Quotes About Peace

Ah, I could lay me down in this long grass And close my eyes, and let the quiet wind Blow over me

I met the wolf alone and was devoured in peace.

And as it went my tortured soul (...) That all about me swirled the dust. Deep in the earth I rested now, Cool is its hands upon the brow And soft its breast beneath the head Of one who is so gladly dead.

GENNARO 'A sta guerra ccà se torna buone… Ca nun se vo' fa' male a nisciuno…»

Me encantan los días de lluvia. Desde chico. Siempre me ha parecido una imbecilidad que la gente hable de "mal tiempo" cuando llueve. ¿Mal tiempo por qué?

I build a kind of wall between myself and t he model so that I can paint in peace behind it. Otherwise, she might say something that confuses and distracts me.

When the situation is hopeless, there's nothing to worry about.

Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now.

In that moment of truce, of utter surrender, when the rabbit still alive offers no resistance but only waits, is it possible that the rabbit also loves the owl?

The night. The stars. The river.

Any meal is a good meal when you're on a good river.

We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to go there.

We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we many never need to go there.

What he wanted was peace, order, and the reassurance of human voices.

Give me silence, water, hope Give me struggle, iron, volcanoes —Neruda

I am twenty miles or more from the nearest fellow human, but instead of loneliness I feel loveliness. Loveliness and a quiet exultation.

Death is release, if you've lived all right.

Fear is the only true enemy, born of ignorance and the parent of anger and hate.

On a level of simple personal survival, understanding and forgiveness are crucial... whether in an intimate personal relationship or on a global level.

In my day," I replied, "it was considered that the proper functions of government, strictly speaking, were limited to keeping the peace and defending the people against the public enemy, that is, to the military and police powers." "And, in heaven's name, who are the public enemies?" exclaimed Dr. Leete. "Are they France, England, Germany, or hunger, cold, and nakedness?

One in All All in One-- If only this is realized, No more worry about your not being perfect (175)

Freedom may come quickly in robes of peace, or after ages of conflict and war; but come it will, and abide it will, so long as the principles by which it was acquired are held sacred.

And I too in Arcadia.

I'd like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony, I'd like to buy the world a Coke and keep it company.