Quotes About Peace

anger, as I've said, is incompatible with joy.

Marcus suggests that when we know our death is at hand, we can ease our anguish on leaving this world by taking a moment to reflect on all the annoying people we will no longer have to deal with when we are gone.

Elsewhere, Marcus suggests that when we know our death is at hand, we can ease our anguish on leaving this world by taking a moment to reflect on all the annoying people we will no longer have to deal with when we are gone.

The pursuit of virtue results in a degree of tranquility, which in turn makes it easier for us to pursue virtue.

use our reasoning ability to drive away "all that excites or affrights us.

They warn us to be careful in choosing our associates; other people, after all, have the power to shatter our tranquility—if we let them.

He adds that if we detect anger and hatred within us and wish to seek revenge, one of the best forms of revenge on another person is to refuse to be like him.12

The Stoics' advocacy of sexual reserve will sound prudish to modern readers, but they had a point. We live in an age of sexual indulgence, and for many people the consequences of this indulgence have been catastrophic in terms of their peace of mind.

Seneca: "we are bad men living among bad men; and only one thing can calm us—we must agree to go easy on one another."1 Another thing to keep in mind

He adds that if we detect anger and hatred within us and wish to seek revenge, one of the best forms of revenge on another person is to refuse to be like him.12 S

OTHER PEOPLE, as we have seen, are the enemy in our battle for tranquility. It was for this reason that the Stoics spent time developing strategies for dealing with this enemy

The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.

The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man.

And throughout all eternityI forgive you, you forgive me.

Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.

When the voices of children are heard on the greenAnd laughing is heard on the hill,My heart is at rest within my breastAnd everything else is still.

For all eternity, I forgive you and you forgive me.

When will the dropping of bombs on innocent civilians by the United States, and invading and occupying their country, without their country attacking or threatening the US, become completely discredited?

He fought with Augustus and Peter, not with Russia or Poland. He aimed at full apologies, not conquests.

Why does the sea induce these feelings of transcendence in us? Is it because an unobstructed view of overarching sky meeting endlessly stirring water is as close as we can come on this earth to a visual symbol of the infinite?

Most loving Father, who has taught us to dread nothing but the loss of You, preserve me from faithless fears and worldly anxieties.

endless loving sea of pure white conscious light.

We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather about us that they may see, it may be, their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer, perhaps even with a fiercer life because of our quiet.

When one gets quiet, then something wakes up inside one, something happy and quiet like the stars.