Quotes About Peace

Happiness is a state of inner fulfillment, not the gratification of inexhaustible desires for outward things.

According to the philosopher Andre Comte-Sponville: The wise man has nothing left to expect or to hope for. Because he is entirely happy, he needs nothing. Because he needs nothing, he is entirely happy.

As long as a sense of self-importance rules your being, you will never know lasting peace.

May every moment of my life and of the lives of others be one of wisdom, flourishing, and inner peace!

Sunset is still my favorite color and rainbow is next

I can sleep like a champion. I once slept through a smoke alarm going off. For three hours. In my bedroom.

Tell her about the screaming, Janelle said. Because I can't. The screaming? Stevie repeated. The other morning he started something called 'screaming meditation', Nate said. Guess what happens in screaming meditation? Did you guess screaming? For fifteen minutes? Because that's what happens in screaming meditation. Fifteen. Minutes. Outside. At five in the morning. Do you know what happens when someone screams outside at a remote location in the mountains, especially after a...

Hayes had a smile like a hammock—just get in, go to sleep, forget your troubles and cares.

With a drowning kind of quiet

That's why I can sleep anywhere now.

Sometimes, it's better not to know.

And now I see the face of god, and I raise this god over the earth, this god whom men have sought since men came into being, this god who will grant them joy and peace and pride. This god, this one word: I.

The air is pure under the ground. There is no odor of men.

Let those who are actually concerned with peace observe that capitalism gave mankind the longest period of peace in history—a period during which there were no wars involving the entire civilized world—from the end of the Napoleonic wars in 1815 to the outbreak of World War I in 1914.

Only when you can feel contempt for your own priceless little ego, only then can you achieve the true, broad peace of selflessness, the merging of your spirit with the vast collective spirit of mankind. There is no room for the love of others within the tight, crowded miser's hole of a private ego.

Do people sleep a lot because they're tired or because they want to escape from something?

She lay on her back, looking up at the sky, feeling no desire to move or think or know that there was any time beyond this moment.

When numbers are substituted for morality, and no individual can claim a right, but any gang can assert any desire whatever, when compromise is the only policy expected of those in power, and the preservation of the moment's "stability," of peace at any price, is their only goal—the winner, necessarily, is whoever presents the most unjust and irrational demands; the system serves as an open invitation to do so.

One of the ugliest characteristics of today's world is the mixture of frantic war preparations with hysterical peace propaganda, and the fact that both come from the same source—from the same political philosophy. If mankind is ever to achieve peace, the first step will be made when people realize that today's peace movements are not advocates of peace.

El estatismo necesita la guerra; un país libre no. El estatismo sobrevive a través del saqueo; un país libre sobrevive produciendo.

It was a satisfying bravery; it never aroused antagonism.

Yoga allows you to find a new kind of freedom that you may not have known even existed.

Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life, where you do not feel like you are constantly trying to fit broken pieces together.

You do not need to seek freedom in a different land, for it exists with your own body, heart, mind, and soul.