Quotes About Peace

You ask why I make my home in the mountain forest, and I smile, and am silent, and even my soul remains quiet: it lives in the other world which no one owns. The peach trees blossom, The water flows.

The birds have vanished into the sky and now the last cloud drains away. We sit together the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains.

I write just because the fire of my emotion is burning. Had I not, I would not have been able to find peace.

O los Otori consiuen la victoria, o bien serán derrotados definitivamente y desaparecerán. La paz no reinará mientras sian combatiendo en las fronteras.

Your lands will stretch from sea to sea,' she said finally. 'But peace comes at the price of bloodshed. Five battles will buy you peace, four to win and one to lose. Many must die but you yourself are safe from death, except at the hands of your own son.

Coloqué mi cuchillo junto al colchón y me introduje bajo la manta sin molestarme siquiera en quitarme la ropa.

But every time she tried yoga she found herself silently chanting her own mantra: I'm so boooored, I'm so boooored.

As she swam she gloried in the fact that there was nowhere to be, nothing to do, no one to worry about. No jazz pickup or karate drop-off, no homework to supervise, no birthday gifts to buy, no doctors' appointments to book; the endless multitude of teeny-tiny details that made up her life. Each obligation on its own seemed laughably easy. It was the sheer volume that threatened to bury her.

That was the secret of a happy marriage. Step away from the rage.

She was floating, arms outspread, water lapping her body, breathing in a summery fragrance of salt and coconut.

she thought about that too much and all it implied she could tap into a great well of rage, so she didn't think about it. That was the secret of a happy marriage: step away from the rage.

Somehow she knew there would be an unspoken truce on their unspoken battle over God knew what when they were old. They could both surrender to their innate grumpiness. It was going to be a lovely relief.

going to sit on the beach, eat ice creams, and work out whatever the problem is.

It wasn't that she'd found any solutions or experienced any earth-shattering revelations, but the act of observing her looping thoughts seemed slow them down until at last they came to a complete stop, and she'd found that for moments of time she thought... nothing. Nothing at all. Her mind was quite empty. And those moments were lovely.

Every morning I worry that somebody I know will be killed in a terrorist attack that day. That means the terrorists have won, Ben tells me. He doesn't understand that I'm fighting off the terrorists by worrying about them. It's my own personal War on Terror.

She was busy thinking about the concept of forgiveness. It was such a lovely, generous idea when it wasn't linked to something awful that needed forgiving.

Doing this always calmed her. It was like imagining the protective walls of an impenetrable fortress. She

Do not engage. Remove yourself from the emotional minefield.

was nervous, when she didn't

The simplicity of her life seemed so compelling.

No fights. Life would be calm and uncomplicated.

just stop thinking about it, you can't change what you did or didn't do, what you should and shouldn't have done.

He avoided confrontation. He just wanted everyone to be happy. The

And she loved a good cry! Afterwards she always felt serene and slightly sleepy.