Quotes About Peace

I just want to be healthy and stay alive and keep my family going and everything and keep my friends going and try to do something so that this world will be peaceful. That is the most ambitious and the most difficult thing, but I'm there trying to do it.

If people want to make war they should make a color war, and paint each others' cities up in the night in pinks and greens.

He who is determined to acquire common sense will use the following argument: "Doubt is a conflict between two conclusions. "So long as it exists it is impossible to adopt either. "Serenity is unknown to those whom doubt attacks. "To obtain peace, it is necessary to become enlightened, "However, it is wise always to foresee the least happy issue and to prepare to support the consequences

The desire for knowledge, like the thirst for wealth, increases by acquisition, but as Bishop Lee has told us, "Knowledge without common sense is folly; without method it is waste; without kindness it is fanaticism; without religion it is death." But, Dean Farrar added: "With common sense, it is wisdom; with method it is power; with charity beneficence; with religion it is virtue, life, and peace.

A wise man who knows proverbs reconciles difficulties.

In Udi's vocabulary, Jewish was equated with the ills of exile: rootless parasitic, superstitious. Yet here, in the Western Wall's solitary dignity, was beauty. In this world of stone, he felt softness; in this quarry of memory, peace.

Yossi Klein Halevi

Sometimes, in political arguments with Palestinians, I would be told: Why are we arguing about who owns the land, when in the end the land will own us both?

I don't believe that peace without at least some attempt at mutual understanding can endure. Whatever official document may be signed by our leaders in the future will be undermined on the ground, on your hill and mine. It will be a cold treaty, an unloved peace that will wither and die, or more likely be murdered. If nothing else, the intimacy of our geography makes complete physical separation impossible. And so, to live, we must learn to live together.

I'm sure things will get better. So...it's okay to stop fighting.

In the name of Israel's God, if every man would do right, and when he has done what he knows is right, then stops till he knows what next, there never would be a jar in the camp. And I defy the man to come forward that ever led so large a people in such difficult and trying circumstances, in so much peace, as I have led this people during this campaign, with the help of God and my brethren.

Now, there is no harm in a teapot, even if it contains tea, if it is let alone.

Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person's throat.

Islam is a peaceful religion.

It's better to live an ordinary life. If you go on striving for this and that, you'll end up paying with your life.

Jiazhen ha avuto una bella morte, serena, dignitosa. Non si è lasciata nessun'ombra alle spalle; non come certe donne del villaggio, che anche dopo morte sono oggetto di chiacchiere." Questo vecchio che mi sedeva di fronte usava un tono nel parlare della moglie morta più di dieci anni prima che destava nel mio intimo un senso di ineffabile tenerezza, come un prato verde che vacilla nel vento, vedevo la quiete ondeggiare in un luogo remoto.

This "me" of ten years before lay down amid the leaves and long grass and slept for two whole hours. During this time a few ants crawled up my leg, but even in my deep sleep my finger accurately flicked them off. I felt as if I had come to a shore, and the echoing shouts of an old man poling a bamboo raft seemed to reach my ears from far away. I awakened from my dream, and

A good rest is half the work.

He felt that taking naps was much more beneficial than confronting catastrophes.

In the pale light of daybreak the gravestones looked like so many white sails that would never again be filled with wind, sails that, too long unused and heavily drooping, had been turned into stone just as they were. The boats' anchors had been thrust so deeply into the dark earth that they could never again be raised.

Even though the world might change into the kind I hoped for, it lost its rich charm at the very instant of change. The thing that lay at the far end of my dreams was extreme danger and destruction; never once had I envisaged happiness. The most appropriate type of daily life for me was a day-by-day world destruction; peace was the most difficult and abnormal state to live in.

Once I had started my solitude I realised anew that it was easy for me to become accustomed to this state and that the most effortless existence for me was in fact one in which I was not obliged to speak to anyone. My fretful attitude to life left me. Each dead day had its charm

Os fantasmas do mar, dos navios e das viagens oceânicas existiam apenas nessa gota verde brilhante. Mas, por cada dia que passava, mais os odores abomináveis da vida em terra se colavam ao marinheiro: o cheiro da família, o cheiro dos vizinhos, o cheiro da paz, do peixe frito, das piadas e das mobílias sempre imóveis, o cheiro dos livros de contas da casa e dos passeios de fim-de-semana... todos os cheiros pútridos que os homens de terra deitam, o fedor da morte.

The thought that his own life was about to cease cleansed his heart, the way peppermint cleanses the mouth.