Quotes About Peace

I realize now that it was a certain apathy, rather than peace, that turned my acts and my desires to ash.

Yes, she was happy inside her neurosis. War neurosis.

In my interior I find the silence I seek.

What sustains me is to know that I shall always fabricate a god in the image I require in order to sleep peacefully, and that others will quietly pretend that we are all justified, and that there is nothing to be done. All this because we are astute by nature and the bastions of something. And above all, because we try not to understand.

Fui al encuentro de mí. Tranquila. alegre, plenitud sin fulminación. Simplemente yo soy yo. Y tú eres tú. Es vasto, va a durar.

I always wanted to reach a state of peace and non-struggle. I thought that was the ideal state. But it so happens that — that am I really me without my struggle? No, I don't know how to have peace.

What ruins happiness is fear

Listen: I let you be, therefore let me be.

Since the state of grace exists permanently: we are always saved. All the world is in a state of grace.

And I am in the world as free and slender as a deer on the plain. I get up as soft as a breath of air, raise my sleepy flower head, my feet light, I cross fields beyond the earth, world, time, God.

Escrevo e assim me livro de mim e posso então descansar.

How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry for the person rather than angry with him. You tend to have nothing left to say about it all.

We can't make the external world become peaceful; we can only become peace.

What keeps my heart awake is colorful silence.

I must have flowers, always and always.

Here I am surrounded by the things I love. I spend my time in the open, on the beach in stormy weather or when the fishing boats put out [...] In the evenings, my dear friend, there is a warm fire in my cottage, and the cosiness of a small family [...] I am now enjoying a spell of quiet, free of chores. Ideally I should like to stay in a peaceful nook like this for ever.

La mer chante à bouche fermée

En resumen, no os enfadéis, o por lo menos, no os turbéis porque os habéis turbado, no os alteréis porque os habéis alterado, no os inquietéis porque esas molestas pasiones os han inquietado; tomad vuestro corazón y ponedlo suavemente en manos de nuestro Señor (Carta a una señora, 833). Haced que vuestro corazón vuelva a estar en paz con vos misma, aunque estéis tan llena de miserias» (Carta 186).

Para combatir con mayor eficacia el desasosiego que es tan perjudicial, San Francisco de Sales procura descubrir cuál es la causa ordinaria, por no decir única, de esta falta de paz. Es el amor propio, el buscarse a sí mismo.

This is something that I cherish. Once in a friend's home I came across this blessing, and took it down in shorthand ... it says something I like to live with Oh Thou, who dwellest in so many homes, possess Thyself of this. Bless the life that is sheltered here. Grant that trust and peace and comfort abide within, and that love and life and usefulness may go out from this home forever.

Pero el afecto necesita un reposo del que la política no dispone.

The courage to put an end to war, to see the abysmal stupidity of it, is certainly no less than that needed to start one.

Constructive ends can never give absolute moral justification to destructive means

We must learn how to not allow the enemy to have a handhold of our joy and our peace.