☮️ Peace

“When you arise in the morning think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive to breathe to think to enjoy to love. This is the foundation of peace.”

— Marcus Aurelius

#peace #morning #privilege

“Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.”

— Gautama Buddha

#peace #words #wisdom

“One good thing about music when it hits you you feel no pain. Music brings peace.”

— Bob Marley

#peace #music #painless

“There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.”

— A.J. Muste

#peace #path #method

“Of all forms of caution caution in love and peace is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”

— Bertrand Russell

#peace #caution #love

“Peace is not merely the absence of conflict. True peace is the presence of harmony justice and goodwill.”

— Baruch Spinoza

#peace #harmony #justice

“I do not want the peace which passeth understanding. I want the understanding which bringeth peace.”

— Helen Keller

#peace #understanding #desire

“Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.”

— Thomas Jefferson

#peace #friendship #policy

“The wound is the place where the light enters you and where peace begins to heal.”

— Rumi

#peace #wounds #light

“Within you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be at peace.”

— Herman Hesse

#peace #sanctuary #retreat

“Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom and peace are never really won. You earn them and win them in every generation.”

— Coretta Scott King

#peace #struggle #generation

“We may have different religions different languages different colored skin but we all belong to one human race seeking peace.”

— Kofi Annan

#peace #unity #diversity

“Every great dream of peace begins with a dreamer who refuses to accept the world as it is.”

— Harriet Tubman

#peace #dreams #refusal

“Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.”

— Unknown

#peace #hate #darkness

“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”

— Kahlil Gibran

#peace #silence #thoughts

“The only thing that is constant is change. Finding peace within change is wisdom.”

— Heraclitus

#peace #change #constancy

“The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. Peace embraces both.”

— Niels Bohr

#peace #truth #paradox

“One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated in peace.”

— Thomas More

#peace #education #schooling

“There is only one way to happiness and peace and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond our power.”

— Epictetus

#peace #acceptance #worry

“You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside toward peace.”

— Wayne Dyer

#peace #control #inner

“In the teachings of my ancestors gratitude is not a passive state but an active practice that leads to peace.”

— Robin Wall Kimmerer

#peace #gratitude #active

“Simplicity patience compassion. These three are your greatest treasures leading to peace.”

— Laozi

#peace #simplicity #compassion

“I am a slow walker but I never walk back from the path of peace.”

— Abraham Lincoln

#peace #persistence #forward

“We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.”

— William Ewart Gladstone

#peace #love #power

“The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave his fetters fall. Freedom and peace rise from this resolution.”

— Mohandas Gandhi

#peace #freedom #resolution

“Yesterday is but todays memory and tomorrow is todays dream. Live in peace today.”

— Khalil Gibran

#peace #present #memory

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that. Hatred cannot drive out hatred only love and peace can do that.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

#peace #light #love

“If every eight year old in the world is taught meditation we will eliminate violence from the world within one generation.”

— Dalai Lama

#peace #meditation #children

“Lord make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred let me sow love.”

— Francis of Assisi

#peace #instrument #love

“The best is the enemy of the good. Accept the good and find peace.”

— Voltaire

#peace #acceptance #good

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

— Francis of Assisi

#peace #sincerity #heart

“He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. Peace requires understanding all sides.”

— John Stuart Mill

#peace #understanding #sides

“We do not see things as they are we see them as we are. Seeing with peaceful eyes changes everything.”

— Anais Nin

#peace #perception #self

“Do not seek peace in still pools. In dynamic life alone is peace to be found.”

— Dag Hammarskjold

#peace #dynamic #life

“Peace is not the absence of affliction, but the presence of God.”

— Unknown

#peace #faith #spiritual

“When we plant trees we plant the seeds of peace and seeds of hope.”

— Wangari Maathai

#peace #trees #planting

“There was never a good war or a bad peace.”

— Benjamin Franklin

#peace #war #judgment

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world. Be the peace you wish to see.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

#peace #being #change

“Nothing in all creation is so like God as peace and stillness.”

— Meister Eckhart

#peace #stillness #divine

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world toward peace.”

— Nelson Mandela

#peace #education #weapon

“Our lives are frittered away by detail. Simplify simplify and find peace.”

— Henry David Thoreau

#peace #simplicity #detail

“Fortune favors the bold. Peace favors the wise.”

— Virgil

#peace #wisdom #fortune

“Whatever advice you give be short. Brief words find peace more easily than long speeches.”

— Horace

#peace #brevity #advice

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of peace.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#peace #anger #time

“Peace begins with a smile.”

