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Quotes About Peace

Winnie the Pooh finds comfort in counting his pots of honey, and Rabbit finds comfort in knowing where his relations are – even if he doesn't need them at the moment.
~ A.A. Milne
When you love what you have, you have everything you need.
~ A.A. Milne
The stars have not dealt me the worst they could do: My pleasures are plenty, my troubles are two. But oh, my two troubles they reave me of rest, The brains in my head and the heart in my breast. Oh, grant me the ease that is granted so free, The birthright of multitudes, give it to me, That relish their victuals and rest on their bed With flint in the bosom and guts in the head.
~ A.E. Housman
Contemplation is not compatible with the complications and burdens of an excessively comfortable life.
~ A.G. Sertillanges
The only sheets I'll ever long for are my own.
~ A.J. Hartley and David Hewson
Rogad por el reposo de su alma. Estaba tan cansada.
~ A.J.A. Symons
Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaining a Great Power is not to fight one.
~ A.J.P Taylor
There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment — and nothing more corrupting.
~ A.J.P. Taylor
nothing more excruciating when you are fighting for your life than to have healthy people round you, squabbling over futilities. Who do you love best, and who most do you want with you? Blithering idiots: it's life itself, can't you see? It's life I love best, and life I want with me. Go hang yourselves, all of you, you're only sapping my strength when most I need it. Leave me in peace and let me grapple.
~ A.P.
God never hurries. There are no deadlines against which he must work. Only to know this is to quiet our spirits and relax our nerves.
~ A.W. Tozer
You never come closer to owning the whole world than when you wake up before everyone else. There
~ Ã…sa Larsson
It is good to feel small beneath the sparkling northern lights, small beside the mighty river. Nature is so close to us up here. My troubles and difficulties just shrivel up. I like being insignificant.
~ Ã…sa Larsson
But I feel a sense of peace when I'm working. Happiness, almost. It's when I'm not working I feel uneasy.
~ Ã…sa Larsson
Lucas chiede: - Non sei mai triste? - No, perché una cosa mi consola sempre di un'altra. (una bambina)
~ Ágota Kristóf
You don't want to fight the enemy anymore?" "I don't want to fight anyone. I have no enemies. I want to go home.
~ Ágota Kristóf
The promise of mutually assured destruction had a way of calming even the fiercest hearts.
~ Aaron Dembski-Bowden
Well, you know what they say: Maybe money doesn't bring happiness, but it sure enough quiets the nerves.
~ Aaron Elkins
I'm not really sure how we've arrived at this ridiculous juncture, and I'd be a great deal happier if we weren't pointing these things at one another, wouldn't you?
~ Aaron Elkins
Remember to Breathe!
~ Aaron Hoopes
A gentle breeze, a rustle of leaves, it's times like this life pleases with ease.
~ Aaron J. Munzer
Don't rush traffic, take your time and relax. -Aaron Jhinkoo
~ Aaron Jhinkoo
Perhaps," the half-breed admitted. "But why fight when there is no need? Why fight just for its own sake? That is not fighting to save anyone, or to win anything, or even for glory. It is fighting from sheer bloodlust, from love of violence alone. And I am sick of that. I want no part of it.
~ Aaron Rosenberg
I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.
~ Abba Eban
Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.
~ Abbie Hoffman