Quotes About Peace

A real relationship is like a river; the deeper it gets the less noise it makes.

My relationship to plants becomes closer and closer. They make me quiet; I like to be in their company.

Real security can only be found in that which can never be taken from you - your relationship with God.

If you don't have a good relationship with the now, you don't have a good relationship with life.

Our relationship with God will never be right as long as our relationship with others is wrong.

On a level of simple personal survival, understanding and forgiveness are crucial... whether in an intimate personal relationship or on a global level.

Attachment to being right creates suffering. When you have a choice to be right, or to be kind, choose kind and watch your suffering disappear.

It is important from time to time to slow down, to go away by yourself, and simply be.

In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.

When you don't know what to do, get still. The answer will come.

A little less fight and a little more spark, close your mouth and open your heart.

If spacious stillness is missing, the relationship will be dominated by the mind and can easily be taken over by problems and conflict. If stillness is there, it can contain anything.

Why can't we all just get along?

If we are going to be happy and have any chance at growing then we must learn how to forgive others ... and ourselves.

If we can exit a relationship, pressure to reconcile lessens; if we must live with those who have wronged us, we are pushed to reconcile.

All conflict comes from attachment.

Somewhere we know that without silence, words lose their meaning.

Without forgiveness there can be no future for a relationship between individuals or within and between nations.

As believers, our joy and peace are not based in doing and achieving, but in believing. Joy and peace come as a result of building our relationship with the Lord.

Studies of reconciliation in primates have demonstrated that if the relationship value increases between two parties they are more willing to make peace.

Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet

The relationship of the two problems is rather the reverse. To a great extent disarmament is dependent on guarantees of peace. Security comes first and disarmament second.

War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.

People should learn to live in the now. They spend all their time thinking about past glories and worrying about the future. Meanwhile all the moments of spontaneity and beauty they'll ever have in their lives are flitting from future into past without being noticed. That's why there are so many grumpy assholes in the world