Quotes About Peace

Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable.

OPTIMISTS' CLUB CREED Promise yourself… To be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. To talk health, happiness, prosperity to every person you meet. To make all your friends feel that there is something of value in them. To look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true.

The way to go from discord to harmony is to go from concentrating on differences to concentrating on similarities.

When you're grateful, there is no fear; when

when you're grateful, there is no anger. Sir

Rest and quiet are the comforts of those who have been content to remain in obscurity.

What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?

Fighting! There's no fighting wanted, as you know well enough. Men don't fight nowadays.

Blessed are the peace-makers,' miss, 'for they shall be called the children of God.

When last days are coming, they should be allowed to come and to glide away without special notice or mention. And as for last moments, there should be none such. Let them ever be ended, even before their presence has been acknowledged.

Who were the happy people that were driven neither by ambition, nor poverty, nor greed, nor the cross purposes of unhappy love, to stifle and trample upon their feelings?

Not so Mrs. Proudie. This lady is habitually authoritative to all, but to her poor husband she is despotic. Successful as has been his career in the eyes of the world, it would seem that in the eyes of his wife he is never right. All hope of defending himself has long passed from him; indeed he rarely even attempts self-justification, and is aware that submission produces the nearest approach to peace which his own house can ever attain.

CHAPTER XI FROM IMPINGTON GORSE

the Duke of Wellington placed the peace and welfare of that actual United Kingdom above religious scruples and decided that Emancipation was necessary to secure it. The religious scruples included those of the sovereign, swept aside at the end in a masterly way that only Wellington could manage.

Anti-Catholicism in England was certainly not eliminated in 1829, just as permanent peace was certainly not achieved in Ireland.

When silence takes possession of you; when far from the racket of the human highway the sacred fire flames up in the stillness; when peace, which is the tranquillity of order, puts order in your thoughts, feelings, and investigations, you are in the supreme disposition for learning; you can bring your materials together; you can create; you are definitely at your working point; it is not the moment to dwell on wretched trifles, to half live while time runs by, and to sell heaven for nothings.

Se un giorno muoio – si disse – voglio che il cielo sia come in questo istante.

Napoleon had said on the eve of his invasion in 1812: 'Avant deux mois, la Russie me demandera la paix.

Had she not earned freedom from turmoil? From fear and pain?

Nobody can live a continuous lie and find serenity.

Exactly. My heart wouldn't have been at peace even though I was being outwardly helpful, which suggests a betrayal of my original desire to help.

You need only to identify the relationships, places, memories, activities, book passages, and so on, that have that kind of power for you, and then remember to search them out when you feel war rising within you. When you've accessed such a place—an internal vantage point where peace remains—you can begin to ponder your challenges anew.

Lasting solutions to the battles in our workplaces, homes, and battlefields will come only as we end the war in our souls.

So, Mr. Herbert," Mei Li continued, looking at Lou once more, "did it make a difference to Jenny? I don't know. But it made a difference to me. It helped me keep a heart at peace. And I think that might have made a difference to her. Like Yusuf and Avi always tell us, we can't be agents of peace until our own hearts are at peace.