Quotes About Peace

I don't even hate books anymore.

Going nowhere … isn't about turning your back on the world; it's about stepping away now and then so that you can see the world more clearly and love it more deeply.

The first star tonight insanely high, virgin, calm. I have one hour of peace before the documented planets burn me down.

MY THESIS, in simplest terms, is: Let anyone do anything he pleases, so long as it is peaceful; the role of government, then, is to keep the peace...Keeping the peace means no more than prohibiting persons from unpeaceful actions...When government goes beyond this, that is, when government prohibits peaceful actions, such prohibitions themselves are, prima facie, unpeaceful.

What a pity it is that war, with its terrible suffering and devastation, should often be more vivid than peace. In war, your comrades mean everything to you, life is unsure and thus precious, and you know that the sword is raised above you. Now it is peace. Your friends still mean everything, life is still precious, and look--why didn't you notice it?--there's the sword, still raised above you.

Without meditation, contemplation and skillful action, the anger lurking in your mind can become the (d)anger within your life." Leonard Perlmutter (Ram Lev)

My goal is GOD HIMSELF. Not joy, not peace, not even blessing but HIMSELF...my GOD.

He sought out cold waterfalls, small thick forests, and thought about nothing at all.

Men are always murderers, and their calmness and generosity is the calmness of a well-fed animal, that knows itself out of danger.

But there is no calm soul in Russia.

The Antichrists are antichristing each other with antichristly ferocity so I must go and make peace.

I am never angry at anything that is natural—

Kids want nothing more than for all the important adults in their life to get along.

One day it will become exceedingly clear what the best course of action is for you. This truth will be so unmistakable that a sense of peace will pervade you. The voices in your head that have been driving you mad will give way to a deep and profound knowing. But just like expecting beautiful flowers to grow in a garden filled with pernicious weeds, it's important to clear the way for our wisdom to emerge.

Indian activist, Mahatma Gandhi, who was a leader and guru, had a HUNGER for peace and justice. One of his sayings was, "Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Better a dry crust eaten in peace than a house filled with feasting—and conflict. Proverbs 17:1

My head was spinning but I made myself go to sleep by imagining that I was not a real person at all but the song in the throat of a sparrow.

He had seen them bowing down low in islam, that supple word whose associated meanings in Arabic ripple out to include peace and wholeness, but which means above all submission. True, it was not a forced submission but a willed and willing acceptance.

I close my eyes and melt in its embrace, basking in the sweetest balm of forgiveness: that for which one need not even ask.

Dear,' he said, 'I'm not complaining. We don't live in a magnificent age, but I've done my best to make life magnificent as I see it – to live my ideal of the happy warrior. But you made that possible. You made me seek and fight for the tremendous things. Battle and sudden death – yes, but battle and sudden death in the name of peace and life and love. You know I love you, Pat .

Sometimes God calms the storm, but sometimes God lets the storm rage and calms His child.

Do you have to overthink everything! Can't you just enjoy life for once!

All across earth there were those listening and waiting, isolated and lonely, despised outcasts of the earth. First the lights would go out— dynamite or earthquake, it did not matter. All sources of electrical power generation would be destroyed. Darkness was the ally of the poor. [...] With the return of Indian land would come the return of justice, followed by peace.

AFTER THE NIGHT rain, a blue mist rose above the rolling green llanos from dawn until noon. A hundred miles in the distance, the high mountains were still hidden in clouds, and it had been easy for David to imagine he was Adam in the Garden. For as far as he could see to the south and the west, there were no jet vapor trails, no engine sounds, no glitter of metal or glass, no dogs barking, no human voice; only the insects whirring and the calls of birds.