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Quotes About Peaceful

Rain tapped and dripped at the skylight, casting watery shadows that streamed down the wall. Too shy to say anything, I waited for him to pick up the thread again- and when he didn't, we sat there peacefully, while I sipped my cooling tea (Lapsang Souchong, smoky and peculiar) and felt the strangeness of my life, and where I was.
~ Donna Tartt
A policy that can be accurately, though perhaps not prudently, defined as one of "peaceful coexistence."
~ J. William Fulbright
We are a plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures.
~ J.R.R. Tolkien
My ultimate aim is to make euthanasia a positive experience.
~ Jack Kevorkian
and gentle happy and peaceful, tasting the mean goodness of their living like the last of their suppers in their mouths.
~ James Agee
Joy comes and fills the self-emptied heart; it abides with the peaceful; its reign is with the pure.
~ James Allen
By peaceful revolutionary unity, without violence we can do it. The poor are being driven by hate and bitterness, they want to eliminate the rich who have been oppressing them. The rich are also prisoners of the system. They will have security, peace of mind and peace in the countryside if they help the poor uplift their lives.
~ Unknown
A graceful and blessed old age must have three elements in it: a happy retrospect, a peaceful present, and an inspiring future. And old age cannot have either one of these three if the youth has been wasted and manhood has been misspent.
~ Lyman Abbott
Through civil disobedience, India could free itself from tyranny while preserving a commitment to the peaceful ethics of all its major religions.
~ Unknown
When there is an undoing of your life, there is an unknowing of every next millisecond. Every next breath. The peaceful predictability of what you thought would be your life is suddenly replaced by a very unexpected darkness and silence you aren't used to.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
The ocean floor was sandy and soft as pillows. I settled into it and slept.
~ Madeline Miller
His face was like a quiet pool that would hold everything safe in its depth.
~ Madeline Miller
Why should he be peaceful? I never was, nor his father either, when I knew him. The difference was that he was not afraid to be burnt.
~ Madeline Miller
aging quite well, with the soft glow of one who knew little stress.
~ Unknown
The air is all softness.
~ John Keats
I rather be alone, be lonely, than being hurt, being in pain. I rather be happy, peaceful than sad & crying .
~ Unknown
sabía que el camino masónico tenía más sentido. Era la confianza clara, racional y sosegada en la creación humana de una sociedad pacífica, justa y fraternal, lo que dotaba a la masonería de su belleza y encanto humanista.
~ Unknown
Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
~ Malcolm X
NLM is a peaceful protest group made up of Noughts, Crosses and all right-minded citizens worldwide who despise bigotry and injustice. We
~ Malorie Blackman
There are three important components to getting a child to go to sleep at night. The child must be: 1. Tired 2. Quiet 3. Relaxed
~ Unknown
Who cannot recall, as I can, the reading they did in the holidays, which one would conceal successively in all those hours of the day peaceful and inviolable enough to be able to afford it refuge?
~ Marcel Proust
Down through the middle of the Valley flows the crystal Merced, River of Mercy, peacefully quiet, reflecting lilies and trees and the onlooking rocks; things frail and fleeting and types of endurance meeting here and blending in countless forms, as if into this one mountain mansion Nature had gathered her choicest treasures, to draw her lovers into close and confiding communion with her.
~ John Muir
I never saw a discontented tree.
~ John Muir
It was a morning like other mornings and yet perfect among mornings.
~ John Steinbeck