Quotes About Peace

Poems] train and exercise the imagination. Trained imaginations are what we need most at a time like this. That is what will enable us to reach across cultures and understand each other, to think of new models and modes of organization that might work better, and to wage peace, because the love of beauty is deeply related to the love of peace.

There are generous and inventive ways to enjoy words and to reclaim them as instruments of love, healing, and peace. All of us who speak, read, write, and listen to each other have opportunities to do that and to foster the kinds of community that come from shared stories and surprising sentences.

I need to remember that where my ego is concerned, the only way to win is not to play.

I was under the librarians' protection. Civil servants and servants of civility, they had my back. They would be whatever they needed to be that day: information professionals, teachers, police, community organizers, computer technicians, historians, confidantes, clerks, social workers, storytellers, or, in this case, guardians of my peace.

Learn to ignore everything

Hide in the morrow. No one will look for you there.

Fear is peace and Peace is fear

To find the peace you never had you will need to do the one fearful thing that you have never done.

God's grace set me free from fear.

The beach was empty and dark but she couldn't hear her fear over the call of the surf.

I don't want to be the person who gasps in fear whenever she hears the sound of a doorbell or a phone. I just want to lose myself in these hills, in the river winding west to the city of bridges.

I now can say I no longer fear death. Instead welcome it with open arms…

The fear of silence is a fear everyone should overcome.

The world's only lessons are tension and fear — relax into yourself.

... security is not having things

Let nothing disturb you nothing frighten you all things are passing God never changes.

The surest way to prevent war is not to fear it.

Dying peacefully means to avoid any immediate cause for anger, fear, or strong desire.

Movement is good for the body. Stillness is good for the mind.

Sometimes the most urgent and vital thing you can possibly do is take a complete rest.

He who needs only coarse food, water and drink, and as pillow his folded arms will find happiness without further search.

Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.

Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.

Forgiving someone isn't just about doing good to another. It's also about healing a scar in your own heart.