Quotes About Peace

Sometimes war is necessary in order that we can finally find peace. Sometimes fear is necessary for the soul to find its path again.

The search for peace is a form of prayer that generates light and heat.Forget about yourself for awhile and understand that in that light lies wisdom and in that heat lies compassion.

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone, and that's where I renew my springs that never dry up.

When foreigners come into a nation, the best way is to make them no longer foreign. That is to say, let us marry our young together and let there be children. War is costly, love is cheap.

If the belly is full," she said, "if we could know that it would always be full, men would be idle and laugh and play games like children, and then we would have peace and happiness.

Can one spit on a smiling face?" he inquired; or he said, "Vengeance cannot last a night's sleep.

It is better to live than to die, and peace is better than war, and though there are some who deny this as robbers do, the truth remains what it is.

Then the good land did again its healing work and the sun shone on him and healed him and the warm winds of summer wrapped him about with peace.

He could have been lonely except that he was never lonely, since he had always been alone.

and comforted by his greater wisdom he fell asleep again deeply in the darkness and the stillness.

This country of his was not like some others he had heard of, where only in war was there work enough to be done. He had often sat listening in the tea shop to those who talked of things they had seen in foreign countries, and this he held was a main difference, that in foreign countries war was a business, but here it had never been.

It is but another war somewhere. Who knows what all this fighting to and fro is about? But so it has been since I was a lad and so will it be after I am dead and well I know it.

Pakdusan, Mount of Eternal Snow

If you would only stop thinking, you would be much happier.

All was well with the land and when all was well with the land then everything was well.

Yes, their ancients had taught them that no good man would be a soldier and that the warlike man was the least of men and not to be respected, and so they had all believed.

We can spend our whole lives escaping from the monsters of our minds. (36)

NOT CAUSING HARM obviously includes not killing or robbing or lying to people. It also includes not being aggressive—not being aggressive with our actions, our speech, or our minds. Learning not to cause harm to ourselves or others is a basic Buddhist teaching on the healing power of nonaggression. Not harming ourselves or others in the beginning, not harming ourselves or others in the middle, and not harming ourselves or others in the end is the basis of enlightened society.

Scrambling for security has never brought anything but momentary joy.

It helps to remember that our spiritual practice is not about accomplishing anything—not about winning or losing—but about ceasing to struggle and relaxing as it is.

Resentment, bitterness, and holding a grudge prevent us from seeing and hearing and tasting and delighting.

Impermanence is a principle of harmony. When we don't struggle against it, we are in harmony with reality.

You want it your own way. You'd just like to have a little peace; you'd like to have a little happiness, you know, just "gimme a break!" But the more you think that way, the more you try to get life to come out so that it will always suit you, the more your fear of other people and what's outside your room grows.

When thoughts come up, touch them very lightly, like a feather touching a bubble. Let the whole thing be soft and gentle, but at the same time precise.