Quotes About Peace

he came to the conclusion that you cannot depend on people, and that you can live in peace only if you keep them at arm's length.

It was good, really, that this external world still existed, if only as a place of refuge.

comfortable room, knowing

You just bought yourself a world of trouble." "But I ordered one of peace and love. I'd like to return the one of trouble or get a full refund," I said. "I'm pretty sure I have the receipt somewhere.

It's great being dead.

Be careful. Sometimes you don't carry a grudge. It carries you.

It is a sin to hurt someone, so by avoiding violence we do not sin ourselves and by stopping an opponent from hurting us, we prevent him from sinning.

It is said that the only thing deeper than the sleep of the just is the sleep of the just after, but

Finally, by the sea, where God is everywhere, I gradually calmed.

Nothing bothered me, not even the things that bothered me.

He had ignored nature and now turned to her for his salvation, and set about to make peace with her, bowing to her mysteries.

You can never pay too much for peace of mind.

I got some coffee and stood looking at the sky.

He dreamed of amassing musicians from all over the world in Woodstock and they would sit in a field in a circle and play and play. It didn't matter what key or tempo or what melody, they would keep on playing through their discordance until they found a common language. Eventually they would record this abstract universal language of music in his new studio. "The language of peace. You dig?" I did.

I had to keep swatting flies away, but that didn't bother me. Nothing bothered me, not even the things that bothered me.

I felt connected to the modest peace offered with the fare, thinking about nothing. Just wisps of things, meaningless things, like remembering my mother once told me that Van Johnson always wore red socks, even in black and white movies.

Jimi Hendrix] dreamed of amassing musicians from all over the world in Woodstock and they would sit in a field in a circle and play and play. It didn't matter what key or tempo or what melody, they would keep on playing through their discordance until they found a common language. Eventually they would record this abstract universal language of music in his new studio. "The language of peace. You dig?" I did.

I was looking for a quiet place to die.

Each time he took a walk, he felt as though he were leaving himself behind, and by giving himself up to the movement of the streets, by reducing himself to a seeing eye, he was able to escape the obligation to think, and this, more than anything else, brought him a measure of peace, a salutary emptiness within.

he had understood that memory was a place, a real place that one could visit, and that to spend a few moments among the dead was not necessarily bad for you, that it could in fact be a source of great comfort and happiness.

I want to talk about happiness and well being, about those rare, unexpected moments when the voice in your head goes silent and you feel at one with the world.

Peace on earth, good will toward men. Piss on earth, good will toward none.

It was the first time since his master's death that he had been able to think about such things without feeling crushed by sorrow, the first time he had understood that memory was a place, a real place that one could visit, and that to spend a few moments among the dead was not necessarily bad for you, that it could in fact be a source of great comfort and happiness.

That was the real difference, Ferguson concluded. Not too little money or too much money, not what a person did or failed to do, not buying a larger house or a more expensive car, but ambition. That explained why Brownstein and Solomon managed to float through their lives in relative peace—because they weren't tormented by the curse of ambition.