Quotes About Peace

To things greater than all things are,   The first is Love, and the second War.   And since we know not how War may prove,   Heart of my heart, let us talk of Love!

The air was full of all the night noises that, taken together, make one big silence

Go, and peace go with thee. Only, another time do not meddle with my game.

Hathi, the wild elephant, who lives for a hundred years and more, saw a long, lean blue ridge of rock show dry in the very centre of the stream, he knew that he was looking at the Peace Rock, and then and there he lifted up his trunk and proclaimed the Water Truce

May no ill dreams disturb my rest, Nor Powers of Darkness me molest. —Evening Hymn.

One of the things that has to be learned is that even sorrow cannot be had in peace, because other people have sorrows too.

My nation, as all nations, is becoming a land without peace, without thought, without mind, Madam Abbess. We are suffocating our spirits in commercial and material things. This is not envy, said Mr. Konishi earnestly. I am a rich man, with much business, so I have succeeded in all these things, but I know that they are empty.

That trains mostly stay on rails, that the streets are mostly peaceful, that the square continues green and quiet below my window is more than I have any right to expect, and it happens every day.

slowly, meditation gives our amygdala a chance to make more calm and measured assessments of situations.

Zazen is better than a home. Zazen is a home that you can't ever lose.

Think not-thinking. How do you think not-thinking? Nonthinking. This is the essential art of zazen.

If his medium had been words instead of war, he would have been a poet.

Old Jiko says that nowadays we young Japanese people are heiwaboke.112 I don't know how to translate it, but basically it means that we're spaced out and careless because we don't understand about war. She says we think Japan is a peaceful nation, because we were born after the war ended and peace is all we can remember, and we like it that way, but actually our whole lives are shaped by the war and the past and we should understand that.

It is not true, what I said before, because I hated him. He was the war criminal, and after the war they hanged him. I was so happy I wept for joy when I heard he was dead. Then I shave my head and took the vow to stop hating.

I don't hate anybody.

Blessed Stars, please make this world into a place where we will never again be forced to kill an enemy whom we cannot hate. Were such a thing to come about, I would not complain even if my body were torn to pieces again and again.

noise-canceling headphones

He was like the Crow Captain. He didn't want to support a war that he hated, and he didn't want to cause any more suffering, even for his so-called enemy.

A paradox for sure, but such a relief.

Maketa," I said, throwing myself down in the sand. "I lost. The ocean won." She smiled. "Was it a good feeling?" "Mm," I said. "That's good," she said. "Have another rice ball?

Waited for the Library to settle into the deep, dark silence of slumbering books, and words tucked in between their covers for the night.

And yet, at night I lie on my bed, counting my beads, one for every thing on earth I love, on and on, in a circle without end.

Don't hate anyone," she had said. "It's quite useless and harms the hater while it does nothing at all to the hated." So

therapy, a quick assuagement. But there