Quotes About Peace

The night is the color of the eyelids of the dead.

For all that I tried to be more than what I am, I am not more than what I am. It is necessary to be conscious of what we are. The greatest power of your life is to be able to help, and the greatest blessing man has is to be able to live in peace.

God knows our despair. God wants His chosen people to live in peace. God loves life, cares less about death. We need to live. I want to live, I want my children to live. Everyone I know wants to live. You have to ask yourself what is more important to you, life is death. What is this world about - life or death?

The water is your friend. You don't have to fight with water, just share the same spirit as the water, and it will help you move.

A tutti l'"humilis ytalus Dantes Alagherii florentinus et exul inmeritus", esule cioè senza colpa, come ormai da tempo amava definirsi, augurava la pace; li invitava a rallegrarsi per il sorgere di un nuovo giorno e l'arrivo di un nuovo Mosè; ed esortava i discendenti dei Longobardi a ricordarsi di essere innanzitutto Troiani e Romani.

No harm comes to an honest man who minds his own business and knows his place.

He had a favorite sentence which he always used to conclude his harangues on such matters: No harm comes to an honest man who minds his own business and knows his place.

vide quella gran macchina del duomo sola sul piano, come se, non di mezzo a una città, ma sorgesse in un deserto; e fermò su due piedi, dimenticando tutti i suoi guai, a contemplare anche da lontano quell'ottava maraviglia, di cui aveva tanto sentito parlare fin da bambino.

Addio, casa ancora straniera, nella quale la mente si figurava un soggiorno tranquillo e perpetuo di sposa.

perché le guerre fatte senza una ragione sarebbero ingiuste)

i want to go back to bed. but i don't just want to go back to bed.

Todo el mundo necesita belleza en su vida.

The only place where you can regain lost paradises is in yourself

Jabon Sallah

It is better to be here ready to protect the peace than to take blind shelter across the sea, rushing to respond only after freedom is lost. We've learned that isolationism never was and never will be an acceptable response to tyrannical governments with an expansionist intent.

If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day.

If you want rest, you have to take it. You have to resist the lure of busyness, make time for rest, take it seriously, and protect it from a world that is intent on stealing it. History

Rest doesn't just magically appear when we need it,

The supreme quality of great men is the power of resting. Anxiety, restlessness, fretting are marks of weakness. —J. R. SEELEY

The supreme quality of great men is the power of resting. Anxiety, restlessness, fretting are marks of weakness.

As President Lincoln in his final days acknowledged, the only way to win and preserve a peace is to afford the loser some dignity.

His heart is in perfect peace, for He has two great consolations. He has a good conscience: He can say, "I have overcome the world." He has held fast His moral integrity against incessant temptation

I wanted to lead my students to another world, one where people value writing and art more than war, and yet I knew and I know that the only thing that matters is to make that world here. There is no other world. This is the only world we are in. This revisable country, so difficult to change, to easily changed.

Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.