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Quotes About Peace

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.
~ Henri Nouwen
This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction
~ Henry David Thoreau
I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life of charm and grace.
~ Margaret Mitchell
I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
~ Wendell Berry
Ignorance is the peace of life.
~ Proverb
It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
When despair for the world grows in me, and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be -- I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought or grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
~ Wendell Berry
Peace is the deliberate adjustment of my life to the will of God.
~ Unknown
The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.
~ Thomas Jefferson
I never felt settled or calm. You can't really commit to life when you feel that.
~ Angelina Jolie
Everything is changeable, everything appears and disappears; there is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life and death.
~ Buddha
To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life - bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.
~ Peace Pilgrim
The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.
~ Peace Pilgrim
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
~ Victor Hugo
Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.
~ Kahlil Gibran
Without forgiveness life is governed by an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.
~ Roberto Assagioli
Enjoy Life, Give Joy, and Be at Peace!
~ Unknown
The values a man must cherish as his life-breath are, Truth, Righteousness, Peace, Love and Non violence.
~ Sri Sathya Sai Baba
I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
~ Ernest Hemingway
Sincere forgiveness isn't colored with expectations that the other person apologize or change. Don't worry whether or not they finally understand you. Love them and release them. Life feeds back truth to people in its own way and time.
~ Sara Paddison
Who among us hasn't envied a cat's ability to ignore the cares of daily life and to relax completely?
~ Karen Brademeyer
The most important things in life aren't things.
~ Unknown
One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything before you go to bed.
~ Ann Landers
Compassion, forgiveness, these are the real, ultimate sources of power for peace and success in life.
~ Tenzin Gyatso