Quotes About Peace

You don't get peace by being right. You just get to be right, while your partner gets to be wrong—defeated and wrong. Do that ten thousand times and your marriage will be over (or you will wish it was).

to seek peace—you have to decide that you want the answer, more than you want to be right.

Violence, after all, is no mystery. It's peace that's the mystery.

It is for such reasons that we need to understand the role of art, and stop thinking about it as an option, or a luxury, or worse, an affectation. Art is the bedrock of culture itself. It is the foundation of the process by which we unite ourselves psychologically, and come to establish productive peace with others.

Violence, after all, is no mystery. It's peace that's the mystery. Violence is the default.

All she—he—they—or we—must do to ensure such an outcome is nothing: don't notice, don't react, don't attend, don't discuss, don't consider, don't work for peace, don't take responsibility. Don't confront the chaos and turn it into

Un objetivo reduce la ansiedad porque, si no tienes ninguno, todo puede significar cualquier cosa o nada en absoluto y ninguna de estas dos opciones permite a un espíritu estar tranquilo. Así

Imagine a toddler repeatedly striking his mother in the face. Why would he do such a thing? It's a stupid question. It's unacceptably naive. The answer is obvious. To dominate his mother. To see if he can get away with it. Violence, after all, is no mystery. It's peace that's the mystery. Violence is the default. It's easy. It's peace that is difficult: learned, inculcated, earned.

No consigues la paz llevando la razón. Lo único que consigues es llevar la razón, mientras que a la otra persona le toca estar equivocada, es decir, derrotada y equivocada

Have some humility. If you cannot bring peace to your household, how dare you try to rule a city?

not with intent to destroy, or attain victory, because that's not the truth: that's just all-out war).

conflict in the present, in the service of longer-term truth and peace?

Siempre habrá una paz, pero no tengo más que una vida.

Cuántos silencios existían? ¿El de un bosque, el del mar en un día plácido, el de un bebé dormido? ¿El de la desesperación final?

Pero aquí todos se me emborrachan igual. Si en lugar de matarnos unos a otros hubiéramos ido a beber, otro gallo nos habría cantado.

Curiosamente defendía a su madre. No podía culparla. Se había visto empujada a hacer cuanto hizo. Quererla representaba una deuda, un pago, su propio compromiso. Y la posibilidad de facilitarle la paz interior.

Deita ao lado dela, segura sua mão ardente. Esposa. A paz da noite envolve os esposos. O amor é sempre doce e bom, mesmo quando a morte está próxima. Os corpos não se balançam mais no ritmo do amor. Mas nos corações dos dois meninos não há mais nenhum medo. Somente paz, a paz da noite da Bahia.

La paz duerme a la sombra de las espadas

Por supuesto que la paz es el respeto al derecho ajeno, en eso todos estamos de acuerdo. En lo que nadie está de acuerdo es en cuál es el derecho ajeno.

I don't speak of revenge or forgiveness; forgetting is the only revenge and the only forgiveness.

I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.

El rencor es una enfermedad que mata.»

El deseo de vivir y convivir sin miedo, sin miseria, sin violencia es uno de los grandes impulsos que mueven la historia y que los poderosos han tenido que respetar, al menos nominalmente.

Las cosas que terminan dan paz y las cosas que no cambian comienzan a concluirse, están siempre concluyéndose. Lo terrible es la esperanza.