Quotes About Peace

But then maybe i don't want to know. Maybe it;s nicer not knowing.

I didn't really mind. I loved this drive, this moment.

No matter what religion people choose to live by, I came to realize that their choice is ultimately what is best for them. The holy wars are what get us into trouble. If people minded their own business as far as religion is concerned and didn't get caught up in saving other people's souls, they just might be able to sace their own souls and bless those around them with their contagious state of euphoria. Indeed, the world needs more love.

Trotzdem war es hier gemütlich; es doch nach warmen, gehaltvollen Wörtern und Tiefen Gedanken

Sometimes at night I conduct interviews with myself. What do you want? I don't know. What do you want? I don't know. What seems to be the problem? Just leave me alone.

There is a man who travels around the world trying to find places where you can stand still and hear no human sound. It is impossible to feel calm in cities, he believes, because we so rarely hear birdsong there. Our ears evolved to be our warning systems. We are on high alert in places where no birds sing. To live in a city is to be forever flinching.

My question for Will is: Does this feel like a country at peace or at war? I'm joking, sort of, but he answers seriously. He says it feels the way it does just before it starts. It's a weird thing, but you learn to pick up on it. Even while everybody's convincing themselves it's going to be okay, it's there in the air somehow. The whole thing is more physical than mental, he tells me. Like hackles? The way a dog's hackles go up? Yes, he says.

I tried to figure out if I felt calmer with a blanket over my head. No I did not was the answer.

For fifteen, maybe twenty minutes, she'd suspend her fierce judgment of the world and fall silent there. And when she did, a tiny space would clear in my head and I could think again.

There is a man who travels around the world trying to find places where you can stand still and hear no human sound.

All she wants now is to go somewhere quiet and dark, she says.

Quiet in the cup. Hard to believe that isn't joy, the way it flies away when I fling it out the window.

The Buddhists say there are 121 states of consciousness. Of these, only three involve misery or suffering.

All my life now appears to be one happy moment. This is what the first man in space said.

A visitor asked the old monks at Mount Athos what they did all day and was told: We have died and we are in love with everything.

The Buddhists say there are 121 states of consciousness. Of these, only three involve misery or suffering. Most of us spend our time moving back and forth between these three.

Equality and development will not be achieved however if peace is not understood from women's' point of view.

Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it.

I thought about having a proper room, breathing life into it, and nobody minding.

had prescribed fresh air, quiet, and milk.

Christian contentment is that sweet, inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit, freely submitting to, and taking delight in God's wise, and fatherly disposal in every condition.

It is a special part of the divine worship that we owe to God, to be content in a Christian way, as has been shown to you.

But if I have once overcome my heart, and am contented through the grace of God in my heart, then this makes me content not only in one particular but in general, whatever befalls me.

there is more good in contentment, than there is in the thing that you would fain have to cure your discontent...