— Unknown

#peace #kindness #simplicity

“Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.”

— Francis of Assisi

#peace #love #prayer

“Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.”

— Dalai Lama

#peace #inner #protection

“Taking a new step uttering a new word is what people fear most. But true peace requires both.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

#peace #courage #new steps

“I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice and peace.”

— Albert Camus

#peace #country #justice

“The peace of wild things comes to me when I lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water.”

— Wendell Berry

#peace #nature #rest

“The secret to happiness and peace is freedom and the secret to freedom is courage.”

— Thucydides

#peace #freedom #courage

“There is no way to peace; peace is the way.”

— A.J. Muste

#peace #path #philosophy

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I will meet you there.”

— Rumi

#peace #beyond judgment #meeting

“Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek but a means by which we arrive at that goal.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

#peace #means #goal

“We make war that we may live in peace.”

— Aristotle

#peace #war #purpose

“Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say Im a dreamer but Im not the only one.”

— John Lennon

#peace #imagination #dreams

“Yesterday I was clever so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise so I am changing myself toward peace.”

— Rumi

#peace #wisdom #self-change

“You will never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart.”

— George Michael

#peace #heart #intuition

“It isnt enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isnt enough to believe in it. One must work at it.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#peace #belief #work

“My religion is very simple. My religion is peace and kindness.”

— Tenzin Gyatso

#peace #kindness #religion

“There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler. Every step toward peace matters.”

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#peace #journey #meaning

“Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation.”

— Unknown

#peace #evolution #humanity

“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#peace #self-reliance #inner strength

“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. It leads eventually to deeper peace.”

— Kahlil Gibran

#peace #pain #understanding

“Peace is a natural effect of trade. Two nations who traffic with each other become reciprocally dependent for peace.”

— Montesquieu

#peace #trade #dependence

“Tell me what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life in pursuit of peace.”

— Mary Oliver

#peace #life #purpose

“Wise men speak because they have something to say about peace. Fools speak because they have to say something.”

— Plato

#peace #wisdom #speech

“We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each others children. Education is the answer.”

— Jimmy Carter

#peace #children #education

“There is no path to peace. Peace is the path.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

#peace #path #journey

“Peace is not just the absence of war. Like a cathedral peace must be constructed patiently and with unshakable faith.”

— Pope Francis

#peace #construction #patience

“A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together of peace is reality.”

— Yoko Ono

#peace #dreams #together

“Example is not the main thing in influencing others toward peace. It is the only thing.”

— Albert Schweitzer

#peace #example #influence

“The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living. Peace honors all who came before.”

— Cicero

#peace #memory #honoring

“Action is the antidote to despair. And action for peace is the highest calling.”

— Joan Baez

#peace #action #despair

“And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. Peace knows not its value until lost.”

— Kahlil Gibran

#peace #value #separation

“No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do for peace.”

— Dorothy Day

#peace #hope #work

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination embraces the entire world stimulating progress toward peace.”

— Albert Einstein

#peace #imagination #progress

“Seek the company of those who search for truth and run from those who have found it. Peace lies in the searching.”

— Vaclav Havel

#peace #truth #searching

“The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another toward peace.”

— William James

#peace #choice #stress

“Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak. Non-violence is the most powerful force for peace.”

— Cesar Chavez

#peace #non-violence #strength

“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our freedom and power to choose our response toward peace.”

— Viktor Frankl

#peace #choice #space

“An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

#peace #forgiveness #nonviolence

“If you are neutral in situations of injustice you have chosen the side of the oppressor and there can be no peace.”

— Desmond Tutu

#peace #justice #neutrality

“When one door of happiness closes another opens but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us toward peace.”

— Helen Keller

#peace #doors #opportunity

“Where justice is denied where poverty is enforced where ignorance prevails and where any one class feels that society has conspired there neither persons nor property will be safe nor will there be peace.”

— Frederick Douglass

#peace #justice #safety

“If there is righteousness in the heart, there will be beauty in the character. If there is beauty in the character, there will be harmony in the home. If there is harmony in the home, there will be order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there will be peace in the world.”

— Confucius

#peace #righteousness #harmony

“To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.”

— George Washington

#peace #strength #preparation

“The first peace which is the most important is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship with the universe.”

— Black Elk

#peace #soul #universe

“World peace can be achieved when the power of love replaces the love of power.”

— Sri Chinmoy

#peace #love #power

“Instructions for living a life of peace: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.”

— Mary Oliver

#peace #attention #astonishment

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist that is all. Truly living means finding peace.”

