Quotes About Peace

True understanding often opens the door to forgiveness.

love to sleep. It's like being dead without the commitment

Relax, c'est la partie la plus fastoche de l'aventure.

Forgiveness is release — to unlock the cage of another's folly to set ourselves free. To not forgive is to chain oneself to people and circumstances of the past. In doing so, our past becomes our future.

Ódio, ressentimento e raiva são parasitas que se alimentam do coração até que não haja nada para nutrir o amor." A Promessa.

Regret is a useless emotion.

Take a good book to bed with you—books do not snore. —Thea Dorn

There will always be people like that. Don't give them your time or your sanity.

It's like they say, holding on to anger is like swallowing poison and hoping someone else will die.

Forgiveness is alchemy. To take something so base and ugly that you don't even want to think of it and turn it into something noble and fine. That is true alchemy. Remember that. It's not always easy, but if you can do that, you'll have a happy life.

We are chained to that which we do not forgive

There was a time in my life when I thought I had everything - millions of dollars, mansions, cars, nice clothes, beautiful women, and every other materialistic thing you can imagine. Now I struggle for peace.

there is no path to peace, but peace itself is the path.

The zone plan drafted by Whitten and published by the Atlanta City Planning Commission in 1922 explained that "race zoning is essential in the interest of the public peace, order and security and will promote the welfare and prosperity of both the white and colored race.

As I drift back into sleep, I can't help thinking that it's a wonderful thing to be right about the world. To weigh the evidence, always incomplete, and correctly intuit the whole, to see the world in a grain of sand, to recognize its beauty, its simplicity, its truth. It's as close as we get to God in this life, and reside in the glow of such brief flashes of understanding, fully awake, sometimes for two or three seconds, at peace with our existence. And then back to sleep we go.

Don't we all seek Guarida, safe haven?

Peace and joy are two main fruits of Christ's kingdom. Let the world be as it will, if we cannot rejoice in the world, yet we may rejoice in the Lord. His presence makes any condition comfortable.

Two things trouble the peace of Christians very much (1), their weaknesses hanging upon them, and (2) fear of holding out for time to come.

Peace and joy are two main fruits of Christ's kingdom. Let the world be as it will, if we cannot rejoice in the world, yet we may rejoice in the Lord.

And the gentleness that comes, not from the absence of violence, but despite the abundance of it.

Here is the part where everyone was happy all the time and we were all forgiven, even though we didn't deserve it.

Oh we're a mess, poor humans, poor flesh—hybrids of angels and animals, dolls with diamonds stuffed inside them. We've been to the moon and we're still fighting over Jerusalem.

I like dead things, says the landscape. They cannot hurt me.

There should be just one safe place in the world