Quotes About Peace

If no one fought except on his own conviction, there would be no wars,

If everybody fought for nothing but his own convictions, there wouldn't be any wars,

How can one feel well when one is suffering in moral sense? Can any sensitive person find peace of mind nowadays?

During this journey it was as if he again thought over his whole life and reached the same old comforting and hopeless conclusion: that there was no need for him to start anything, that he had to live out his life without doing evil, without anxiety, and without wishing for anything.

If you look for perfection, you will never be content.

War is not courtesy but the most horrible thing in life; and we ought to understand that, and not play at war.

Acaso não somos todos nós largados neste mundo só para odiarmos uns aos outros e, portanto, para atormentarmos a nós mesmos e aos outros?

Perhaps because I rejoice in what I have, and don't fret for what I haven't,

How was it I did not see that lofty sky before? And how happy I am to have found it at last! Yes! All is vanity, all falsehood, except that infinite sky. There is nothing, nothing, but that. But even it does not exist, there is nothing but quiet and peace. Thank God! . . .

Es nek? negribu pier?d?t, vienk?rši- es gribu dz?vot; nedar?t ?auna nevienam citam, iz?emot sevi pašu. Uz to man ir ties?bas, vai ne.?

War is not courtesy but the most horrible thing in life; and we ought to understand that and not play at war. We ought to accept this terrible necessity sternly and seriously. It all lies in that: get rid of falsehood and let war be war and not a game.

I am like a hungry man who has been given food. He may be cold, his clothes maybe tattered, he may feel ashamed, but he is not unhappy. Me unhappy? No, this is my happiness.

con amor siempre se es feliz, puesto que la felicidad está en uno mismo. Egor

I humbly beg you to leave me in peace. That's the only favor I ask of my gracious brothers.—Nikolai Levin.

La verdadera religion no necesita de templos, ni de iconos, ni de salmos, ni de reuniones multidinarias. Al contrario, la verdadera religion entra en el corazón únicamente en el silencio y la soledad

un trabajo que, según parece, es de provecho; luego, el descanso, la naturaleza, los libros, la música, el amor al prójimo; esa es la felicidad para mí y no pienso que haya nada superior a ello.

Not as we ran, shouting and fighting, not at all as the gunner and the Frenchman with frightened and angry faces struggled for the mop: how differently do those clouds glide across that lofty infinite sky! How was it I did not see that lofty sky before? And how happy I am to have found it at last! Yes! All is vanity, all falsehood, except that infinite sky. There is nothing, nothing, but that. But even it does not exist, there is nothing but quiet and peace. Thank God!

If the Almighty in his mercy allows us to settle peace among the christian leaders, we shall press on not only to destroy completely the bad seeds, but also to expand the territories of Christ, and, supported by these achievements, we shall go forward, with God favouring his own purposes, to the most holy expedition against the infidels, the desire for which is deeply fixed in our heart.

La vida es siempre bella si sabemos mirarla con ojos apacibles, con luz de un alma en paz

If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness.

Era preciso, pues, buscar el olvido en el sueño de la vida.

There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.

This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.

GIFT You tell me that silence is nearer to peace than poems but if for my gift I brought you silence (for I know silence) you would say This is not silence this is another poem and you would hand it back to me