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Quotes About Peace

This is heaven. You can stop praying now.
~ Jhonen Vasquez
War will bring the revolution; revolution will stop the war
~ Jhumpa Lahiri
He learned not to mind the silences.
~ Jhumpa Lahiri
In the pool I lose myself. My thoughts merge and flow. Everything—my body, my heart, the universe—seems tolerable when I'm protected by water and nothing touches me. All I think about is the effort. Below my body there's a restless play of dark and light projected onto the bottom of the pool, that drifts away like smoke.
~ Jhumpa Lahiri
He longed for sleep, but it would not immerse him; that night the waters he sought for his repose were deep enough to wade in, but not to swim.
~ Jhumpa Lahiri
His favorite moments were when he was alone, or felt alone. Lying in bed in the morning, watching sunlight flickering like a restless bird on the wall. He
~ Jhumpa Lahiri
He was a hermit; true peace, for him, meant staying indoors, staying put in a familiar place.
~ Jhumpa Lahiri
He waited for chaotic games to end, for shouts to subside. His favorite moments were when he was alone, or felt alone. Lying in bed in the morning, watching sunlight flickering like a restless bird on the wall.
~ Jhumpa Lahiri
The fact that the yellow chintz armchair in the living room clashed with the blue-and-maroon Turkish carpet no longer bothered her.
~ Jhumpa Lahiri
Ulkona on valtava melu: meren ja tuulen pauhu, kuohunta joka peittää alleen kaiken, ja minä mietin, kuinka luonnon levottomuus voikin olla niin tyynnyttävää.
~ Jhumpa Lahiri
Non-proliferation will only work if all states are willing to cooperate, and that will only happen if all feel they are being treated fairly.
~ John Bruton
We must seek, above all, a world of peace; a world in which peoples dwell together in mutual respect and work together in mutual regard.
~ John F. Kennedy
When we let God be God and work through us, we experience both a sense of serenity and excitement.
~ Julia Cameron
I don't ever unwind. My work is my peace. If I'm not working I'm not at peace.
~ Katerina Graham
You work that you may keep peace with the earth and the soul of the earth.
~ Khalil Gibran
I've always been able to let stuff go when I'm done with work.
~ Kyra Sedgwick
To retreat after a work well done is Heaven's Way.
~ Laozi
A calm environment is for after I finish work.
~ Lee Child
If they are truly nonviolent, they must also realize that civil disobedience is an impossibility till the preliminary work of construction is done.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
My attitude toward peace does not depend on which war we are discussing. I think that words should do the work of bombs.
~ Margaret Cho
I learned that as long as I had anything in my heart or head I still felt necessary to hide, it would not work. I had to come to peace with everything.
~ Marlo Morgan
We will continue to work together to implement the Minsk accord and doing all we can to return to peace with the respect of the integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine.
~ Matteo Renzi
If your mind is tired, go get work in the fields!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Everything's going to be fine. She'll be back at work soon. Let's just keep the house clean." Oh yeah, I want to say, because a clean house will result in peace in the Middle East as well.
~ Melina Marchetta