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Quotes About Peace

Let us not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around us in awareness.
~ James Thurber
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
~ James Thurber
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around us in awareness.
~ James Thurber
The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry.
~ James Truslow Adams
I hope I die in the night.
~ Donna Tartt
The silence between us was happy and strange, connected by the cord and the icy voices thinly echoing. "You don't have to talk," she said. "If you don't feel like it." Her eyelids were heavy and her voice was drowsy and like a secret. "People always want to talk but I like being quiet.
~ Donna Tartt
The woods were silent, not a sound. Henry smiled. Why, looking for new ferns, he said, and took a step towards him.
~ Donna Tartt
If we're not at peace, we are in an ego state.
~ Doreen Virtue
while it's true that challenges do make us grow, the angels also say that peace leads to even bigger growth spurts. Through peace, our schedules and creativity are more open to giving service. Through peace, our bodies operate in a healthy fashion. Through peace, our relationships thrive and blossom. Through peace, we are shining examples of God's love.
~ Doreen Virtue
Let us put an end to the teaching and the preaching of hate and evil and violence. Let us turn away from the fanatics of the far left and the far right, from the apostles of bitterness and bigotry, from those defiant of law and those who pour venom into our nation's bloodstream.
~ Doris Kearns Goodwin
There I go When my heart all worn by grief Sinketh low. Where my baseless hopes do lie There to find my peace, go I. Sad and slow . . 
~ Doris Kearns Goodwin
us put an end to the teaching and the preaching of hate and evil and violence. Let us turn away from the fanatics of the far left and the far right, from the apostles of bitterness and bigotry, from those defiant of law and those who pour venom into our nation's bloodstream."10
~ Doris Kearns Goodwin
Eleanor had defended over the years, that the money spent on arms would be much better spent on education and medical care.
~ Doris Kearns Goodwin
The world is only tolerable because of the empty places in it...when the world's filled up, we'll have to get hold of a star. Any star. Venus, or Mars. Get hold of it and leave it empty. Man needs an empty space somewhere for his spirit to rest in.
~ Doris Lessing
Yes, cannibals. People are just cannibals unless they leave each other alone.
~ Doris Lessing
So love is rest? The cosy corner? The little nook? Sometimes it ought to be. Sometimes it is.
~ Doris Lessing
a family wanting no more than to live without challenge or drama could easily find a quiet street, and peace, provided they were fortunate enough to live in a comparatively sheltered and favoured geographical area, and provided they were able to make the mental adjustment to relegate war - and its consequences - into something that happened elsewhere and did not affect them; or something that had happened to them, but between such and such dates, and then taken itself off.
~ Doris Lessing
He had decided not to be angry: it was killing him.
~ Doris Lessing
Hushabye baby lulled by the storm if you don't harm her she'll do you no harm
~ Doris Lessing
M?i ng??i ??u ch? là k? ?n th?t ng??i n?u như không ?? cho nhau ???c yên.
~ Doris Lessing
nie do??, ?e jej ukochana babcia zmarÅ'a w bombardowaniu, to jeszcze jej matka z tego wzglÄ™du te? prawdopodobnie siÄ™ nigdy nie urodziÅ'a, wiÄ™c nie do?? ?e jest sierotÄ…, to jeszcze sama nawet te? nie istnieje ani nigdy nie istniaÅ'a i tak jest lepiej dla nich wszystkich, a zwÅ'aszcza dla wszystkich innych wszystkich, a przede wszystkim najlepiej jest dla mnie, bo mam tu Å›wiÄ™ty spokój i dla siebie caÅ'y pokój.
~ Dorota Mas?owska
The war between England and Scotland was in its eighth year and there had been no raid for ten days: it had seemed possible to get married in peace.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
I dislike untidy wars, as I dislike untidy peacemaking.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
Where there had been peace, now there was endurance. "He will awake," said Nostradamus. "You took a great risk, but he will awake, if that is what you want for him.
~ Dorothy Dunnett