Quotes About Peace

One does not learn how to die by killing others.

Accept this reality: It is your mind's job to think—24/7. And it's not going to stop just because you sit down for 8 minutes and tell it to "Shut up, already!" But the good news is this: When you stop trying to stop your thoughts, you begin to surpass them. This can lead you to the peace you thought you could only achieve when you stopped thinking!

Behind every American soldier, dozens of their countrymen tonight sleep soundly — and hundreds more in their shadow abroad will wake up alive and safe.

Again, wars do not really end until the conditions that started them--a bellicose government, an aggressive leader, a national policy of brinksmanship--are eliminated. Otherwise, there remains a bellum interruptum , much like the so-called Peace of Nicias, when Athens and Sparta agreed to a time-out in 421 B.C., before going at each other with renewed and deadly fury in 415 B.C.

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

The clouds, — the only birds that never sleep.

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?

To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.

They've made a peace treaty of their own', Eva used to say, when we passed an illuminated window. (In reference to the strict German laws on light blackouts.)

May you always walk in Beauty.

The ideal of beauty is simplicity and tranquility.

Lovers find secret places inside this violent world where they make transactions with beauty.

Tea is quiet and our thirst for tea is never far from our craving for beauty.

What is pertinent is the calmness of beauty, its sense of restraint. It is as though the land knows of its own beauty, its own greatness, and feels no need to shout it.

Glances of true beauty can be seen in the faces of those who live in true meekness.

Pure chastity is beauty to our souls, grace to our bodies, and peace to our desires.

Did you ever sit quietly with your back straight, not moving, just only cherishing the beauty of silence?

What is pertinent is the calmness of that beauty, its sense of restraint.

Look, really look, at how beautiful this day is. Let go of the worries and anxieties and judgments, and see the beauty.

Our Father which art in heaven - Stay there - And we will stay on earth - Which is sometimes so pretty.