Quotes About Peace

Stable government requires the free consent of those ruled. Tyranny, even the tyranny of benevolent despots, cannot bring lasting peace and prosperity. There

The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.

I know what loose ends can do to a soul. The sooner she knows the truth, whatever it is, the sooner she can get on with her future.

When you begin a journey of revenge, start by digging two graves: one for your enemy, and one for yourself. —CHINESE PROVERB

Silence has a sound

Can you see the pond? From up here, I can. It is a piece of sky, lying on the ground. When Heaven breaks, who fixes it?

And I thought—not for the first time—that forgiving and forgetting aren't mutually exclusive.

It was the sort of place where you could hear the tumblers of your mind falling into place as you pieced thought together, as you tried to match it to action.

You don't make peace only with God. 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.

You don't borrow trouble.

Niekas nepradeda karo- ar bent jau ne vienas protingas zmogus neturetu jo pradeti - tvirtai nesuvokdamas, ka siuo karu jis ketina pasiekti ir kaip jis ketina kariauti.

but I love the fact that it needs to sit quietly, to retreat from touch and noise and drama, in order to evolve. I have to admit, I often feel that way myself.  Ã¢â'¬Â¢

And there is a place in you that you don't even know exists, where you can simply stand back and watch without feeling any pain.

Just looking at it, at so much beauty in one place, makes the tightness in my chest loosen a little. Surely if there's evil in the world, it's counterbalanced by moments like these. "You know, Sage, Jesus didn't tell us to

But forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself.

But I remember another image from Earth: the rich dark green grass that grew in graveyards.

V??ná válka je daleko spíÅ¡ dílem odsuzujícím válku, než antimilitaristickým románem

Jsem proti válce, ne proti voják?m.

violence toward another human being must become as abhorrent as eating another's flesh.' — Martin Luther King, Jr.

Christ and Buddha

To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the highest skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the highest skill.

For the uncontrolled there is no wisdom, nor for the uncontrolled is there the power of concentration; and for him without concentration there is no peace. And for the unpeaceful, how can there be happiness? —BHAGAVAD GITA

And for the unpeaceful, how can there be happiness?

También sabía ahora que el gran secreto de la felicidad es aceptar la vida, no controlarla.