— Oscar Wilde

#peace #living #rarity

“You have peace when you make it with yourself.”

— Mitch Albom

#peace #self-acceptance

“Not he who has much is rich but he who gives much and finds peace in giving.”

— Erich Fromm

#peace #giving #richness

“A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.”

— Aesop

#peace #simplicity #contentment

“Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.”

— Elie Wiesel

#peace #responsibility #humanity

“The roots of education are bitter but the fruit is sweet and leads to peace.”

— Aristotle

#peace #education #roots

“All of humanitys problems stem from a persons inability to sit quietly in a room at peace.”

— Blaise Pascal

#peace #stillness #problems

“Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone. Peace comes from non-interference.”

— Alan Watts

#peace #non-interference #clarity

“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. They bring peace to all things.”

— Leo Tolstoy

#peace #patience #time

“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. True peace requires transformation.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

#peace #society #transformation

“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent. Music is peace made audible.”

— Victor Hugo

#peace #music #expression

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop walking toward peace.”

— Confucius

#peace #persistence #slowness

“One ought every day at least to hear a little song read a good poem see a fine picture and if it were possible to speak a few reasonable words toward peace.”

— Goethe

#peace #daily practice #beauty

“Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless in facing them. Let me find peace in courage.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

#peace #courage #facing

“Peace is always beautiful.”

— Walt Whitman

#peace #beauty #simplicity

“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”

— Unknown

#peace #unity #belonging

“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Peace and change are always possible.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#peace #change #power

“Let my thoughts come to you when I am gone like the afterglow of sunset at the hush of evening bringing peace.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

#peace #sunset #afterglow

“Everyone thinks of changing the world for peace but no one thinks of changing himself.”

— Leo Tolstoy

#peace #self-change #world

“Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love and who find peace in doing so.”

— Ovid

#peace #courage #defense

“Hatred does not cease by hatred but only by love. This is the eternal rule leading to peace.”

— Gautama Buddha

#peace #love #hatred

“Poverty is the worst form of violence against peace.”

— Mohandas Gandhi

#peace #poverty #violence

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. Within us lies peace.”

— Thoreau

#peace #inner #matters

“If there must be trouble let it be in my day that my child may have peace.”

— Thomas Paine

#peace #sacrifice #children

“Peace is not the product of terror or fear. Peace is not the silence of cemeteries. Peace is the generous tranquil contribution of all to the good of all.”

— Oscar Romero

#peace #contribution #generosity

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. Both paths lead to peace.”

— Edith Wharton

#peace #light #reflection

“Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.”

— Buddha

#peace #inner #seeking

“To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wild flower. To hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour is true peace.”

— William Blake

#peace #infinity #perception

“Peace is not the absence of conflict but the ability to cope with it.”

— Dorothy Thompson

#peace #conflict #coping

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

— Thomas à Kempis

#peace #self-care #inner peace

“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts toward peace.”

— Marcus Aurelius

#peace #thoughts #happiness

“If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know someone dont bother analyzing their behavior. Ask them about peace and watch their eyes.”

— Dostoevsky

#peace #soul #eyes

“Change your life today. Dont gamble on the future act now without delay toward peace.”

— Simone de Beauvoir

#peace #action #now

“In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.”

— Herodotus

#peace #war #loss

“Wealth consists not in having great possessions but in having few wants and finding peace in that sufficiency.”

— Epictetus

#peace #sufficiency #wants

“Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears. Peace replaces pain.”

— Marcus Aurelius

#peace #injury #rejection

“War does not determine who is right only who is left. Peace determines who is wise.”

— Bertrand Russell

#peace #war #wisdom

“If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.”

— Desmond Tutu

#peace #courage #reconciliation

“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

#peace #self #others

“Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.”

— Gautama Buddha

#peace #inner peace #mindfulness

“All the great traditions are telling us that peace lies at the heart of the human experience.”

— Karen Armstrong

#peace #traditions #heart

“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil. God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak against peace.”

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#peace #silence #evil

“Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things man will not himself find peace.”

— Albert Schweitzer

#peace #compassion #all life

“Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.”

— Gautama Buddha

#peace #envy #contentment

“Truth is powerful and it prevails. Where truth prevails peace follows.”

— Sojourner Truth

#peace #truth #prevailing

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. But beyond them lies peace.”

— Dostoevsky

#peace #suffering #depth

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority it is time to pause and reflect. True peace often walks a different path.”

— Mark Twain

#peace #reflection #majority

“I have always believed and I still believe that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value toward peace.”

