Quotes About Peace

Joy flees from the selfish, it deserts the quarrelsome; it is hidden from the impure.

Spiritual meditation is the pathway to Divinity. It is a mystic ladder which reaches from earth to heaven, from error to Truth, from pain to peace.

Let there be nothing within thee that is not very beautiful and very gentle, and there will be nothing without thee that is not beautiful and softened by the spell of thy presence.

my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.

put aside hatred and take up love" (356)

The honeysuckle made the People particularly happy, since it attracted holy hummingbirds, and as long as hummingbirds hovered nearby, things would be all right.

P.S. Do no violence. Kill no one.

She had done as much as possible to create a stable, gloriously dull life for herself

Solitude is good company and my architecture is not for those who fear or shun it.

Any work of architecture that does not express serenity is a mistake.

Silence. In the gardens and homes designed by me, I have always endeavored to allow for the interior placid murmur of silence, and in my fountains, silence sings.

A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.

Schopenhauer noted, are unmistakable signs that one has made peace with the world and that one is willing to perpetuate the social order.71

In silence lies safety.

The importance of my old life is dimming as I move toward the bright light I've seen once before. It's allowing me to come to it, and this time, I won't be sent back. If only the people I'm leaving behind could understand! There is no sadness where I'm going. Only joy.

Justice, love, truth, peace and harmony, a serene unity with science and the laws of the universe.

Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.

Now all these virtues mean one thing, and that is bravery. A Sioux boy was taught to be brave always. It was not sufficient to be brave enough to go to war. He must be brave enough to make personal sacrifices and to think little of personal gain. To be brave was the supreme test of a Sioux boy, and this bravery might receive a greater test in times of peace than in times of war.

He was his usual philosophic self and tried very hard to explain to me that although life was stained with agony, this was necessary. That scars only concealed, and finally helped to reveal, an essential peace. He said that what we, who pass so swiftly, experience as songs of love or cries of pain are only overtones to a single note in a very much larger harmony.

Our hands imbibe like roots, so I place them on what is beautiful in this world. —Francis of Assisi

Contentment does not lie around the next corner. It is not waiting for us on the other side of today's difficulty, nor is it lost with yesterday. Contentment is where God is, and God is with us today.

God wants us to enjoy the peace that comes from a mind set on him and on his purposes rather than on how we feel. A Christ-focused life is a stable life, because the joy that comes along with it doesn't hinge, as do our human emotions, on daily ups and downs.

as long as I felt I had to take some action, I was anguished, and when I gave up all responsibility and stopped trying to do anything at all, I was relatively at peace, even though the earth meanwhile was circling so far below us and we were so high up in a defective airplane that would have trouble landing.

Filled with the joy of love, I gave up sadness.