Quotes About Peace

W ogrodzie szuka si? oddechu i g??bokiego spokoju; nie ma nikogo; tylko samotne kwiatki i szepcz?ce drzewa.

Outward calm prevailed in the room, subdued voices, the tranquillity of fancy-work, and the peace of albums; yet Anna could not avoid a chilled impression, a feeling as though each person present were distrustful of the others, and more or less on the defensive.

the teeming plant life rejoices on the lawns free from all interference from men and hoes;

And while I ate muffins—things I had never been able even to look at in London, but now swallowed with complacence,—and Pincher sat in front of me watching every mouthful, just as though he hadn't had an enormous dinner a few minutes before, and the cat, finished with Knobbie's ears, deftly turned her over and began tidying her stomach, I did feel that my feet were set once more in the path of peace, and that all I had to do was to continue steadily along it.

every day spent here would be a day that made her better, that would bring her nearer to that heaven in which all good and simple souls dwelt while still on earth, the heaven of a serene and quiet mind. Always she had longed to be good, and to help and befriend those who had the same longing but in whom it had been partially crushed by want of opportunity and want of peace.

Doing nothing is opting for the sweetness of stillness...Instead of fighting with that which you cannot control, you might as well just see it through...

No one who had never been depressed like me could imagine that the pain would get so bad that death became a star to hitch up to, a fantasy of peace someday which seemed better than any life with all this noise in my head.

Properly practiced, knitting soothes the troubled spirit, and it doesn't hurt the untroubled spirit either.

Never was there any one so beautiful as [he]... The wolves did not ravage, the frost winds did not bite...

What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be

Sometimes we look at outcomes in this life, seeking the reassurance of a happy ending, and it's just not there. What then? As Betty put it, His ways are inscrutable. So we have to rest, not in the peace of a pretty story, but in the reality of faith in a Person we cannot see.

Humility is perfect quietness of heart. It is to expect nothing, to

There never was, for all I could ever learn, a time when living was easy and peaceful.

He prayed as he breathed, forming no words and making no specific requests, only holding his heart, like broken birds in cupped hands

Then sleep easy, said Cadfael, for God is awake.

I can't forget things that way. There's only one thing for it, and that's to admit everything and accept everything, and find some way of living that doesn't mean always sitting on top of a chest of grudges, trying to keep the lid from opening.

When you have done everything else, perfecting a conventual herb-garden is a fine and satisfying thing to do.

more impenetrable solitudes

I'm full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm.

and he had to have freedom-not even that, just to read and sleep in peace, without a uniform-sooner still.

Afterwards they turned in and slept for twelve glorious hours without a single interruption.

The simple act of sailing had carried him beyond the world of reversals, frustrations, and inanities. And in the space of a few short hours, life had been reduced from a highly complex existence, with a thousand petty problems, to one of the barest simplicity in which only one real task remained—the achievement of the goal.

I long for some rest, free from thought.

Till the war drum throbbed no longer and the battle flags were furledIn the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world.