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Quotes About Peace

No more in life would that face be free of care.
~ John Steinbeck
People didn't really believe in war even while they planned it. The Salinas Valley lived about as it always had.
~ John Steinbeck
kind of warm silence.
~ John Steinbeck
The Art of Peace is medicine for a sick world. We want to cure the world of the sickness of violence, malcontent, and discord—this is the Way of Harmony. There is evil and disorder in the world because people have forgotten that all things emanate from one source. Return to that source and leave behind all self-centered thoughts, petty desires, and anger. Those who are possessed by nothing possess everything.
~ Unknown
There is evil and disorder in the world because people have forgotten that all things emanate from one source. Return to that source and leave behind all self-centered thoughts, petty desires, and anger. Those who are possessed by nothing possess everything.
~ Unknown
And like any dog, like any savage, I lay there enjoying myself, harming no man, selling nothing, competing not at all, thinking no evil, smiled on by the sun, bent over by the trees, and softly folded in the arms of the earth.
~ Unknown
The cloud of the consommé's warmth enveloped her face and revived her poise. In the liquid a slice of lemon lay at fetal peace.
~ John Updike
They inhabit a kind of heaven, economical as a memory.
~ John Updike
My idea of rich is that you can buy every book you ever want without looking at the price and you're never around assholes. That's the two things to really fight for in life.
~ John Waters
I'm rich! I don't mean money-wise. I mean that I have figured out how to never be around assholes at any time in my personal and professional life. That's rich.
~ John Waters
Perhaps the final proof that the war was really over came at six o'clock on the first evening, with the pipe - 'children to supper'.
~ Unknown
Success is peace of mind in knowing you did your best.
~ John Wooden
Next to love, balance is the most important thing.
~ John Wooden
Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable.
~ John Wooden
Success is peace of mind that is the direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.
~ John Wooden
Peace of mind attained only through self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to do the best of which you're capable.
~ John Wooden
Happiness is in many things. It's in love. It's in sharing. But most of all, it's in being at peace with yourself knowing that you are making the effort, the full effort, to do what is right.
~ John Wooden
I have prepared for death all of my life by the life I lived." Socrates was at peace with himself.
~ John Wooden
You can choose love or hate…I choose love.
~ Johnny Cash
Lying On The Grass The solid earth has never yet complained. There is only the slight scrape Of the accommodating grass Adjusting around your body its bent blades. Part the grass with fingertips To follow the travels of ants And expeditions of other insects Through the weeds. On your forearm A light green mite Is blown when you breathe From its perch, a sunlit hair.
~ Unknown
I didn't mean any harm.' For who truly means harm in all this world.
~ Unknown
To let go means to give up coercing, resisting, or struggling, in exchange for something more powerful and wholesome which comes out of allowing things to be as they are without getting caught up in your attraction to or rejection of them, in the intrinsic stickiness of wanting, of liking and disliking. It's akin to letting your palm open to unhand something you have been holding on to.
~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
So, in meditation practice, the best way to get somewhere is to let go of trying to get anywhere at all.
~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
dwell in stillness and to observe without reacting and without judging.
~ Jon Kabat-Zinn