Quotes About Peace

Those who are free don't want anything. They don't want anything from their mind, they don't want anything from their emotions, they don't want anything from anyone, and they don't want anything from life. They don't want anything. If you don't want, all that's left is an incredible sense of being free.

There's no way to become happy. We simply need to stop doing the things that make us unhappy.

We have to realize that spirit is an infinite potential that includes everything. And all of our lives are proof that our spiritual nature contains everything at once—that we can become clear or confused, that we can act loving or cruel. How we act and feel depends on how awake we are, and how much we experience that silence, that peace, within.

The Buddha image shows us abiding tranquility amidst the turning wheel of life.

Awareness is not trying to change things; awareness is not trying to fixing anything. You can start to notice that there is this presence of awareness within you, which is not trying to change your humanness. It's not trying to alter you. Just as important, it's not trying to alter others. This awareness is totally inclusive. It is a state of being where everything is okay simply the way it is.

Enlightenment is nothing more than the complete absence of resistance to what is.

True Meditation is effortless stillness, abidance as primordial being.

When this unification occurs, there's a simplicity to life, a deep sense of freedom and essential well-being and also of fearlessness.

I have found that one of the keys to really being free is to live in the same way as you meditate.

To many mortals silence great gain brings.

Tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.

To be well prepared for war is the best guarantee of peace.

Contentment with our lot is an element of happiness.

Be satisfied with what you have.

Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear.

It is not work that kills, but worry

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.

That's peace - real peace. To come to the end - not to have to go on... Yes, peace.

Some of us, in the words of the divine Greta Garbo, want to be alone.

I just woke up feeling happy this morning. You know those days when everything in the world seems right.

I feel that if I could sweep all this away . . . all the buildings and the sects and the fierce squabbling churches . . . that I might see Christ's quiet figure riding into Jerusalem on a donkey--and believe in him.

It is well at any price to have peace in the home.

Do you like sitting here looking out to the sea?" - Vera E. Claythorne

If there were only any peace in Egypt I should like it better," said Mrs. Allerton. "But you can never be alone anywhere. Someone is always pestering you for money, or offering you donkeys, or beads, or expeditions to native villages, or duck shooting.