Peace Quotes And Sayings

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“War is over … If you want it.”
– John Lennon

“You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us. And the world will live as one.”
– John Lennon

“Never worry alone. When anxiety grabs my mind, it is self-perpetuating. Worrisome thoughts reproduce faster than rabbits, so one of the most powerful ways to stop the spiral of worry is simply to disclose my worry to a friend… The simple act of reassurance from another human being [becomes] a tool of the Spirit to cast out fear — because peace and fear are both contagious.”
– John Ortberg Jr.

“Peace, love, empathy”
– Kurt Cobain

“Peace is more than the absence of war. Peace is accord. Harmony.”
– Laini Taylor

“The world is quiet here.”
– Lemony Snicket

“Let us forgive each other – only then will we live in peace”
– Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

“If you love me as you say you do,’ she whispered, ‘make it so that I am at peace.”
– Leo Tolstoy

“Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“Peace is its own reward.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“Peace will not come out of a clash of arms but out of justice lived and done by unarmed nations in the face of odds.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“Peace and trust take years to build and seconds to shatter.”
– Mahogany SilverRain

“Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.”
– Malcolm X

“They will not let you have peace, they don’t want you to have anything they don’t have themselves.”
– Margaret Atwood

“Too bad people can’t always be playing music, maybe then there wouldn’t be any more wars.”
– Margot Benary-Isbert

“The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.”
– Marianne Williamson

“Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.”
– Mark Twain

“Peace if possible, truth at all costs.”
– Martin Luther

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.

“Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.

“One of the great tragedies of life is that men seldom bridge the gulf between practice and profession, between doing and saying. A persistent schizophrenia leaves so many of us tragically divided against ourselves. On the one hand, we proudly profess certain sublime and noble principles, but on the other hand, we sadly practise the very antithesis of these principles. How often are our lives characterised by a high blood pressure of creeds and an anaemia of deeds! We talk eloquently about our commitment to the principles of Christianity, and yet our lives are saturated with the practices of paganism. We proclaim our devotion to democracy, but we sadly practise the very opposite of the democratic creed. We talk passionately about peace, and at the same time we assiduously prepare for war. We make our fervent pleas for the high road of justice, and then we tread unflinchingly the low road of injustice. This strange dichotomy, this agonising gulf between the
– Martin Luther King Jr.

“Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars… Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.

“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.

“Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.”
– Marvin Gaye

“Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future. Jobs, family, employers, and friends can exist one day without any one of us, and if our egos permit us to confess, they could exist eternally in our absence. Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us.”
– Maya Angelou

“Dogs are our link to paradise. They don’t know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring–it was peace.”
– Milan Kundera

“You have peace,” the old woman said, “when you make it with yourself.”
– Mitch Albom

“An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.”
– Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

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