Peace Quotes And Sayings

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“Books are finite, sexual encounters are finite, but the desire to read and to fuck is infinite; it surpasses our own deaths, our fears, our hopes for peace.”
– Roberto Bolaño

“A people free to choose will always choose peace. ”
– Ronald Reagan

“Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.”
– Ronald Reagan

“Lead me from death to life, from falsehood to truth; Lead me from despair to hope, from fear to trust; Lead me from hate to love, from war to peace; Let peace fill our heart, our world, our universe”
– Satish Kumar

“If you have men who will exclude any of God‘s creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.”
– St. Francis of Assisi

“We’re all pieces of the same ever-changing puzzle;
– Stanley Victor Paskavich

“Up until then I’d thought that white people and colored people getting along was the big aim, but after that I decided everybody being colorless together was a better plan. I thought of that policeman, Eddie Hazelwurst, saying I’d lowered myself to be in this house of colored women, and for the very life of me I couldn’t understand how it had turned out this way, how colored women had become the lowest ones on the totem pole. You only had to look at them to see how special they were, like hidden royalty among us. Eddie Hazelwurst. What a shitbucket.”
– Sue Monk Kidd

“If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another.”
– Tenzin Gyatso, The 14th Dalai Lama

“By eating meat we share the responsibility of climate change, the destruction of our forests, and the poisoning of our air and water. The simple act of becoming a vegetarian will make a difference in the health of our planet.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh

“It is my conviction that there is no way to peace – peace is the way.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh

“Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything – anger, anxiety, or possessions – we cannot be free.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh

“Many people think excitement is happiness…. But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh

“Peace is present right here and now, in ourselves and in everything we do and see. Every breath we take, every step we take, can be filled with peace, joy, and serenity. The question is whether or not we are in touch with it. We need only to be awake, alive in the present moment.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh

“The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace. With each step, the wind blows. With each step, a flower blooms.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh

“The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it. (21)”
– Thich Nhat Hanh

“We often think of peace as the absence of war, that if powerful countries would reduce their weapon arsenals, we could have peace. But if we look deeply into the weapons, we see our own minds- our own prejudices, fears and ignorance. Even if we transport all the bombs to the moon, the roots of war and the roots of bombs are still there, in our hearts and minds, and sooner or later we will make new bombs. To work for peace is to uproot war from ourselves and from the hearts of men and women. To prepare for war, to give millions of men and women the opportunity to practice killing day and night in their hearts, is to plant millions of seeds of violence, anger, frustration, and fear that will be passed on for generations to come. ”
– Thich Nhat Hanh

“In omnibus requiem quaesivi, et nusquam inveni nisi in angulo cum libro.
– Thomas à Kempis

“The more humble and obedient to God a man is, the more wise and at peace he will be in all that he does.”
– Thomas à Kempis

“Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations…entangling alliances with none”
– Thomas Jefferson

“Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace”
– Thomas Jefferson

“First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.”
– Thomas Kempis

“War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.”
– Thomas Mann

“Instead of hating the people you think are war-makers, hate the appetites and disorder in your own soul, which are the causes of war. If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed – but hate these things in yourself, not in another.”
– Thomas Merton

“Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.”
– Thomas Merton

“We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God”
– Thomas Merton

“It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful, like the flowers, than large, conservative, repressed, fearful, and aggressive, like the thunder lizards; a lesson, by the way, that the Earth has yet to learn.”
– Tom Robbins

“Keep your best wishes, close to your heart and watch what happens”
– Tony DeLiso

“The law of evolution is that the strongest survives!’ ‘Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of any social species, are those who are most social. In human terms, most ethical…There is no strength to be gained from hurting one another. Only weakness.”
– Ursula K. Le Guin

“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
– Virginia Woolf

“To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is…at last, to love it for what it is, and then to put it away.”
– Virginia Woolf

“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
– Virginia Woolf

“Peace is always beautiful.”
– Walt Whitman

“Make peace with silence, and remind yourself that it is in this space that you’ll come to remember your spirit. When you’re able to transcend an aversion to silence, you’ll also transcend many other miseries. And it is in this silence that the remembrance of God will be activated.”
– Wayne W. Dyer

“You have everything you need for complete peace and total happiness right now.”
– Wayne W. Dyer

“You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.”
– William Wilberforce

“Civilization will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite together to defend them and show themselves possessed of a constabulary power before which barbaric and atavistic forces will”
– Winston Churchill

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