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Quotes About Peace

War will end when people stop showing up for it.
~ George Carlin
I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.
~ George Eliot
Joy and peace are not resignation: resignation is the willing endurance of a pain that is not allayed – that you don't expect to be allayed. Stupefaction is not resignation: and it is stupefaction to remain in ignorance – to shut up all the avenues by which the life of your fellow-men might become known to you. I am not resigned: I am not sure that life is long enough to learn that lesson. You are not resigned: you are only trying to stupefy yourself.
~ George Eliot
She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
~ George Eliot
Even when she was speaking, her soul was in prayer reposing on an unseen support.
~ George Eliot
The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.
~ George Eliot
Não vale a pena uma pessoa preocupar-se muito seja com o que for (...)
~ George Eliot
Ah, I often think it's wi' th' old folks as it is wi' the babbies, said Mrs. Poyser; they're satisfied wi' looking, no matter what they're looking at. It's God A'mighty's way o' quietening 'em, I reckon, afore they go to sleep.
~ George Eliot
Even in 1831 Lowick was at peace, not more agitated by Reform than by the solemn tenor of the Sunday sermon. The
~ George Eliot
There is no more to be said. Things cannot be altered, and who cares? It makes no difference to any one else what we do. We must try not to care ourselves. We must not give way. I dread giving way. Help me to he quiet.
~ George Eliot
O father, said Eppie, what a pretty home ours is! I think nobody could be happier than we are.
~ George Eliot
She was no longer wresting with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
~ George Eliot
These things have not changed. The sunlight and shadows bring their old beauty and waken the old heart-strains at morning, noon, and eventide; the little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty; and men still yearn for the reign of peace and righteousness
~ George Eliot
Who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rests in unvisited tombs.
~ George Eliot
Worry is common, it's not good for us, it accomplishes little, and it dishonors the God who cares for us. Worry may be our most enduring form of unbelief.
~ George Foster
Like other spiritual fruit, joy must be cultivated.
~ George Foster
In threatening times like these, what good is a peace that demands a controlled environment? We need a peace of heart and mind to see us through the storm when our environment goes berserk.
~ George Foster
Joy is found in Jesus when we rejoice in Him. We can rejoice our way to joy!
~ George Foster
Love one another.
~ George Harrison
All I've got to be is be happy
~ George Harrison Blow Away
He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.
~ George Herbert
Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.
~ George Herbert
Peace, prattler.
~ George Herbert
forgiveness is actually for yourself: until you forgive, you carry the burden and the weight of the grief.
~ George Kohlrieser