Quotes About Peace

He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment.

Now look", my mother said. "When I feel myself starting to worry, I just tell myself, I will not worry about something that will never happen, and that always calms me, because most of the things we worry about will never happen. Why don`t you give that a try?

Yeah, says the Newsday reporter, he's a real pacifist. He's the Gandhi of Gangsters.

For one beautiful moment—and who could ask anything more of life?—I needed and wanted for nothing.

No god should ever be invoked to inflict harm.

Me invade una nostalgia largamente olvidada de aquel apacible y grave reino del espíritu; y flota entonces con imprecisas notas mi canción susurrante, como arpa eolia; un escalofrío me sacude la lágrima va en pos de las lágrimas, el severo corazón se siente dulce y blando.. veo lejano aquello que poseo, y lo perdido se me hace realidad.

The vacation we often need is freedom from our own mind.

hate harms no one so much as the one who hates. Do not grant even the worst person such a victory over you.

Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.

He spake well who said that graves are the footprints of angels. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Ever felt an angel's breath in the gentle breeze? A teardrop in the falling rain? Hear a whisper amongst the rustle of leaves? Or been kissed by a lone snowflake? Nature is an angel's favorite hiding place. -Terri Guillemets

Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares about you. -1 Peter 5:7

I have lived a long life and had many troubles, most of which never happened. MARK TWAIN

Holding on to anger and resentment is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.

Aikido," my teacher had said again and again, "is the art of reconciliation. Whoever has the mind to fight has broken his connection with the universe. If you try to dominate people, you're already defeated. We study how to resolve conflict, not how to start it.

We must take our troubles to the Lord, but more than that, we must leave them there. ~Hannah Whittall Smith

Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal. -Author Unknown

And when Mother Teresa was asked why she didn't participate in anti-war demonstrations, she said, "I will never do that, but as soon as you have a pro-peace rally, I'll be there." These great leaders knew that to be against something—to focus on your opposition to it—just creates more of it.

Forgive and Move on As long as you don't forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy rent-free space in your mind. ISABELLE HOLLAND Award-winning author of 28 books

Next to love, balance is the most important thing. –John Wooden

Reece picked up her suitcase as they moved through the airport, his eyes subconsciously sweeping the area ahead; first hands, then bodies, then faces. The sixth sense that had kept warriors alive since time immemorial was reminding him that his peace could never last.

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When the men and women on both sides love their children more than they hate their enemies, then maybe this can stop.

By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests, I forget to worry.