Quotes About Peace

I am optimistic that peace can be achieved in the region because I believe that every society on earth can be free and that if freedom comes to the Middle East, there can be peace.

The only peace that can be made with a dictator is once that must be based on deterrence. For today, the dictator may be your friend, but tomorrow he will need you as an enemy.

The central premise behind Oslo was that if Arafat were given enough legitimacy, territory, weapons and money, he would use his power to fight terror and make peace with Israel.

Unfortunately, little attention was paid to how Arafat ruled. In fact, some saw the harsh and repressive nature of Arafat's regime as actually bolstering the prospects for peace.

Arafat rejected the deal because, as a dictator who had directed all his energies toward strengthening the Palestinians hatred toward Israel, Arafat could not afford to make peace.

By focusing once and for all on helping the Palestinians build a free society, I have no doubt that an historic compromise between Israelis and Palestinians can be reached and that peace can prevail.

What does it mean to be safe in the world?

The man who forgives is far stronger than the man who fights.

But whether he was happy or not it is hard to say. Probably he was neither, just as a plant is neither. He had memories to disturb him and a plant hasn't, but after the first bad night his memories were quiet.

May your life be like a wildflower, growing freely in the beauty and joy of each day.

I love the stars. Because they can't say anything. I love the stars. Because they do not judge anyone.

Sometimes...I just want to run away from it all

You flounder through life, struggling desperately so you won't drown, even though you would float if you'd just relax.

And if when everything ends, nothing is left in my hands...that's alright.

If only we'd been born into a kind world...without anxiety...without fear. If we could live without hurting other people...and without being hurt. A world in which we always did what was right. If only we could have found a shortcut to the kind world we all hope for.

I want to live my life without troubling anyone. That's why it's best for me to keep my interactions... with others to the bare minimum...not that I've ever been the type of person to attract other people...but if I keep my distance...at least I won't bother anyone.

I love the stars. Because they can't say anything. I love the stars. Because they do not judge anyone.

At the end of the day, to sit in my garden is to finally awaken

The mountains, I become a part of it... The morning mists, the clouds, the gathering waters, I become a part of it.

To include the term AHIMSA in the preamble of the Indian Constitution.

The acceptance of the reality that we are in the Lord's loving hands is only a recognition that we have never really been anywhere else.

Within what is allotted to us, we can have spiritual contentment.

Finally, Rønneberg, the leader of Gunnerside and the last surviving saboteur, who was ninety-six years old in 2016, often spoke eloquently about why he braved the North Sea to be trained in Britain and why he then returned, twice, by parachute, to Norway. "You have to fight for your freedom," he said. "And for peace. You have to fight for it every day, to keep it. It's like a glass boat; it's easy to break. It's easy to lose.

You have to fight for your freedom," he said. "And for peace. You have to fight for it every day, to keep it. It's like a glass boat; it's easy to break. It's easy to lose.