Quotes About Peace

It was a great gift of his, being able to sleep anywhere, at any time, and forget his worries from one second to the next.

If people are only kind to me I'm sure I am the last person to quarrel with anyone.

Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.

You can be right or you can be happy.

The best way to navigate through life is to give up all of our controls.

Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others, but by simply accepting them as they are. True acceptance is always without demands and expectations.

Forgiveness does not mean condoning or agreeing with a horrendous act. It is a decision to no longer attack one's self.

When we find ourselves irritated, depressed, angry, or ill, we can be sure we have chosen the wrong goal and are responding to fear.

Forgiveness is the letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.

Love is the total absence of fear.

I found the Course essential in my struggle for personal transformation. It helped me recognize that I really did have a choice of experiencing peace or conflict, and that this choice is always between accepting truth or illusion.

Do I choose to experience Peace of Mind or do I choose to experience Conflict? Do I choose to experience Love or Fear? Do I choose to be a Love Finder or a Fault Finder? Do I choose to be a Love Giver or a Love Sender? Is this communication (verbal or nonverbal) Loving to the other person and is it Loving to me?

Forgiveness means letting go of the past.

Fear and love can never be experienced at the same time. It is always our choice as to which of these emotions we want...

How simple it is to see that all the worry in the world cannot control the future. How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now. And that there will never be a time when it is not now.

Peace is not something you can force on anything or anyone... much less upon one's own mind. It is like trying to quiet the ocean by pressing upon the waves. Sanity lies in somehow opening to the chaos, allowing anxiety, moving deeply into the tumult, diving into the waves, where underneath, within, peace simply is.

I waited for nothing. And nothing arrived. A deep ice stole its way into my heart. I felt it settle in and numb the valves and quiet the wind that blew inside my frame, heard it set upon my bones and breathe silence into the brittle spaces, everything that was broken. At that moment my heart knew the peace of cold. I gave up on my friend, and the night watch was done, for only his spirit would ever come to me again.

Einem erschlossenen Acker gleichen die Seelen der Menschen an Feiertagen. (Aus: der Apostel 1890)

We've had days of unrest here. The situation is no better than it was a week ago, even if there are no 'incidents' to report. The state of siege continues without interruption. Curfew begins at seven P.M. One might think this would be conducive to work, but the necessary atmosphere of concentration and peace is missing. So we all sit sunk in our armchairs.

Another thing that was striking about him was his extraordinary sensitivity to noise, which he often referred to as his "noise psychosis." It really could disturb him. Once he wrote me: "Do other people manage to have peace and quiet? I'd like to know the answer to that.

There is a certain fine simplicity in a landscape from which the element of water, with all the varied life it brings in it murmuring train, is entirely absent.

She answered him, there is nothing within you that fights itself and hitherto you have had the instinct to produce antagonism in others which stimulated you to attack.

It was an endless variety. And everybody came and no one made any difference. Gertrude Stein sat peacefully in a chair and those who could did the same, the rest stood. There were the friends who sat around the stove and talked and there were the endless strangers who came and went. My memory of it is very vivid.

It is impossible to work out a reduction in nuclear threat as long as one side is going all out to demonize the other.