Quotes About Peace

What a good thing it is to have in this world one person of whom who need not cherish the smallest fear!

his dearest wish was that he could have a quiet life free from his obligations.

Peace comes from within, do not seek it without.

Not that she objected to solitude. Quite the contrary. She had books, thank Heaven, quantities of books. All sorts of books.

Now I no longer wish to be loved, beautiful, happy or successful. I want one thing and one thing only - to be left alone.

Yo siento que, en lo más hondo de la conciencia colectiva, se está fraguando un tercer movimiento que va cobrando ímpetu. Puede que se convierta en "el movimiento de las mujeres por la paz" esta tercera vez; su meta: detener la violencia mediante la participación de las mujeres en su prevención, en la resolución de conflictos y en la restauración de la paz. La

It was still very wet under the trees. A careless tug at a branch might flip cold rainbow-edged drops down your back. And the sky was gray as concrete. But they enjoyed the silence, the soft sucking ground matted with last year's needles.

Peace is the fruit of love, a love that is also justice. But to grow in love requires work -- hard work. And it can bring pain because it implies loss -- loss of the certitudes, comforts, and hurts that shelter and define us.

The response to war is to live like brothers and sisters. The response to injustice is to share. The response to despair is a limitless trust and hope. The response to prejudice and hatred is forgiveness. To work for community is to work for humanity. To work for peace is to work for a true political solution; it is to work for the Kingdom of God. It is to work to enable every one to live and taste the secret joys of the human person united to the eternal.

True peace can rarely be imposed from the outside; it must be born within and between communities through meetings and dialogue and then carried outward.

We work for peace every time we exercise authority with wisdom and authentic love.

Community and cooperation . . . Communion is based on some common inner expression of love; it is the recognition of being one body, one people, called by God to be a source of love and peace. Its fulfilment is more in silence than in words, more in celebration than in work . . . When a community is just a place of work, it is in danger of dying.

People seem to forget that there is a huge difference between the peace which is a gift of God and passes all understanding, and peace in the psychological sense. If we are living in a dream or illusion, or have certain psychological blocks, we should not be surprised that we become troubled when someone brings us face-to-face with reality. Sometimes we have to lose psychological peace before we can live in true peace.

The next chapter is about belonging: the essential need we have to be and to share with others. The human heart is a place of freedom. We can be obliged to follow the law but not to love, because "true love casts out fear." Our society grows in justice and peace as we allow energies of love and concern for all to rise up in ourselves.

To forgive is a gift of God that permits us to let go of our past hurts.

Peace cannot he imposed by politicians or Churches. Peace has to grow within each person if it is to endure. Our society can only be healed when each person in it is healed.

Peace in the head, peace in the stomach.

We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.

I will work to bring peace to everyone - whatever economic level - as long as you are Haitian.

Pa gen lape nan tet, si pa gen lape nan vant (there is no peace in the head if there is no peace in the stomach).

We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.

I think that it's always appropriate for Americans and for American foreign policy to make clear why we feel that self-government is most compatible with peace, the well-being of people, and human dignity.

We have war when at least one of the partes to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.