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☮️ Peace
“When I marched in Selma my legs were praying for peace.”
Heschel transforms physical activism into a form of prayer for peace.
“Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.”
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
“When I was young I admired clever people. Now that I am old I admire kind people within my family.”
“Just to be is a blessing just to live is holy”
“Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart toward deeper truth”
“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.”
— Gautama Buddha
“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
— Virginia Woolf
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
“The peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief.”
— Wendell Berry
“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
— Gibran
“Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.”
— Christian Nestell Bovee
“Unquiet meals make ill digestions; therefore the happiness of a man's life is to be measured not by the great feasts, but by the frequency of his simple, pleasant repasts.”
— William Shakespeare
“A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.”
— Cicero
