Quotes About Peace

Living in a house with a large library," she said, "is a little like living in heaven

Idleness was so often despised. And yet it was on idleness, she knew, that one touched meaning and peace.

Perhaps we should do the learning - and learn not to communicate, or to do it in a different way. Now there is a thought. Perhaps we could learn your peace if we could share your silence.

Why had peace given place so soon to turmoil? To two separate solitudes? Because peace had been without thought? Without...integrity? How could she have felt like that without love? Was love essential? Did it even exist - the love she had dreamed of her life? If it did, it was too late now for her to find it. Must she make do with this instead, then? Only this? Pleasure without love?

Pain is not insignificant. Neither is bewilderment or fear. Or conditions like poverty or homelessness. But somewhere—somewhere—there is peace. It is not even far off. It is somewhere deep inside us, in fact, ever present, just waiting for us to look inward to find it." She

But one never quite reached the point at which one could relax and know that one had made it through to the other side of suffering and could now be simply content, even happy, inside a balanced mix of body, mind, and spirit.

But she knew she would not sleep until she had somehow sorted through her thoughts about the night before. She pulled a chair to the window, blew out the candle, and sat looking out onto the moonlit lawns and trees.

am not strong enough yet to stand much noise or excitement

As to the photograph, your client may rest in peace. I love and am loved by a better man than he.

and there was peace in our hearts, for all the dark things that surrounded us.

And suddenly everything around me seemed to grow quiet, as if he were the wind that blew and I were just a cloud carried upon it.

Peace. It is a providence, and no great change; we are only what we always were, but naked now.

I personally think that what the big (writers) have in common is a fierce moral sensibility, which is unquenchable and they are all burning with the same anger at the way the world is. The little ones have made a peace with it, and the bigger ones can't make any peace.

A pigeon a day keeps the natives away.

Lonely sunlight

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness.

Life is never beautiful, but only the pictures of life are so in the transfiguring mirror of art or poetry; especially in youth, when we do not yet know it. Many a youth would receive great peace of mind if one could assist him to this knowledge.

I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

Whatever one may say, the happiest moment of the happy man is the moment ... falling asleep, and the unhappiest moment of the unhappy that of his awaking

Si llamáramos a las tumbas y preguntáramos a los muertos si les gustaría levantarse otra vez, nos dirían que no.

Pokój jest wiÄ™cej wart ni? prawda.

Do we need weapons to fight wars? Or do we need wars to create markets for weapons?

A quiet bubble floating on a sea of noise. (Estha)

It's odd how those who dismiss the peace movement as Utopian proffer the most absurdly dreamy reasons for war.