Quotes About Peace

It's the quality of harmony, sir. The quality of being in harmony with you own soul. God having given you your own soul you are then in harmony with Heaven.

Granpa said if there was less words, there wouldn't be as much trouble in the world. He said privately to me that there was always some damn fool making up a word that served no purpose except to cause trouble.

Seemed like you could stretch out your arms on either side and touch the mountains. Straight up they went, dark and feathered with treetops, and left a thin slice of stars above us. Way off, a mourning dove called, long and throaty, and the mountains picked it up and echoed the sound over and over, carrying it farther and farther away until you wondered how many mountains and hollows that call would travel--and it died away, so far, it was more like a memory than a sound.

alcoves, and once or twice he sat down

those it prizes from any aggression they arouse by deflecting it.

If you fill your mind with a beautiful thought, there will be no room in it for an ugly one. - King Amor

lad—what's names to th' Joy Maker

Everything as strange and silent, and she seemed to be hundreds of miles away from anyone, but somehow she did not feel lonely at all.

It used to seem as if she had all the sky and the world to herself.

curled herself up in the window-seat, opened a book, and began to read.

If you lie through the night upon the battlements and think only of the stillness and the stars you will forget your anger and its poison will die away. If you put into your mind a beautiful thought it will take the place of the evil one. There is no room for darkness in the mind of him who thinks only of the stars.

She lay and listened to the quietness.

The stillness seemed to hold her and she paused to hear and feel it.

She knew now why she had come up here. It was so that she might feel like this—as if she was upheld far away from things—as if she had left everything behind—almost as if she had fallen awake again. There was no perfume in the air, but all was still and sweet and clear.

the houses that are important to us are the ones that allow us to dream in peace.

Mainly, I remember recognizing his idea that the house protects the dreamer; the houses that are important to us are the ones that allow us to dream in peace.

Nonviolence is a weapon of the strong -Emma

The happier you are, the less you need.

Okay. I wish for world peace," Weetzie said. "I am sorry," the genie said. "I cant grant that wish. Its out of my league." "Then I wish for an infinite number of wishes!" Those people on fairy tales never thought of that. "People in fairy tales wish for that all the time," the genie said. "They arent stupid. It just isnt in the records because I cant grant that type of wish.

Life was small but good. (15)

I don't know about happily ever after...but I know about happily.

I embody death, not peace. The only choice in this world we have made from our betrayals and our weakness and our greed.

Ferdinando [King of Naples] resolv'd, in good Earnest, to try how to compromise the Affair of the Castles; being persuaded, that that when this Obstacle was remov'd, Matters would easily return into the fame peaceable Channel. But by removing the Causes, the Effects that sprung from them are not always remov'd. For, as it frequently happens, that Resolutions taken out of Fear seldom appear sufficient to the Fearful.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. JOHN F. KENNEDY