Quotes About Peace

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. ~ Buddha

Cometo me, all you who are weary and burdened and I will give you rest.

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured." ? Mark Twain

Putting the mind to a task diluted the power of worry.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

Cometo me, all you who are weary and burdened and I will give you rest. It

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. ~ Confucius

Sometimes I go for days without speaking to a soul. I think, "I should make that call", but I put it off. Because there's something pleasurable about not talking. But then I love talking, so it's not that. But sometimes it can be nice. It's not like I sit here philosophizing, because I've no talent for that. It's just this thing about silence that's so wonderful.

I am alone. I am here. No one is watching me. In these hours of silence that I cherish, I talk to myself and reflect. That past, entrenched in time, motionless and infinite, has vanished onto thin air. None of it remains. Why, therefore, am I hurting so much? Why did I bring back with me this nameless pain? I followed the path I set for myself, and I have forgiven. I do not want to be chained to hatred or resentment. I want to have the right to live in peace.

Once you acknowledge that reality is not your enemy, it will no longer be your enemy.

He hated the war; it threatened much more than his lifestyle or peace of mind. It continually destroyed the world of the imagination, the only world where he felt happy.

I don't know if anyone ever "wins" a war, Jeth.

We curse out loud instead of loving out loud! Our words and thoughts produce life or death. We choose! God gave us the freedom to choose good or evil, peace or worry, contentment or depression, healing or sickness, order or disorder, wealth or poverty, knowledge or illiteracy,

A sunbeam to warm you, A moonbeam to charm you, A sheltering angel, so nothing can harm you.

May the roof above us never fall in And may we good companions beneath it never fall out.

Smoke your pipe and be silent; there's only wind and smoke in the world.

Sometimes ah think that people become junkies just because they subconsciously crave a wee bit ay silence.

For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual.

some of the happiest moments of my life have occurred just before I fall asleep or wake up, when I linger in that twilight world between consciousness and unconsciousness, in a state of somnolent repose but also savoring the vital goodness of remaining this close to the vegetative in myself

the world must not be run by men who are smiling, charming, incompetent reflections of the nincompoop masses. There are those of us who believe that the affairs of the world can be conducted peacefully and efficiently only by authorities who are not experts alone but who are also men of decisiveness.

It is not only the living who are killed in war.

You wait for the war to happen like vultures. If you want to help, prevent the war. Don't save the remnants. Save them all.

An innocent bachelor, he lived like a bird on a branch

As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.