Quotes About Peace

My escape is to just get in a boat and disappear on the water.

Cross the meadow and the stream and listen as the peaceful water brings peace upon your soul.

You don't extinguish fire by adding more fire, you need water.

I like to work in the morning. I like to sometimes go to a place where I'm all alone where I'm not going to get a phone call early that hurts my feelings, because once my feelings are hurt, I'm dead in the water.

No matter how much we love our family and friends, a part of us needs the occasional moment of solitude as a plant needs water. It is the inmost core of each of us that, that part which nobody can define but which we all recognize because it never changes.

Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose.

Being on a boat that's moving through the water, it's so clear. Everything falls into place in terms of what's important and what's not.

I always tell people, anger is like liquid. It's fluid, it's like water. You put it in a container and it takes the shape of that container. So many people you see in prison, unleashing war on their people, they are angry, and they take their anger and put it into a violent container.

It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.

I have always had a very natural connection to the water, and that connection stems from the ocean itself.

We don't want to end up in a class war. We want everyone to have food, clean water, and a long life expectancy.

If you do your research on hot springs all over the world, they're usually places of peace. People, even in warring nations and so forth, they'll go and live in peace together around the hot springs, which were always considered medicinal. I firmly believe in water therapy.

My great joy these days is giving palm trees water. Simple as that.

Something about being surrounded by water has a really calming effect on me.

The sea was at the bottom of my road, and I seemed to spend my childhood in it or on it, hearing, tasting, smelling it. Now, still, I need to be near water as often as possible.

Water is very forgiving. Everything lifts in water.

To be able to walk out the door when you come home from a job and wander into the garden to do a bit of watering gives you time to be creative in your mind.

I love the smell of rain, and I love the sound of the ocean waves.

A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.

I was happiest between the waves.

I've always been under the impression that it would be such a bummer to be in a peaceful place like Hawaii or the tropics and be stressed about catching waves.

For me, I like to keep it real simple; I just worry about myself, the waves, and my surroundings.

In the '60s we fought for peace, when the Vietnam war was on. We were against the cops and against the politicians, and there was a lot of waving banners and all that. And I think in a way, just as they were enjoying that machoism of war, we were enjoying the machismo of being anti-war, you know?

Secular intellectuals may wax eloquent about 'true Islam' being humane and peaceful, on TV programmes, but it is clear that they have not read any authoritative translations of the Koran, the Sira, and the Hadith.