Quotes About Peace

even if he wins six billion prize for peace, there will be no peace

Poverty has its advantages. When you're that poor what would you have that anyone would want? Except your peace of mind. Your dignity. Your heart. The important things.

De tan levísimo el oleaje, el mar parecía una laguna. Me quité los zapatos para probar la temperatura del agua, que refulgía blanca bajo el fogaje del sol.

Qué es el corazón que, a veces, tanto duele? - El corazón es eso que tenemos dentro y que la emprende a patadas, o simula paz, o llena de frío o calor nuestra naturaleza. El corazón, Aranmanoth, es el gran depredador.

Weather out the storm in the island of tranquility to find inner peace.

And, on the ocean's crystal mirror,

I shall never forget the peace of his hermitage amidst the eternal snows and the lesson he taught me: that we cannot face the Great Void before we have the strength and greatness to fill it with our entire being. Then the Void is not the negation merely of our limited personality, but the Plenum-Void which includes, embraces and nourishes it, like the womb of space in which the light moves eternally without ever being lost.

To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.

La paix universelle se réalisera un jour non parce que les hommes deviendront meilleurs mais parce qu'un nouvel ordre, une science nouvelle, de nouvelles nécessités économiques leur imposeront l'état pacifique.

his life was gently gliding along like a stream that reflects the heaven and fertilizes the fields.

War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.

The sadness of churches at night moves me; I feel in them the grandeur of nothingness.

Mas se tocarem nos conselhos de guerra – exclamou o senhor de Terremondre –, será o fim do Exército, será o fim do país! Monsieur Bergeret formulou esta resposta: — Quando os padres e os grão-senhores foram privados do direito de enforcar os vilões, acreditou-se que era o fim de tudo. Mas, depressa, viu-se nascer uma nova ordem, superior à antiga. Falo em submeter o soldado, no tempo de paz, ao direito comum.

Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.

The state of being frantic, overextended and distracted drives people away rather than drawing them in and inviting them to the refuge of your company.

The eternal silence of infinite spaces reassures me.

Le silence est une musique qui parle à l'âme.

He would have liked it if everyone could have what he dreamed, glory and love, fortune and peace of heart. [On F. Scott Fitzgerald]

The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passions, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.

Si no llevo la contraria no puedo vivir contenta

The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past

Hitting a ball dead perfect - the only peace.