Quotes About Peace

Jo estava fet per a una felicitat reposada.

Miro las manos que jecutaron los crímenes... pienso en el espíritu que los proyectó y ansío que llegue el momento en que esas manos cubran mis ojos, en que ese espíritu no piense más. [...] Así hallaré mi felicidad.

I wandered for ever about these lovely solitudes, gathering flower after flower . . . singing as I might the wild melodies of the country, or occupied by pleasant day dreams.

Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition, even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries.

How others behave toward you should not affect your behavior toward them. You must not answer arrogance with arrogance. You must not answer sarcasm with sarcasm. You must not answer contempt with contempt. No matter how others behave toward you, always respond with warm love and a caring heart.

Behave pridefully before no one, show anger to no one, scold no one, restrict no one, resent no one, badmouth no one, hate no one, sadden no one, criticize no one, hurt no one, discriminate against no one, betray no one, be jealous of no one, forgive everyone—this is how we should always hope to be.

Joy, happiness, are hopes and our dreams.... A place of peace and harmony... that's the kind of land I invision.

Sometimes I wish I was a cloud... Just floating along, going wherever the breeze takes me.

Those who do not understand true pain, can never understand true peace.

Peace under an illusion is not true peace. It's only meaningful if the real world manages to accomplish it.

Just by living, people hurt others without even realizing it. So long as humanity exists, hate will also exist. There is no peace in this cursed world. War is just a crime paid for by the pain of the defeated...

Peace is actually a troublesome beast. (...) It is hard to produce, but maintaining it is hard to impossible.

Parler de paix tout en répandant le sang, c'est quelque chose que seul l'être humain peut faire.

Il faut avoir connu la vraie souffrance pour desirer la paix

There are two ways to tell the story of the twentieth century. You can describe a series of wars, revolutions, crises, epidemics, financial calamities. Or you can point to the gentle but inexorable rise in the quality of life of almost everybody on the planet: the swelling of income, the conquest of disease, the disappearance of parasites, the retreat of want, the increasing persistence of peace, the lengthening of life, the advances in technology.

The generation that has experienced more peace, freedom, leisure time, education, medicine, travel, movies, mobile phones and massages than any generation in history is lapping up gloom at every opportunity.

Peace will come to earth when the people have more to do with each other and governments less,' he

Countries where commerce thrives have far less violence than countries where it is suppressed. Does

Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.

Peace is such a precious jewel that I would give anything for it but truth.

The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity.

Longfellow smiled. A great part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, my dear Lowell, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

There's an Oriental saying I like: "If aggression meets empty space it tends to defeat itself.

How silent lies the world Within fair twilight furled, Bringing such sweet relief! A quiet room resembling, Where, without fear or trembling, You sleep away day's grief.