Quotes About Peace

for? There was a moment of silence down below, and

I'm tired of fighting … I can't fight any more." Those were his last words.

She's a little different after two thousand years, that's all," Darkstalker said hurriedly. "This is better, though. She always worried about the future too much. Now she won't worry and we can just be happy and everything will be fine.

If you can solve your problem, Then what is the need of worrying? If you cannot solve it, Then what is the use of worrying?

Even warriors put their spears down on sundays.

A man's pillow is his best medicine

Most men find [peace] entirely unlike what they had expected - like love...

No, no, no,' said Stephen. 'I deprecate violence. My part is to heal rather than to kill; or at least to kill with kindly intent.

That was what he wanted, to be baked dry and hard, to feel the vaporous worries evaporating one by one, to know finally that all the damp little doubts and hesitations that covered the floor of his being were curling up and expiring in the great furnace-blast of the sun.

If she could only give up, relax, and live in the perfect knowledge that there was no hope.

Surrender the grasping disposition of selfishness, and you will attain to that calm state of mind which conveys perfect peace, goodness, and wisdom.

John Smith: Mankind doesn't need warfare and bloodshed to prove itself. Everyday life can provide honour and valour. Let's hope that from now on this country can find its heroes in smaller places. In the most ordinary of deeds.

The battle is not the same as the quarrel.

There is greater comfort in the substance of silence than in the answer to a question

At the root of all war is fear: not so much the fear men have of one another as the fear they have of everything," Merton declared.

the ancient Egyptians prescribed walking through a garden as a cure for the mad.

This was naturally a great incentive, and possibly indeed the main cause of the second big change, industrialization. A great deal has been written about the causes of the Industrial Revolution. But surely a necessary, if not sufficient, condition was that people who made fortunes be able to enjoy them in peace.

A mountaintop is not simply an elevation, but an island, a world within a world, a place out of place.

Now we're known less for snipers' nests / than nests of singing birds

So We'll Go No More a-Roving So, we'll go no more a-roving So late into the night, Though the heart be still as loving, And the moon be still as bright. For the sword outwears its sheath, And the soul outwears the breast, And the heart must pause to breathe, And love itself have rest. Though the night was made for loving, And the day returns too soon, Yet we'll go no more a-roving By the light of the moon.

Kindness is not an illusion and violence is not a rule. The true resting state of human affairs is not represented by a man hacking his neighbor into pieces with a machete. That is a sick aberration. No, the true state of human affairs is life as it ought to be lived.

Our days are so few, our existences so complicated. As long as we're breathing we shouldn't further complicate our lives.

Human beings were designed to live sanely, and sanity always returns.

Soon would come the night in which there was no more work – not the work of the hands, nor the work of the mind, nor the work of the heart.