Quotes About Peace

Ester lay silent under the cover, willing herself toward the sweet sleep she now craved more than almost all else. The death of each day's life. End it, she thought. End this day's life if the world holds mercy.

Only he who is without anything is without enemies.

La claridad que la filosofía ofrece lleva a la superación serena de la ansiedad que carcome al hombre.

Life is so filled with unavoidable conflict that I see no reason to promote more confrontations.

Pain is all I know. He murmured. Peace is all I want

My life would be constrained by the horror and fierce rage that my appearance inspired, but I would know peace as well as fear, tenderness as well as brutality, and even love in a time of cruelty.

I am amazed that there are still nights when I sleep well.

I need useful work to keep my mind occupied, but I'd like to find work where it's...quieter.

He had tried to shed his pain, to rise from the ashes like a drab phoenix with no hope except the cold peace of indifference. Now that events forced him to open himself to the world again, he was swamped by emotion as a novice surfer was overwhelmed by each cresting wave.

For the first time, he considered that utter indifference might inspire not inner peace but a limitless capacity for evil.

The mild wind made the trees sway gently, in a lullaby rhythm, and the resultant susurration was like the soft sighs and dreamy murmurs of a thousand peacefully slumbering children.

anger harms no one more than he who harbors it. That both bitterness and true happiness are choices that we make, not conditions that fall upon us from the hands of fate. That peace is to be found in the acceptance of things that we are unable to change. That friends and family are the blood of life, and that the purpose of existence is caring, commitment.

Some felt that perhaps in his past lay a tragedy with which he had never been able to make his peace, that the only companion with which he felt comfortable was sorrow.

If you're still, and if you don't hope too much, peace will come to you. It's a grace.

I do not wish to shine. I prefer shadows, quiet, periods of solitude. I do not wish to be noticed. If one is all but invisible to others, one cannot be envied, inspire anger or suspicion. Near invisibility is a way of life that I recommend.

We get only one life. We shouldn't waste a day of it in anger.

Sleep is a kind of peace, and I have not yet earned peace.

I don't desire a change of scenery or exotic experiences. My heart yearns for familiarity, stability, the comfort of home — and my sanity depends on it.

Embrace the weather, child, and you'll understand the balance of the world.

where the animals that wake and live in the absence of the sun are going about their business more peacefully than does humanity. There

No matter how close we are to another person, few human relationships are as free from strife, disagreement, and frustration as is the relationship you have with a good dog.

Being alone can be good. It is easy to find peace alone. But sometimes...being alone is a kind of death.

to waste energy and time fanning the flames of anger

the single-story house