— Hermann Hesse

#peace #meaning #transformation

“In the midst of winter I found there was within me an invincible summer of peace.”

— Albert Camus

#peace #inner #invincible

“Do your little bit of good where you are. It is those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world with peace.”

— Desmond Tutu

#peace #little bits #overwhelming

“The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment as well as his path to peace.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

#peace #conscience #suffering

“I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being that leads to peace.”

— Hafiz

#peace #inner light #loneliness

“If peace means accepting second class citizenship then I dont want peace.”

— Kofi Annan

#peace #dignity #equality

“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#peace #self-reliance #principles

“We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us. Peace comes from reading it rightly.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

#peace #perception #truth

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately to front only the essential facts of life and find peace.”

— Thoreau

#peace #deliberate #woods

“Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.”

— Dalai Lama V

#peace #knowledge #understanding

“Peace is not the absence of war but a virtue a state of mind a disposition for benevolence confidence and justice.”

— Spinoza

#peace #virtue #disposition

“World peace must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just mere absence of violence.”

— Dalai Lama

#peace #inner #development

“Peace and contentment are two of natures greatest blessings that come from within.”

— Marcus Garvey

#peace #contentment #inner

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

— Thomas a Kempis

#peace #self #others

“Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions toward peace.”

— Hafiz

#peace #fear #living

“I will fight no more forever. From where the sun now stands peace is what I seek.”

— Chief Joseph

#peace #surrender #seeking

“Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness. This light leads to peace.”

— Desmond Tutu

#peace #hope #light

“Walk cheerfully over the world answering that of God in every one you meet. This is the way of peace.”

— George Fox

#peace #cheerfulness #divine

“An unexamined life is not worth living. An examined life leads to peace.”

— Socrates

#peace #examination #worth

“Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.”

— Siddhartha Gautama

#peace #words #simplicity

“A man who suffers before it is necessary suffers more than is necessary and never finds peace.”

— Seneca

#peace #suffering #anticipation

“All shall be well and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well in peace.”

— Julian of Norwich

#peace #assurance #wellbeing

“The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war.”

— Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

#peace #preparation #prevention

“Five great enemies to peace inhabit with us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride.”

— Petrarch

#peace #enemies #self-awareness

“Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.”

— Unknown

#peace #love #conflict resolution

“Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your own experience or convictions.”

— Dag Hammarskjold

#peace #authenticity #conviction

“True silence is the rest of the mind and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body. It brings nourishment and peace.”

— William Penn

#peace #silence #rest

“Happiness depends upon ourselves and so does our peace of mind.”

— Aristotle

#peace #happiness #self-dependence

“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am then I can change and find peace.”

— Carl Rogers

#peace #self-acceptance #paradox

“Peace is the evening star of the soul, as virtue is its sun, and the two are never far apart.”

— Charles Caleb Colton

#peace #virtue #soul

“It is never too late to be what you might have been on the path of peace.”

— George Eliot

#peace #potential #timing

“Letting go gives us freedom and freedom is the only condition for happiness and peace.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

#peace #letting go #freedom

“Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others toward peace.”

— Plato

#peace #good actions #inspiration

“You drown not by falling into a river but by staying submerged in it. Rise toward peace.”

— Paulo Coelho

#peace #rising #drowning

“Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do for peace.”

— Voltaire

#peace #guilt #inaction

“When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.”

— Jimi Hendrix

#peace #love #power

“There is that great proverb that until the lions have their own historians the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter. Peace requires all voices.”

— Chinua Achebe

#peace #voices #history

“Happy is he who has been able to learn the causes of things and finds peace in understanding.”

— Virgil

#peace #understanding #causes

“True peace is achieved not by living without difficulty but by living beyond difficulty.”

— Seneca

#peace #transcendence #difficulty

“The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#peace #victory

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms to choose ones attitude in any given set of circumstances toward peace.”

— Viktor Frankl

#peace #attitude #freedom

“Every breath we take every step we make can be filled with peace joy and serenity.”

— Nhat Hanh

#peace #breath #step

“To be beautiful means to be yourself. You dont need to be accepted by others. You need only accept yourself and find peace.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

#peace #self-acceptance #beauty

“I am large I contain multitudes. Among those multitudes is a deep reservoir of peace.”

— Walt Whitman

#peace #multitudes #reservoir

“If you want to make peace with your enemy you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.”

— Nelson Mandela

#peace #enemy #partnership

“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”

— William Ewart Gladstone

#peace #love #power

“Someday after mastering the winds the waves the tides and gravity we shall harness the energies of love for peace.”

