Quotes About Peace

nature loves patience,

Be quiet, Afanasii Ivanovich," said Pulcheria Ivanovna: "you just like to talk, and that's all. A dog is not clean; a dog soils things, and breaks everything: but the cat is a peaceable beast; she does no harm to any one.

Créame, Paviel Ivanovich, que mientras no se abandone aquello por lo que se devoran y se matan la gente en la tierra, y mientras no se piense en el bienestar espiritual, no habrá felicidad ni bienestar en la tierra.

I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.

I hope nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.

How simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. . . . All that is required to feel that here and now is happiness is a simple, frugal heart.

Nothing ever goes wrong." (Tidak ada satu pun yang berjalan keliru)

A quiet mind is all you need.

When the world does not hold and bind you, it becomes an abode of joy and beauty. You can be happy in the world only when you are free of it.

The world is full of contradictions; hence your search for harmony and peace. These you cannot find in the world, for the world is the child of chaos. To find order you must search within.

If you want peace and harmony in the world, you must have peace and harmony in your hearts and minds. Such change cannot be imposed; it must come from within.

The innermost light, shining peacefully and timelessly in the heart, is the real guru. All others merely show the way.

It does not matter much what happens, for ultimately the return to balance and harmony is inevitable. The heart of things is at peace.

It is better we disintegrate in peace and not in pieces.

Don't Let's Be Beastly to the Germans

The things money can't buy, goes the famous quote, you don't want anyway. Which is bullshit, because in truth there is nothing money can't buy. Not really. Love, happiness, peace of mind. It's all available for a price. The fact is, there's enough money on earth to make everyone whole, if we could just learn to do what any toddler knows—share. But money,

Acceptance is the key to happiness. You need to surrender yourself to the truth. You won't be happy until you do.

The more I practiced kindness and humility, the more the world seemed to appear friendly and manageable.

The more my mind began to quiet, the more I found myself wanting to be surrounded by natural beauty.

Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it.

We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won't be a world - at least, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others.

Everyone's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's really an easy way: Stop participating in it.

Let's drink to the spirit of gallantry and courage that made a strange Heaven out of unbelievable Hell, and let's drink to the hope that one day this country of ours, which we love so much, will find dignity and greatness and peace again.