Quotes About Peace

may yet find refuge from the storms of the world in the cheerful house of love.

Nations are fortunate to have such leaders in time of conflict, but there are also advantages in leaders who avoid conflict in the first place.

As George Orwell wisely observed a generation later, the only way swiftly to end a war is to lose it.

Machiavelli observed that 'wars begin when you will, but do not end when you please'.

it is a constant of history that nations which start wars find it very hard to stop them.

Nuestra misión actual es, antes bien, asegurar que en el futuro no vuelva a perderse la capacidad para la teoría y para la acción que nace de esta [...] Debemos luchar para que la humanidad no quede desmoralizada para siempre por los terribles acontecimientos del presente, para que la fe en un futuro feliz de la sociedad, en un futuro de paz y digno del hombre, no desaparezca de la tierra.

los filósofos han concertado la paz con el mundo, mientras que en otro tiempo estar desunido con él pertenecía a la esencia de la filosofía. Schopenhauer y Nietzsche, desobedientes de la gran filosofía, anticiparon en sus vidas la nueva soledad del pensador.

Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts.

You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace.

We may speak about a place where there are no tears, no death, no fear, no night; but those are just the benefits of heaven. The beauty of heaven is seeing God.

How can a person deal with anxiety? You might try what one fellow did. He worried so much that he decided to hire someone to do his worrying for him. He found a man who agreed to be his hired worrier for a salary of $200,000 per year. After the man accepted the job, his first question to his boss was, "Where are you going to get $200,000 per year?" To which the man responded, "That's your worry.

The grasshoppers are all right.

Maxim Maximovich Litvinov

The images of peace are ephemeral. The language of peace is subtle. The reasons for peace, the definitions of peace, the very idea of peace have to be invented, and invented again

This liberty will look easy by and by when nobody dies to get it.

I have now reigned above fifty years in victory or peace," said the Caliph Abd al-Rahman I, the eighth-century ruler of Iberia, "beloved by my subjects, dreaded by my enemies, and respected by my allies. Riches and honors, power and pleasure, have waited on my call, nor does any earthly blessing appear to have been wanting to my felicity. In this situation, I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot; they amount to fourteen.

Therapeutic forgiveness cuts out, eradicates, cancels, makes the wrong as if it had never been. Therapeutic forgiveness is like surgery.

Today I am more convinced than ever that what each of us really wants, deep down, is more life. Happiness, success, peace of mind

each of us really wants, deep down, is more life. Happiness, success, peace of mind, or whatever your own conception of supreme good may be, is experienced in its essence as more life.

We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.

The moral dilemma is to make peace with the unacceptable

I don't need more anger. I just want to move on...

Forgiveness is the greatest gift you can give yourself.

Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future. Jobs, family, employers, and friends can exist one day without any one of us, and if our egos permit us to confess, they could exist eternally in our absence. Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us.