Quotes About Peace

the bigots, whether they are of the Islamist variety or the anti-Muslim variety, essentially agree on a few matters. One is their belief that Islam itself—not Islamism—is a supremacist ideology that is here to take over the world; another is that, therefore, Muslims and non-Muslims can never live equally and peacefully together, but must separate into religiously defined entities.

In my view, the realistic goal to be attained through spiritual practice is not some permanent state of enlightenment that admits of no further efforts but a capacity to be free in this moment, in the midst of whatever is happening. If you can do that, you have already solved most of the problems you will encounter in life.

religious moderates are themselves the bearers of a terrible dogma: they imagine that the path to peace will be paved once each of us has learned to respect the unjustified beliefs of others.

I can think of no right more fundamental than the right to peacefully steward the contents of one's own consciousness.

Islam is a "religion of peace.

Is there a happiness that does not depend upon having one's favorite foods available, or friends and loved ones within arm's reach, or good books to read, or something to look forward to on the weekend? Is it possible to be happy before anything happens, before one's desires are gratified, in spite of life's difficulties, in the very midst of physical pain, old age, disease, and death?

The realistic goal to be attained through spiritual practice is not some permanent state of enlightenment that admits of no further efforts, but a capacity to be free in this moment, in the midst of whatever is happening. If you can do that, you have already solved most of the problems you will encounter in life.

Take responsibility for your life, and you'll gain the power to change it. Be patient and content in all circumstances, and you'll find unshakable peace.

If not for the deer, the men would have shot each other for sport.

but I swore early on that if I ever had a family, I would never expose it to that kind of squabbling.

If a violent person wishes to attack us, let us send him a gentle phrase as this will defuse his violence.

The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.

Happiness, said he, must be something solid and permanent, without fear and without uncertainty.

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

What agreement is there between the hyena and the dog? and what peace between the rich and the poor?BibleEcclus,xiii. 18.2.

A man sometimes starts up a patriot, only by disseminating discontent, and propagating reports of secret influence, of dangerous counsels, of violated rights, and encroaching usurpation. This practice is no certain note of patriotism. To instigate the populace with rage beyond the provocation, is to suspend public happiness, if not to destroy it. He is no lover of his country, that unnecessarily disturbs its peace.

To ACCOUPLE  (ACCO'UPLE)   v.a.[accoupler, Fr.]To join, to link together. He sent a solemn embassage to treat a peace and league with the king; accoupling it with an article in the nature of a request.Bacon'sHenry VII.

Why should the guiltless tremble so, when the guilty can possess their minds in peace?

America, for once in its brief and not always glorious history, must try to learn that its own experience is peculiar in world history, that it has been unusually fortunate in coming to maturity in an epoch of untypical peace and prosperity, and that it cannot continue to judge the world by the norm of its own mythology.

In nature there is nothing melancholy

Tis calm indeed! so calm, that it disturbs And vexes meditation with its strange And extreme silentness.

across hers. "How did you sleep?

for pleasing to me are meadows and a far view

The bitterness of living in a mess remains long after the sweetness of resting is forgotten.