Quotes About Peace

The secret of contentment lay in ignoring many things completely.

I like when it rains hard.It sounds like white noise everywhere,which is like silence but not empty.

Which was what she hated about the countryside, no distraction from the dirty messed-up workings of the heart.

There's something about rushing water that I can watch for hours and feel as if I need to do nothing more. It's alive in a way that's greater than any description of it...

When soldiers go home, their first desire, whether they know it or not, is to have children, children being the only antidote for war.

Don't worry about things that you simply cannot know. Let them fall back and recede like the foam pushed aside by the flanks of a ship. Leave them behind and let your heart power on.

the greater the stillness, the farther you could travel, until, in absolute immobility, you achieved absolute speed.

nonviolent force is a moral argument. The lesson is that if the nonviolent side can be led to violence, they have lost the argument and they are destroyed.

Violence requires few ideas, but nonviolence requires imagination.

Now, at peace, Jordan has few resources but is full of plans. Mohammed Noufal observed with a smile, "All we need is Israel's technology, Egypt's workers, Turkey's water, and Saudi Arabia's oil, and I am sure we can build a paradise here.

It is always easier to promote war than peace, easier to end the peace than end the war, because peace is fragile and war is durable.

Mark Kurlansky

The true expression of nonviolence is compassion, which is not just a passive emotional response, but a rational stimulus to action.

while every major language has a word for violence, there is no word to express the idea of nonviolence

la violencia es real y la no violencia no lo es. Pero cuando la no violencia se hace real es una fuerza poderosa.

La no violencia, exactamente igual que la violencia, es una forma de persuadir, una técnica para el activismo político, un sistema para prevalecer. La

El hinduismo y Gandhi insisten en que la no violencia no debe proceder jamás de la debilidad, sino de la fuerza, y que solo las personas más fuertes y disciplinadas pueden alcanzarla. Quienes

Jesus was seen as dangerous because he rejected not only warfare and killing but any kind of force. Those in authority saw this as a challenge. How could there be authority without force?

nonviolence is more effective than violence, that violence does not work.

ahimsa, or nonviolence

nuclear deterrents.

We are so unused to emotion that we mistake any depth of feeling for sadness, any sense of the unknown for fear, and any sense of peace for boredom.

Breathe like a fallen leaf and think of nothing. Just breathe and let your heart and mind be carried, however briefly, by the spirit you can't quite see.

In this world, hate never yet dispelled hate. Only love dispels hate. This is the law, ancient and inexhaustible. —BUDDHA