Quotes About Peace

the Lake of Shining Waters was blue — blue — blue; not the changeful blue of spring, nor the pale azure of summer, but a clear, steadfast, serene blue, as if the water were past all modes and tenses of emotion and had settled down to a tranquillity unbroken by fickle dreams.

Don't let a three-o'clock-at-night feeling fog your soul.

Nobody can keep on being angry if she looks into the heart of a pansy for a little while.

I wish every one in the world was as warm and sheltered as we are tonight.

I came to the conclusion, Marilla, that I wasn't born for city life and that I was glad of it. It's nice to be eating ice cream at brilliant restaurants at eleven o'clock at night once in a while; but as a regular thing I'd rather be in east gable at eleven, sound asleep, but kind of knowing even in my sleep that the stars were shining outside and the wind was blowing in the firs across the brook.

After Davy had gone to bed Anne wandered down to Victoria Island and sat there alone, curtained with fine-spun, moonlit gloom, while the water laughed around her in a duet of brook and wind.

Anne, commenting on city life] I think I would probably come to the conclusion that I'd like it for a while... but in the end, I'd still prefer the sound of the wind in the firs across the brook more than the tinkling of crystal.

The happiest countries, like the happiest women, have no history.

It's a dreadful mistake to cherish bitterness for years... hugging it to our hearts like a treasure.

I don't know whether it is any use forgiving people or not. Yes, it is, it makes you feel more comfortable yourself.

Death grows friendlier as we grow older.

I don't want to talk as much,' she said, denting her chin thoughtfully with her forefinger. 'It's nicer to think dear, pretty thoughts and keep them in one's heart, like treasures.

It seemed like a garden where no frost could wither or rough wind blow--a garden remembering a hundred vanished summers.

Marilla, look at that big star over Mr. Harrison's maple grove, with all that hold hush of silvery sky about it. I gives me a feeling that is like a prayer. After all, when one can see stars and skies like that, little disappointments and accidents can't matter so much, can they?

Listen to the trees talking in their sleep," she whispered, as he lifted her to the ground. "What nice dreams they must have!

And she discovered that, while solitude with dreams is glorious, solitude without them has few charms.

It's nicer to think dear, pretty thoughts and keep them in one's heart, like treasures.

God is in His heaven. All is right in the world.

I listen to the sound the sea makes. I like it now though it always makes me feel sorrowful, but it's a kind of a nice sorrow.

If one could only feel always like this, Pat had said once to Judy. All the little worries swallowed up...all the petty spites and fears and disappointments forgotten...just love and peace and beauty. Oh, oh, but what wud there be lift for heaven, girl dear? asked Judy.

God is in heaven, all's right with the world - Anne Shirley

Revenge hurts nobody quite so much as the one who tries to inflict it.

Listen to the bells ringing in Rainbow Valley! I never heard them so clearly. They're ringing for peace--and new happiness--and all the dear, sweet, sane, homey things that we can have again now, Miss Oliver.

Listen to the bells ringing in Rainbow Valley! I never heard them so clearly. They're ringing for peace--and new happiness--and all the dear, sweet, sane, homey things that we can have again now, Miss Oliver. Not that I am sane just now--I don't pretend to be. The whole world is having a little crazy spell today. Soon we'll sober down--and 'keep faith'--and begin to build up our new world. But just for today let's be mad and glad.