Quotes About Peace

All my life I've taken photographs of people who are completely at peace being what they were in the situations I photographed them in.

Gerdi didn't really understand.Cammy liked being quiet.She liked bingo.She wouldn't mind living in a cozy little hole,like a rabbit.

I fantasize about having a manual job where I can come home at night, read a book and not feel responsible for what will happen the next day.

Sometimes, a girl just has to dive under the duvet and regroup.

The dead can forgive. The dead can be forgiven. The rest of us have better things to do. (Monza Murcatto)

A minister stands for Father Peace, but a good one is no stranger to Mother War.

Jezal swallowed and hunched his shoulders, watching the chunks of long dead wood file slowly past like rows of tombstones. "I don't like this," he muttered under his breath. "You think I do?" Bayaz frowned grimly over at him. "You think any of us do? Men must sometimes do what they do not like if they are to be remembered. It is through struggle, not ease, that fame and honor are won. It is through conflict, not peace, that wealth and power are gained.

In violent times folk like to kneel to violent men. In peaceful times they remember they're happier standing.

Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.

She would see the sun set behind the mountain and listen for the whip-poor-wills after dark. And she would be right where she needed to be. Perhaps she was home.

Without books, a library was just a quiet room.

War is not natural. We have to be trained for it, soldiers and citizens alike.

Make somebody happy today. Mind your own business.

One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything every night before you go to bed.

Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head.

If you have love in your life it can make up for a great many things you lack. If you don't have it, no matter what else there is, it's not enough.

Waters? A little sunshine never did anyone any harm.

Later that night, Sylvie sat in bed with a book open in her lap. She was too sleepy to read, but the proximity of the book was comforting. Telling

The snow fell softly on the street. It muffled sound. It sent people scurrying homeward, so that the street was soon deserted, empty, quiet. And it could have been any street in the city, for the snow laid a delicate film over the sidewalk, over the brick of the tired, old buildings; gently obscuring the grime and the garbage and the ugliness.

There are times when I have had to make peace with the fact that I am at war.

Why all this terror?' said he, in a tremulous voice. 'Hear me, Emily: I come not to alarm you; no, by Heaven! I love you too well- too well for my own peace.

I know now why God gave us babies. They require constant attention, of course. They make messes and disturb the peace, but their cuteness and smiles are something the only reminder of God we have in the house.

Even though many of us are working very hard at it, we rarely, if ever, experience the joy and peace that are promised in the Bible. So what's the problem? Perhaps we are still holding the reins of our lives too tightly, afraid to surrender ourselves to God's Spirit.

Yet solitude is still to be prized in the craziness of our modern world. Times alone with God and away from daily pressures can help us discern the still, small voice of God.