Quotes About Peace

When we surrender when we do not fight with life when it calls upon us we are lifted and the strength to do what needs to be done finds us.

Once in a while, we are given moments of real grace.

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.

An order of government, established by such an all-wise, powerful being, must be good and perfect, and must be calculated to promote the permanent peace, happiness, and well-being of all his subjects.

Wouldn't it have been better to change humanity so it no longer desired to destroy itself?

Pascal and his brilliant exposition in Pensées. "I have often said," Pascal wrote, "that the sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his own room."46

O American people, I am speaking to tell you about the ideal way to avoid another Manhattan, about war and its causes and results.

If you [Americans] are sincere in your desire for peace and security, we have answered you.

When I lay next to her my body was enveloped in her current, which mingled with my own harsher current of gloom like a " withered leaf settling to rest on the stones at the bottom of a pool." I had freed myself from fear and uneasiness.

Women sleep so soundly they seem to be dead. Who knows? Women may live in order to sleep.

But in my softness I find peace, however fleeting.

To break free from this vexatious and awful never-ending cycle, this flood of outrageous thoughts, and to long for nothing more than simply to sleep—how clean, how pure, the mere thought of it is exhilarating.

I wanted to maintain the illusion of peace and harmony even one day, even one moment. Longer. Dreading above all the thought of giving people such a frightful shock, I acted out the temporizing lie as if my life depended on it. I was forever doing that: backing myself further into a corner as I contemplated my own death.

I felt, rather, as if being next to her in itself made it unnecessary to worry.

Lord Hamlet, maybe you alone are the evil one. You insert yourself where everyone is living peacefully and amicably, and you spout complex reasoning and attack everyone, making them suffer, saying that in this world only your love is pure and devoted.

Father," I tried calling out. Father. Father, the sunset afterglow is beautiful.

the tension in my heart had melted into something akin to a sensation of happiness, peace of mind one might even say, at the realisation that I had now reached the very bottom of agony.

I can cheat fear today - but won't it return tomorrow? Rather, I must embrace this fear... and find peace in its bosom.

It is essential that justice be done, it is equally vital that justice not be confused with revenge, for the two are wholly different.

Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.

Peace is a never ending process... It cannot ignore our differences or overlook our common interests. It requires us to work and live together.

Achieving world peace, or peace on Earth requires a strong emphasis on knowledge, openness, freedom of information and dialogue.

Don't go looking for trouble rather avoid it.

Everyone wants to lead a peaceful, happy life, but happiness and success aren't measured by how much money you have, but by whether you have inner peace in your heart.