Quotes About Peace

You think I'm drunk and talking nonsense? I'm not. I would know she was being well taken care of, and I could go pleasantly to seed here in the mountains. It would be a fine, quiet feeling.

Yes, all of this is sorrow. But leave a little love burning always like the small bulb in the room of a sleeping baby that gives him a bit of security and quiet love though he doesn't know what the light is or where it comes from.

But peace returns to my heart. Not peace as it used to be before it left me years ago. It went away to school, matured as I did, and came back looking like me.

Peace may sound simple - one beautiful word - but it requires everything we have, every quality, every strength, every dream, every high ideal.

Greet everyone warmly, and greet them first. Do not ignore others or pretend that you do not see them. The rabbis teach: Receive everyone warmly and with joy. (Avot 1:15, 3:16) Always be first in greeting all men with the blessing of peace. (Avot 4:22)

You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.

We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions.

An effective method of meditation leads us to an experience of profound stillness, an inner silence that defies description. It is an emptiness that is full with peace, creativity and happiness. It is the natural condition of our mind beyond the processes of our thinking.

Try to say nothing negative about anybody. a) for three days b) for forty-five days c) for three months See what happens to your life.

But first the endgames. Because it seems that no matter what you think of them, they must be played, even if, like the independence of India or Jamaica, like the signing of peace treaties or the docking of passenger boats, the end is simply the beginning of an even longer story.

Racial homogeneity is no guarantor of peace, any more than racial heterogeneity is fated to fail.

Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.

Where there is love there is life." —Mahatma Gandhi

his phantoms of peace. Majestically they formed around him, marshalling and mustering in ceremonious state, and moved to lay upon him their passionless serenity.

Bern, it's divine to forgive your enemies. 'Let not the sun go down upon thy wrath.

Lord I thank you for creating the world beautiful and various and for allowing me in Your fathomless goodness to visit places which were not the sites of my daily torments

The dead have need of fairy tales too.

The best richness is the richness of the soul;

In the day, he thought of nothing; at night, he slept heavily and dreamlessly. Face pink and fat, stomach full, brain empty, he was happy.

Of course he wasn't dead. He could never be dead until she herself had finished feeling and thinking. The kiss of his memory made pictures of love and light against the wall. Here was peace. She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net. Pulled it from around the waist of the world and draped it over her shoulder. So much of life in its meshes! She called in her soul to come and see.

Aw, git reconciled!.. You can't git her wid no fish sandwich.

Just g'wan back home and set down on yo' royal diasticutis and say nothin'.

Common danger made common friends. Nothing sought a conquest over the other.

Cudjo meetee de people at de gate and tells dem, "You see de rattlesnake in de woods?" Dey say, "Yeah." I say "If you bother wid him, he bite you. If you know de snake killee you, why you bother wid him? Same way wid my boys, you unnerstand me. If you leave my boys alone, dey not bother nobody!