Quotes About Peace

We have never been at war with ourselves. We never place the desires of the individual over the requirements of the collective.

Ik heb nooit een gezelliger kameraad gevonden dan de eenzaamheid. (Thoreau)

Lives are lost in wars but it doesn't mean they shouldn't ever be fought.

They can talk about peace being a good thing yet glorify war. They can despise the man who kills his wife in rage but worship the indifferent soldier who drops a bomb killing a hundred children.

To be is to let go

Pentru a avea sansa la fericire trainica, trebuie sa te calmezi. Trebuie doar sa fii in acel lucru si sa il faci pur si simplu.

I used to deal with worry by distracting myself. By going out to clubs, by drinking heavily, by spending summers in Ibiza, by wanting the spiciest food, the brashest movies, the edgiest novels, the loudest music, the latest nights. I was scared of the quiet. I was scared, I suppose, of having to slow down and soften the volume. Scared of having nothing but my own mind to listen to.

Nu-ti irosi viata facandu-ti griji pentru lucrurile pe care le ratezi. N-as vrea sa sune ca o insemnare budista - desi, de acord, e oarecum budista-, dar viata nu e despre a fi fericit cu ceea ce faci, ci despre a fi fericit cu ceea ce esti.

Dat is de grootste troost van 439 jaar oud zijn. Je doorgrondt de belangrijkste les van de geschiedenis: dat mensen niet van de geschiedenis leren. De 21ste eeuw kan uitdraaien op een slechte cover van de 20ste eeuw, maar wat kunnen we er aan doen? Over de hele wereld zijn de hoofden van mensen gevuld met utopieën die elkaar nooit overlappen. Een recept voor mislukking, maar eentje dat we al kennen, helaas. Vrede is van porselein gemaakt, zoals altijd.

How happy is the little stone That rambles in the road alone, And doesn't care about careers, And exigencies never fears; Whose coat of elemental brown A passing universe put on; And independent as the sun, Associates or glows alone, Fulfilling absolute decree In casual simplicity.

The hardest dream of all to achieve is the dream of not being tormented by our unlived dreams. To cope with and accept unfulfillment as a natural human condition

Everything looked expensive and calm, as if calm was something you needed money to pay for.

Kita tidak membutuhkan apapun selain diri kita. Kita sudah cukup. Tempat kita disini, Kita sudah berada di tempat yang seharusnya.

It was, she decided, a very good time to die.

never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

I want to make a forest of a moment and live in that forest for ever

The library was a little shelter of civilisation.

They can drive a car thirty miles every day and feel good about themselves for recycling a couple of empty jam jars. They can talk about peace being a good thing yet glorify war. They can despise the man who kills his wife in rage but worship the indifferent soldier who drops a bomb killing a hundred children.

Don't spend your life worrying about what you are missing out on. Not to be Buddhist about it- okay, to be a little Buddhist about it- life isn't about being pleased with what you are doing, but about what you are being.

London, now You understand quite completely that the main reason of history is : humans don't learn from history. The twenty-first century could still turn out to a bad cover version of the twentieth, but what could we do? People's minds across the world were filling with utopias that could never overlap. It was a recipe for disaster, but, alas, a familiar one. Empathy was waning, as it often had. Peace was made of porcelain, as it always was. -how to stop time- C'est vrai.

to be calm becomes a kind of revolutionary act

The silence of not needing to talk. Of just being together, of together-being. The way you could be happily silent with yourself.

War is the answer. To the wrong question.

Not everything is a war, sweetheart.' 'Of course it is