Quotes About Peace

Peace: the fruit of justice done especially to the Self.

I live a very secluded life, a very contemplative life and a very meditative one. That is my ideal life.

For her life, like human life everywhere on the planet, had speeded up and speeded up until peace was rarely possible. Always there was movement, noise, inevitable and constant distraction [. ...] a madness had seized the earth. The madness of speed. As if to speed things up meant to actually go somewhere. And where, after all, was there to go? The present is all there ever is, no matter how much you lean forward or back.

If she come, I be happy. If she don't, I be content. And then I figure this the lesson I was suppose to learn.

Why should the killers of the world be the future and not us?

The news always sound crazy. People fussing and fighting and pointing fingers at other people, and never even looking for no peace.

it was this inner peace that attracted peace around her.

Now. Is this life or not? I be so calm. If she come, I be happy. If she don't, I be content.

Now. Is this life or not? I be so calm. If she come, I be happy. If she don't, I be content. And then I figure this the lesson I was suppose to learn.

People fussing and fighting and pointing fingers at other people, and never even looking for no peace.

The news always sound crazy. People fussing and fighting and pointing fingers at other people, and never even looking for no peace. People insane, say Shug. Crazy as betsy bugs. Nothing built this crazy can last.

You must harmonize your own heart... Only you will know how you can do that; for each of us it is different. Then harmonize, as much as this is ever possible, your surroundings.

To work for peace Means First of all Not to be Ignorant About who Has none.

Quand t'as envie de prier et que l'homme se met devant toi comme si c'était pour lui, envoie-le balader. Pense aux petites fleurs, au vent, à l'eau, à un gros cailloux.

until we make peace with our homes, we can never quite make peace with ourselves.

Peace and order could only be achieved when all classes of society were in harmony with each other. Disorder – such as heresy, rebellion, or trying to get above one's station in life – was regarded as the work of the Devil and therefore as mortal sin.

As the wise Cicero said, "If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

the only pleasure or crutch that smokers receive when they light up, is trying to get back to the level of peace and tranquillity that non-smokers experience the whole of their lives, and that since each cigarette, far from relieving the withdrawal pangs from nicotine, is actually causing them, even that pleasure or crutch is illusory.

for me, is the saddest thing about smoking: the only 'enjoyment' a smoker gets from a cigarette is temporary relief from the discomfort created by the previous one. All the smoker is looking for is the state of peace, tranquility and confidence that they had before they started smoking in the first place.

artificial void

It's best to keep one's resentment to oneself.

What if someone gave a war and Nobody came?

No more to say, and nothing to weep for

Anger falling asleep at the heart