Quotes About Peace

Why does man insist on trying to make his Utopia in the midst of a battleground?

That silence intimidates puzzles me. Silence is to me normal, comfortable." Later he added, "I will admit to feeling a little contempt for those who can't keep quiet.

The life inside a book always felt welcoming to Knight. It pressed no demands on him, while the world of human interactions was so complex.

Two of life's greatest pleasures, by my reckoning, are camping and reading—most gloriously, both at once.

If you like solitude, you're never alone.

Such a display of beauty and happiness is not possible without contentment,

People are to be taken in very small doses," wrote Emerson. "Nothing can bring you peace but yourself." Knight read the Tao Te Ching and felt a deep-rooted connection to the verses. "Good walking," says the Tao, "leaves no tracks.

What I miss most in the woods," Knight said, "is somewhere in between quiet and solitude. What I miss most is stillness." To reach this pristine state, the forest hard-frozen and the animals hunkered, he had to bring himself to the brink of death.

He'd drop his clothes and slip into the water. The lake's top few inches, after cooking all day in the sun, would be nearly bath warm. "I'd stretch out in the water, " he said, "and lie flat on my back, and look at the stars.

Those with less become content," says the Tao, "those with more become confused." The

My desires dropped away. I didn't long for anything. I didn't even have a name. To put it romantically, I was completely free.

The life inside a book always felt welcoming to Knight. It pressed no demands on him, while the world of actual human interactions was so complex.

Get enough sleep," he said. He set his jaw in a way that conveyed he wouldn't be saying any more. This was what he'd learned. I accepted it as truth.

I like being alone. My preferred exercise is solo long-distance running, and my job, as a journalist and writer, is often asocial. When life becomes overwhelming, my first thought—my fantasy—is to head for the woods.

Thomas Merton, the Trappist monk, wrote that nothing can be expressed about solitude "that has not already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.

I am retreating into silence as a defensive mode,

Peace needs the consent of all, while one alone may raise a war.

You priests say to forgive your enemy, and that is well, or revenge follows revenge until eternity. But between a man who will stop at nothing, and one who will hesitate at anything, the advantage is generally to the former. The pagans had it right, too – it is a false peace to be over-forgiving.

We can bomb the world to pieces, but we can't bomb it into peace.

Power to the peaceful!

I guess you know how important I think people are," he states, unqualifiedly, during the series. "When we start thinking about everything in the world, it's the people who are the most important of all." That means all people, not just those who are our friends and allies. And if this is true, we have no reason to kill our enemies, even ones who attack us.

Rogers held that there is not one fact or piece of data that will ever make war (or even preparing for war) morally permissible.

Boys need to learn the value of spiritual solitude. For the soul to grow, it needs those moments of no-stimulation, of wakeful peace. Because we adults don't usually practice enough solitude—because we are always 'doing' things—we often neglect to teach our boys to find solitude

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