Peace Quotes

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It's time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.

- Jesse Jackson

A political victory, a rise in rents, the recovery of your sick, or return of your absent friend, or some other quite external event, raises your spirits, and you think good days are preparing for you. Do not believe it. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.

from "Self-Reliance"

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Gratitude is one of the sweet shortcuts to finding peace of mind and happiness inside. No matter what is going on outside of us, there's always something we could be grateful for.

- Barry Neil Kaufman

The earth is too small a star and we too brief a visitor upon it for anything to matter more than the struggle for peace.

- Colman McCarthy

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Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

Meditation is applying mindfulness without feelings of being hurried or under pressure.

- Christopher Titmuss

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.

- John Lennon

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While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.

- Francis of Assisi

For peace of mind, resign as general manager of the Universe.

- Larry Eisenberg

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When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.

- African proverb

Peace in ourselves, peace in the world.

- Thich Nhat Hanh

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Working for peace in the future is to work for peace in the present moment.

- Thich Nhat Hanh

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

- Virginia Woolf

[Peace] is the highest and most strenuous act of the soul, but an entirely harmonious act, in which all our powers and affections are blending in a beautiful proportion, and sustain and perfect one another. It is more than the silence after storms. It is as the concord of all melodious sounds ... an alliance of love with all beings, a sympathy with all that is pure and happy, a surrender of every separate will and interest, a participation of the spirit and life of the universe.... This is peace, and the true happiness of [humanity]

- William Ellery Channing

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

- Amelia Earhart

I have come into this world to see this:
the sword drop from men's hands
even at the height of
their arc of
rage
because we have finally realized
there is just one flesh
we can wound.

- Hafiz of Persia

Compassion is more important than intellect in calling forth the love that the work of peace needs, and intuition can often be a far more powerful searchlight than cold reason.

- Betty Williams

All will be well, all will be well, and all manner of things will be well.

- Julian of Norwich

There is something strangely inconsistent about a nation and a press that would praise you when you say, "Be nonviolent toward Jim Clark," but will curse and damn you when you say, "Be nonviolent toward little brown Vietnamese children." There is something wrong with that press.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

And in despair I bowed my head;
'There is no peace on earth,' I said;
'For hate is strong,
And mocks the song
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!'

(from "Christmas Bells" poem)

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

- Melody Beattie

Those who have experienced the most, have suffered so much that they have ceased to hate. Hate is more for those with a slightly guilty conscience, and who by chewing on old hate in times of peace wish to demonstrate how great they were during the war.

- Thor Heyerdahl

A civilized nation can have no enemies, and one cannot draw a line across a map, a line that doesn't even exist in nature and say that the ugly enemy lives on the one side, and good friends live on the other.

- Thor Heyerdahl