Quotes about Peace

When you can really be who you are and find out where you fit and function from a place of comfort, then you stop working. You stop wrestling.

Turn your heart toward what is good by cultivating forgiveness and compassion and mindful presence.

I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace- a connection to what matters.

Today, be proactive about forgiving those who have been the source of pain in your life.

But she is happiest alone. She is happiest alone.

In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor.

When a golden girl can win Prayer from out the lips of sin, When the barren almond bears, And a little child gives away its tears, Then shall all the house be still And peace come to Canterville.

Who can (make) the muddy water (clear)? Let it be still, and it will gradually become clear.

The wise are free from perplexities; the virtuous from anxiety; and the bold from fear.

My daddy always told me to just do the best you knew how and tell the truth. He said there was nothin to set a man's mind at ease like wakin up in the morning and not havin to decide who you were. And if you done somethin wrong just stand up and say you done it and say you're sorry and get on with it. Don't haul stuff around with you.

The next great war wont arrive until everyone who remembers the last one is dead. You think that nuclear war is inevitable. I agree with Plato that only the dead have seen an end to war. And people dont fight with rocks when they have guns. Etcetera and so on.

A man gets older, he said, he finds they's lots of things he can do jest as well without and so he don't have to worry about this and that the way a young feller will. I worked near all my life and never had nothin. Seems like a old man'd be allowed his rest but then he comes to find they's things you have to do on account of nobody else wants to attend to em... Most ever man loves peace, he said, and none better than a old man.