Quotes About Peace

More is achieved by love than hate. Hate is the downfall of any race or nation.' Josephine Baker

it) was like being under the sea, in aquamarine light. However bright or loud your surroundings, you were somehow always alone.

You have to make them look peaceful. That's what the family wants to see, that their loved one is at peace.

Sometimes the threat is so grave, the worst of enemies must become the best of friends.

We will spend our lives fighting to secure this Imperium, and then I fear we will spend the rest of our days fighting to keep it intact. There is such involving darkness amongst the stars. Even when the Imperium is complete, there will be no peace. We will be obliged to fight on to preserve what we have fought to establish. Peace is a vain wish. Our crusade may one day adopt another name, but it will never truly end. In the far future, there will be only war.

A denouement is not a complete or fully resolved ending but a satisfying closure to a story. [in French translates 'an untying, a relaxing of a knot of complexity'] Denouement is the rest that comes when all the disparate plot lines of a story, gnarled and taut, have been untied and an order has come about that brings a new moment of shalom.

I have something to say to the religionist who feels atheists never say anything positive: You are an intelligent human being. Your life is valuable for its own sake. You are not second-class in the universe, deriving meaning and purpose from some other mind. You are not inherently evil—you are inherently human, possessing the positive rational potential to help make this a world of morality, peace and joy. Trust yourself.

There's a lot of stress... but once you get in the car, all that goes out the window.

God, grant me strength to accept those things I cannot change.

The Rothschilds developed the very idea of the international investment bank – they could transfer their funds wherever there was peace and prosperity, and thus enjoy high interest on their investments no matter what the situation was. Importantly, they were happy to fund private and government ventures by lending money. These two factors made them a financial machine of a completely new sort.

What I want to say here is that there is a place beyond control and beyond concern that people can go, where the values and the needs of everyday life change completely. Where what matters is moment-to-moment survival to avoid mind pain.

But it's the cool silence of that stone church that I remember the most. It was heady and gave me life. It was there that I could escape the scrutiny and expectations of being a child of color and the son of a preacher.

We were arguing about it when all of a sudden some funny-looking guy marched into our classroom. He was all dressed up in a fancy army uniform. He had a white wig on his head and a sword in his hand. "To be prepared for war is the best way to keep the peace!" the army guy said. Then he marched out of the classroom.

Swami Havabanana

What do you have against violins?" I asked Andrea. "Not violins, Arlo! Violence!

When the angry jerking about and spitting stops, the serenity starts.

We can build such a sanctuary by returning to the fundamental pleasures of home and family, of good books, and most important, to the joy of worshiping God. If our happiness is dependent upon these, the outside world can tumble about us and we can still have peace.

As the war on terror continues, Americans must honor the brave men and women who gave their lives for the protection of this nation and the hope of peace.

Being positive will inject in you a sense of peace and tranquility amidst the troubled waters.

Be happy now, without reason - or you never will be at all.

There is no path to Happiness. Happiness is the path. There is no path to Love. Love is the path. There is no path to Peace. Peace is the path.

Selon les diseuses de bonne aventure les cartes rouges et noires ne me laissent pas le choix. Dans ma paume, la ligne de vie est creusée comme une cicatrice. Il n'y aura pas de miracles. Mon sang ne remontera pas sa pente. Ce qui doit m'arriver, m'arrivera implacablement et s'imposera tel un long rêve insupportable. On m'a permis d'espérer, sans que l'espoir me soit imposé par quiconque. Alors, je ne demande que de vivre en paix entre mes frontières.

Wars happen because states are uncertain about each others' intentions and capabilities, and because states cannot sign binding agreements by which they agree not to attack each other.

There is a fullness and calmness there which can come only from knowing pain.