Quotes About Peace

O verdadeiro perdão não é forçado - disse -, mas cai como o suave sereno do céu...

The world is chaos and death and destruction. But people like you—you don't stand for that. If there is any order in the world, any peace—it's because of you, John, and those very few like you.

the library held a hushed exultation, as though the cherished volumes were all singing soundlessly within their covers.

Still, as the Mass went on, things seemed more normal; there were Bible readings, quite familiar, and then the accustomed descent into the vaguely pleasant boredom of a sermon, in which the inevitable Christmas annunciations of "peace," "goodwill," and "love" rose to the surface of his mind, tranquil as white lilies floating on a pond of words.

If ever there were a night when angels walked, I prayed it might be this one.

day's work, I drifted into sleep at once, soothed

For a moment, I lived in the center of the sun, warmed and cleansed, and the smell and sight of sickness fell away; the bitterness lifted from my heart. I

I think there are times for men of peace—and a time for men of blood, as well.

And it was a fine day, one fit for birdsong, rambling the woods, and maybe fishing a bit near sunset.

She sat still, and listened, and thought she knew what Jamie Fraser had found here. Not loneliness, but solitude. Not suffering, but endurance, the discovery of grim kinship with the rocks and sky. And the finding here of a harsh peace that would transcend bodily discomfort, a healing instead of the wounds of the soul.

Sassenach, ¿sabías que algunos creen que la última persona que yace en un cementerio se convierte en su guardián? Debe montar guardia hasta que muere otra persona y ocupa su lugar... Sólo entonces puede descansar.

of grass, watching the

reason returned, and I calmed

Live and let live was my basic attitude.

At first he had thought the loneliness would kill him, but once he had learned it would not, he came to value the solitude of the mountainside.

I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made: Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee. And live alone in the bee-loud glade.

The shade of death lies upon thy face, beloved, But the Jesus of grace has His hand round about thee; In nearness to the Trinity farewell to thy pains, Christ stands before thee and peace is in His mind.

SonsuzluÄŸun yan?nda günler ve haftalar?n ne anlam? ola bilirdi ki?... Bu bir anlamda insana huzur veren bir fikirdi. EÄŸer sonsuz zamana sahip olsayd?k, yaÅŸad???m?z anlar çok daha hafif yükler verirdi bize.

only joy in the doing of it, except for the one thing. The one consideration strong enough to outweigh Jamie's pride, loom larger than his sense of manhood, than his threatened soul's peace. Frank. That was the single idea that had driven me through this day, sustained me well past the

I SLEPT THE sleep of the gardener, physical exhaustion leavened by tranquility

I never looked for it, gave it no name; yet I knew it always, when the gift of peace came. I stood quite still for the moment that it lasted, thinking it strange and not strange that grace should find me here, too.

The company of plants is always soothing, and after the incessant—well, you couldn't call it sociability, exactly, but at least the incessant presence of people requiring to be conversed with, directed, hectored, scolded, conferred with, persuaded, lied to—that I had experienced over the last few days

And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow.

cloud, a uniform color from horizon to