Quotes About Peace

It's possible to fight intolerance, stupidity and fanaticism when they come separately. When you get all three together it's probably wiser to get out, if only to preserve your sanity.

If you want to get peace, you can get it as soon as you like if we all pull together. ... Think peace, live peace, and breathe peace and you'll get it as soon as you like.

She fled up the stairs to her room. But her room did not provide sanctuary enough. She needed to be quite alone. She needed to be somewhere where she could recollect herself and find some peace.

I always seem to be so cozy with my own company that I rarely think of going out.

Wept for the death of an ardent and immature love that had been unable to bring any comfort or peace to the beloved. And wept for the woman he had taken to wife with such high ideals—the woman who had just killed herself rather than face a final illness with only his arms to comfort her. Wept for his own frailty and infidelity. For his own humanness. He

It's all over now, Henry, he murmured soothingly. You are safe, my love.

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But he suppressed the thought. It could bring no peace at all, but only shatter it.

looking down on them. There was no sky in the painting, only grass and flowers. Time crawled by when she was not painting, and sometimes even when she was. She could not see the Middlebury Park visitors leaving quickly enough. Perhaps her peace would be restored when they had gone away. When he had gone away.

He did not have to do anything here. He could just be. Perhaps that was the best and most enduring of lessons one could learn from life.

But sometimes she had found time to be alone, to seek peace, to seek the remnants of herself.

She tried not to think. She tried to allow the quietness and the dusk to soothe her and heal her.

Elizabeth slept for the rest of the night, somewhat comforted by her decision to do something.

She must not let him ruin the tranquility of her life again. She would not let him do so!

You cannot fail to enjoy yourself there and forget all your woes.

Go back to sleep. There will be no more dreams.

A great deal of good had happened. The past had been explained and forgiven. The bitterness of years had been purged. There could be some peace now for two people because he had come home.

It is a dreary world out there. It makes one thankful after all to be indoors with a fire burning in the hearth.

Peace is hard won, and the effort to keep it is ongoing. We must never become complacent in life. We must never feel we have arrived and there is nothing left to do but enjoy.

How did Uncle Ben put it last night? It has led us to peace and hope. And love.

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The decent, strong person had to do decent, strong things like love unlovable people and keep peace even when it wasn't easy.

True treasure is inside your heart - it's a soul that is at peace with God. So live your life for God. Not for your parents or yourself. Streets of gold are for the next life.

Shall I tell you why young men love war? . . . In peace, there are a hundred questions with a thousand answers! In war, there is only one question with one right answer. . . . Going to war makes you a man. It is emotionally exciting and morally restful.