lover,Sleeping at last.

When I am dead, my dearest,Sing no sad songs for me;Plant thou no roses at my head,Nor shady cypress tree.Be the green grass above meWith showers and dewdrops wet;And if thou wilt, rememberAnd if thou wilt, forget.

Surely if men are sufficient masters of things to build a howitzer they ought to know better than to destroy each other with it. — Stewart Gore-Browne, from Arras, 1916.

I love the solitude of being on a plane and finally getting to read an entire book and being left alone.

Silence is more musical than any song.

One day in the country Is worth a month in town

When I Am Dead, My Dearest When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me; Plant thou no roses at my head, Nor shady cypress-tree: Be the green grass above me With showers and dewdrops wet; And if thou wilt, remember, And if thou wilt, forget. I shall not see the shadows, I shall not feel the rain; I shall not hear the nightingale Sing on, as if in pain: And dreaming through the twilight That doth not rise nor set, Haply I may remember, And haply may forget.

Love came down at Christmas, Love all lovely, Love Divine; Love was born at Christmas; Star and angels gave the sign.

Golden head by golden head, Like two pigeons in one nest Folded in each other's wings, They lay down in their curtained bed: Like two blossoms on one stem, Like two flakes of new-fall'n snow, Like two wands of ivory Tipped with gold for awful kings. Moon and stars gazed in at them, Wind sang to them lullaby, Lumbering owls forbore to fly, Not a bat flapped to and fro Round their rest: Cheek to cheek and breast to breast Locked together in one nest.

Beautiful, delightful, noble, memorable, as is the world, I yet am well content in my shady crevice.

Rest, rest, for evermore Upon a messy shore; Rest, rest at the heart's core Till time shall cease: Sleep that no pain shall wake, Night that no morn shall break Till joy shall overtake Her perfect peace.

I wasn't going to argue with you. Why ever would you think that? I never argue." Lucian smiled at her. She was so small, it amazed him she was such a strong person. "Of course you do not argue. What was I thinking? Go to sleep, honey, and allow my poor body to rest." "I'm already asleep. You're the one gabbing.

silence across the field. When they reached the edge of the forest, Claire's anxiety faded. It really would be easier

I think I'm basically one and the same person I was in the earlier part of my life--perhaps calmer, more accepting and certainly happier.

when someone apologizes, you have to forgive them.

All is in divine order.