Quotes About Peace

But that was the way of it everywhere: there you were, getting on with things, minding your own business, and suddenly some arsehole decides to start a war.

I know that. I'm having a ball. I'm not slap happy. I'm just filled up with joy and with peace and with all kinds of things that have eluded me for quite a few years. And they're back and they're thriving.

I have a theory about pink pastry boxes. So much joy comes from those boxes. When someone walks into a room with a pink pastry box, joy immediately fills the room. World peace? Three words. Pink pastry box. I get a big cup of coffee and finalize my plans for world domination.

There is no rest in the heart of God until He knows that you are at resh in His grace.

Quiet had a roof and it had walls around it, and you could sit inside it. She had never thought of silence as a place.One of the friends, Tom Williams told her,'the place is in your heart, Louise. Everything else is just clutter.

"I love Nunsmere," said the Literary Man from London. "It is a spot where faded lives are laid away in lavender."

Thank Heaven, the sun has gone in, and I don't have to go out and enjoy it.

If money don't buy happiness, what the hell does?

Yeah, world peace would be all right, but what about a day off in a slab of ham the size of my head.

I'd trade every last one of you for a moment's peace and a dog that didn't P on the carpet

Memory is the happiness of being alone.

War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.

They are fighters. They love peace. They are unafraid of war. They intend nothing less than to destroy existing capitalist society and to take possession of the whole world. If the law of the land permits, they fight for this end peaceably, at the ballot box. If the law of the land does not permit, and if they have force meted out to them, they resort to force themselves.

Sleep... Oh! how I loathe those little slices of death....

For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining, is to let it rain.

Silence is a great peacemaker.

The holiest of all holidays are those Kept by ourselves in silence and apart.

Peace! Peace! Orestes-like I breathe this prayer! Descend with broad-winged flight, The welcome, the thrice-prayed for, the most fair, The best-beloved Night!

Happiness isn't something that depends on our surroundings, Corrie. It's something we make inside ourselves.

Harmony is pure love, for love is complete agreement.

With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy

I'll always be happy if they'd leave me alone in that delightful and unknown furthest corner, apart from struggles, putrefactions and nonsense; the ultimate corner of sugar and toast, where the mermaids catch the branches of the willows and the heart opens to a flute's sharpness.

We prefer to avoid men, and to shun the world, in order that we may seek in retirement, the only peace that is possessing, the only happiness which is left us to enjoy.

How sweet and soothing is this hour of calm I thank thee, night for thou has chased away these horrid bodements which, amidst the throng, I could not dissipate and with the blessing of thy benign and quiet influence now will I to my couch, although to rest is almost wronging such a night as this.