Quotes About Peace

Peace has only one meaning in this Imperium. It's the maintenance of a single way of life.

not compete with what is happening. To compete is to prepare for failure. Do not be trapped by the need to achieve anything. This way, you achieve everything.

A time to get and a time to lose. A time to keep and a time to cast away. A time for love and a time to hate. A time of war and a time of peace.

Do not compete with what is happening. To compete is to prepare for failure. Do not be trapped by the need to achieve anything. This way, you achieve everything

study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

It's lovely to know the world can't interfere with the inside of your head.

It's lovely to know the world can't interfere with the inside of your head.

In ten years, I've never felt so calm. So right. This would be a fine death. . . A fine death. But there are the thousands to think of. . . and Harvey. . . I have to know.

I love the rain. It helps me think.

and I'll be happy here and happy there, full of tea and tears

A true Zen saying: Nothing is what I want.

America is infatuated with this false understanding of tolerance. To be truly tolerant is not to give every idea equal standing or to compromise the truth in the interest of keeping the peace and making everyone happy.

The farm woman bristled. "Young man, we don't tolerate no folks like that in this peace-abiding neighborhood!" Frank could have pointed out the error in her contention, but he said nothing. Thanking her for her hospitality, he departed. He walked down the dirt road to Black Horse Pike, where he sat down and waited to be picked up.

Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you any more.

How about if I sleep a little bit longer and forget all this nonsense

sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.

What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.

Calm —indeed the calmest— reflection might be better than the most confused decisions

Each of us has his own way of emerging from the underworld, mine is by writing. That's why the only way I can keep going, if at all, is by writing, not through rest and sleep. I am far more likely to achieve peace of mind through writing than the capacity to write through peace.

there is nothing bad to fear; once you have crossed that threshold, all is well. Another world, and you do not have to speak

I don't feel particularly proud of myself. But when I walk alone in the woods or lie in the meadows, all is well.

The moonlight lay everywhere with the natural peace that is granted to no other light.

Anyway, it's best not to think about them, as if you do it makes the discussions with the other lawyers, all their advice and all that they do manage to achieve, seem so unpleasant and useless, I had that experience myself, just wanted to throw everything away and lay at home in bed and hear nothing more about it. But that, of course, would be the stupidest thing you could do, and you wouldn't be left in peace in bed for very long either.

The amount of quiet I need does not exist in the world, from which it follows that no one ought to need so much quiet.