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

#peace #love #mastery

“Peace in oneself peace in the world.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

#peace #self #world

“For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love and peace.”

— Carl Sagan

#peace #vastness #love

“A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in. True peace needs no crown.”

— Frederick the Great

#peace #humility #simplicity

“Every gun that is made every warship launched every rocket fired signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed those who are cold and are not clothed.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#peace #military #resources

“If we have no peace it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”

— Mother Teresa

#peace #belonging #connection

“A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a nation and further will enable a change of the destiny of humankind toward peace.”

— Daisaku Ikeda

#peace #revolution #individual

“The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life, knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.”

— Aristotle

#peace #wisdom #courage

“One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives when seeking peace.”

— Euripides

#peace #friendship #loyalty

“If there is to be peace in the world, there must be peace in the nations. If there is to be peace in the nations, there must be peace in the cities. If there is to be peace in the cities, there must be peace between neighbors. If there is to be peace between neighbors, there must be peace in the home. If there is to be peace in the home, there must be peace in the heart.”

— Lao Tzu

#peace #heart #home

“There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness or peace in any place except what you bring to it yourself.”

— Henry David Thoreau

#peace #choice #value

“Let everything happen to you beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling of peace is final.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#peace #acceptance #continuity

“When you rise in the morning give thanks for the light for your life for your strength. Give thanks for the peace in your heart.”

— Tecumseh

#peace #gratitude #morning

“True peace is not merely the absence of tension it is the presence of justice.”

— Jane Addams

#peace #justice #tension

“I am too intelligent too demanding and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. The same goes for my peace.”

— Simone de Beauvoir

#peace #independence #intelligence

“There is a crack in everything. That is how the light and peace get in.”

— Leonard Cohen

#peace #cracks #light

“There is no peace without patience for peace unfolds in its own time.”

— Sophocles

#peace #patience #timing

“If there is righteousness in the heart there will be beauty in the character. If there is beauty in the character there will be harmony in the home. If there is harmony in the home there will be order in the nation. If there is order in the nation there will be peace in the world.”

— Confucius

#peace #righteousness #chain

“Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people. Peaceful minds discuss solutions.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#peace #discussion #solutions

“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience of peace.”

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

#peace #spiritual #human

“If people dont like the situation they are in they can change it. They are not trees. Peace is always possible.”

— Mikhail Gorbachev

#peace #change #possibility

“Let nothing disturb you let nothing frighten you. All things pass away. God never changes. Patience obtains all things including peace.”

— Teresa of Avila

#peace #patience #divine

“Go placidly amid the noise and haste and remember what peace there may be in silence.”

— Desiderata

#peace #silence #placidity

“I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail because he has a soul a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and peace.”

— William Faulkner

#peace #prevailing #soul

“The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#peace #calm #pursuit

“By believing passionately in something that still does not exist we create it. We create peace this way.”

— Franz Kafka

#peace #belief #creation

“What you do makes a difference and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make for peace.”

— Jane Goodall

#peace #difference #decision

“Only the dead have seen the end of war. The living must choose peace each day.”

— Plato

#peace #choice #daily

“Peace cannot be kept by force it can only be achieved by understanding.”

— Albert Einstein

#peace #understanding #force

“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. The competent find peace.”

— Isaac Asimov

#peace #competence #violence

“The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe.”

— Black Elk

#peace #oneness #spirituality

“True peace is not merely the absence of tension but the presence of justice and righteousness.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

#peace #justice #righteousness

“Breathing in I calm body and mind. Breathing out I smile. Dwelling in the present moment I know this is the only moment of peace.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

#peace #breathing #present

“Nobody can bring you peace but yourself. Nobody can make you happy but yourself.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#peace #happiness #self-reliance

“The highest reward for a persons toil is not what they get for it but what they become by it. They become peaceful.”

— John Ruskin

#peace #reward #becoming

“In a conflict between the heart and the brain follow your heart toward peace.”

— Swami Vivekananda

#peace #heart #conflict

“I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.”

— Dwight Eisenhower

#peace #people #government

“The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it. Change your thoughts and find peace.”

— Eckhart Tolle

#peace #thoughts #situation

“He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened and at peace.”

— Lao Tzu

#peace #self-knowledge #enlightenment

“If you are willing to look at another persons behavior toward you as a reflection of their relationship with themselves you will find peace.”

— Yogi Bhajan

#peace #reflection #behavior

“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves and wiser people so full of doubts. Peace requires humility.”

— