Quotes About Peace

Those of us who give body and soul to projects that never seem to end- child rearing, housecleaning, gardening- know the value of the occasional closed door. We need our moments of declared truce.

Peace and Love, get high and fly with the dove.

Let's go take a walk down to the blue hole. You need to look at some water.

If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life.

I was struck with how full a silence could be: a Carolina wren sang from the eave of the shed; cedar waxwings carried on whispery bickerings up in the cherry; a mockingbird did an odd jerky dance, as if seized by the bird spirit, out on the driveway. The pea bowl rang like an insistent bell as we tossed in our peas.

loved the air after a hard rain, and the way a forest of dripping leaves fills itself with a sibilant percussion that empties your head of words.

They both went quiet, imagining a river of irises. Thatcher lay watching the sky through the leaves, white clouds skipping across small lenses of light. Here was a world, where he'd asked for nothing. He would escape with his life before the dust had settled on the collapse of his falling house.

It is possible to establish zero tolerance for murder as a solution to anything

felt the kindliness of the moss, which is all over everywhere once you get out of the made world. God's flooring. All the kinds, pillowy, pin-cushiony, shag carpet. Gray sticks of moss with red heads like matchsticks.

I believe I'm very happy.

How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!

You must learn to end the wars in your world by ending them in your minds.

against his cheek he knew she was all right.

and with great solemnity, 'I'm glad yer stopped 'em fighting. I'm scared

DA Langlais imparò che tra tutte le vite possibili, a una bisogna ancorarsi per poter contemplare, sereni, tutte le alte.

I shall clasp my hands together and bow to the corners of the world.

To Love Is To Be Happy With

But by restricting our options, we will be able to choose less and feel better.

it's impossible to be a maximizer about everything. The trick is to learn to embrace and appreciate satisficing, to cultivate it in more and more aspects of life, rather than merely being resigned to it. Becoming a conscious, intentional satisficer makes comparison with how other people are doing less important. It makes regret less likely. In the complex, choice-saturated world we live in, it makes peace of mind possible.

there's no sense worrying about what you can't control. Doing that is a good way to go crazy.

Of all the things which make up our Short-Time lives, sleep is surely the best.

No,' he said. 'I don't think anyone dies happy...but you could die well.

Lorsque tout va mal, laissez tomber et allez à la bibliothèque.

Shiny happy people don't hold guns in their laps that way.