Quotes About Peace

I love having existential crises at bedtime, it's so restful.

I leaned against his side, his irritation oddly comforting. After a moment he grudgingly put his arm around me. The deep quiet was already settling back upon the grove, as if all the fire and rage we'd brought could make only a brief interruption in its peace.

Forging peace between people always outweighed the truth.

You have to make peace with yourself. The key is to find the harmony in what you have.

Success in highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which comes only to the man who has found the work he likes best.

For the maintenance of peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks which forerun cannon-shots.

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind

It is easy to know when a government wishes for peace by observing the character of the person sent to negotiate for it.

The Allied Powers having proclaimed that the Emperor Napoleon is the sole obstacle to the reestablishment of peace in Europe, he, faithful to his oath, declares that he is ready to descend from the throne, to quit France, and even to relinquish life, for the good of his country.

Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.

One must learn to forgive and not to hold a hostile, bitter attitude of mind, which offends those about us and prevents us from enjoying ourselves; one must recognize human shortcomings and adjust himself to them rather than to be constantly finding fault with them.

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.

What a beautiful fix we are in now; peace has been declared.

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Water is always a support or a healing thing apart from, you know, love or peace of mind.

For, through the twilight sounds of crickets and sighing trees, a faint, surprising wisp of music came floating to them and all three turned toward it, toward the wood.

For us the sordid bargaining of our narrowed city lives, the fret and whirl of petty currents that bear us so far from our inner goal-- all were forgotten in that enchanted land.

Visualize a place that you really love, be there, see the details. Now write about it.

I didn't want to die. I just found death soothing to think about.

Please leave, Pierce thought, glaring at Morrow. Please get out of here so my left leg can jerk in peace.

On the other hand, if the free world is concerned with how a new Palestinian leader governs, then the peace process will have a real chance to succeed.

When we are unwilling to draw clear moral lines between free societies and fear societies, when we are unwilling to call the former good and the latter evil, we will not be able to advance the cause of peace because peace cannot be disconnected from freedom.

Only weeks after Oslo began, when nearly all the world and most of Israel was drunk with the idea of peace, I argued that a Palestinian society not constrained by democratic norms would be a fear society that would pose a grave threat to Israel.

To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood.