Quotes About Peace

I liked my floaty, superior life more than I could have admitted. I liked the remote spaces I was settling into. I liked looking down from above — the calm of it. I kept this preference to myself. Mostly.

I would like to buy $3 worth of God, please, not enough to explode my soul or disturb my sleep, but just enough to equal a cup of warm milk or a snooze in the sunshine… I want ecstasy, not transformation; I want the warmth of the womb

Deeply and soundly. Doc gave me something to help me sleep and I didn't even know that I was taking it. It knocked me out for a solid eight hours and that's the most sleep I've had in weeks.

It's never too late to come home, he said, and pulled me gently, insistently toward him.All you have to do...is stop moving away.

Garden work clears the mind.

This is something different again. A feeling of peace. The feeling you get when a recipe turns out perfectly right, a perfectly risen souffle, a flawless sauce hollandaise. It's a feeling which tells me that any woman can be beautiful in the eyes of a man who loves her.

Weeds and wheat cannot grow peacefully together. Any gardener could tell you the same thing.

Weed and wheat cannot grow together in peace.

The only person who suffers, when you squirrel alway all that hate, is you.

You live and let live, eventually that becomes enough.

A place like this wears down everything, and tolerance is no exception. In here, coexistence passes for forgiveness. You do not learn to like something you abhor; you come to live with it...You live and let live, and eventually that becomes enough.

newborns reminded her of tiny buddhas

Remember when you were a little kid and you'd fall asleep in the car? And someone would carry you out and put you into bed, so that when you woke up in the morning, you knew automatically you were home again? That's what I think it's like to die.

the universe wants from us is two things: don't do any intentional harm to yourself or anyone else, and get happy.

You don't make peace only with G-d. You make it with people. Sin isn't global. It's personal. If you do wrong to someone, the only way to fix that is to go to that same person and do right by him.

Now they will rest before shouldering the endless work they were created to do down here in paradise.

Make time to be still.

Its not workload that kills you, its worry that kills you.

TempleTemple is a place where God stays, In your heart is where God lays.So if you can touch the God inside your heart, Divine bliss shall always become your part.

Love of bustle is not industry.

Rest is the sweet sauce of labour.

Heaven is blessed with perfect rest but the blessing of earth is toil.

When I go into the garden, I forget everything. It's uncomplicated in my world of gardening. It's trial and error, really. If something doesn't work, it comes out, and you start all over again.

I am grateful for the opportunities I have been given to participate in that work as a representative of my country, Canada, whose people have, I think, shown their devotion to peace.