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Quotes About Peace

As it turned out, my fears were unwarranted. Which isn't to say you haven't changed. But the biggest change of all has been a measure of peace. The peace is not total, but in the face of a suffocating anxiety, a measure of peace is no small thing.
~ Maggie Nelson
What if where I am is what I need?
~ Maggie Nelson
Nothing you say can fuck up the space for God.
~ Maggie Nelson
What if where I am is what I need? Before you, I had always thought of this mantra as a means of making peace with a bummer or even catastrophic situation. I never imagined it might apply to joy, too.
~ Maggie Nelson
But there is nothing. A high whine of nothing, like the absence of noise when a church bell falls silent.
~ Maggie O'Farrell
And as these words come, one after another, it is possible for him to slip away from himself and find a peace so absorbing, so soothing, so private, so joyous that nothing else will do.
~ Maggie O'Farrell
There is, she has found, great power to be had in silence.
~ Maggie O'Farrell
I am also shouting at the top of my voice. There's something about living in the middle of nowhere that invites this indulgence.
~ Maggie O'Farrell
The world was suddenly still; nothing was being required of me; I could stand in the quiet of my own skin.
~ Maggie O'Farrell
Those men are wise who do not desire the unattainable, who do not love to mourn over what is lost, and are not overwhelmed by calamities.
~ Unknown
Just think of any negativity that comes to you as a raindrop falling into the ocean of your bliss.
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
dwells in the silent chamber of the heart of everyone and everything.
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
The goal is to establish a Vedic Capital of Global Administration through Natural Law, with the knowledge of Veda—total Natural Law—as the Constitution, for 200,000 Vedic Pandits to live their Vedic way of life and create and maintain a strong, indomitable influence of coherence in world consciousness, so that peace and harmony prevail, and the whole human race lives in perpetual peace in a problem-free world—perpetual peace on Earth.
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in you. Let us work together for unity and love.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
N.B. This quote refers to the British disarmament of the Indian Army. Gandhi never advocated the individual right to bear arms.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
I look out on my language, two days later A short absence is enough for Aeschylus to open the door to peace a short speech is enough for Antonio to incite war A hand of a woman in my hand is enough to embrace my freedom and for the ebb and flow to begin anew in my body (I See my Ghost Coming from a Distance)
~ Mahmoud Darwish
Graveyards have the dignity of air, the authority of dust.
~ Mahmoud Darwish
This peace will leave us as a cluster of dust...
~ Mahmoud Darwish
There is no desert in the memory I have of you And no enemies from now on for the rose That bursts forth from the ruins of your house!
~ Mahmoud Darwish
Peace to the hint of sadness in your eyes.
~ Mahmoud Darwish
Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.
~ Unknown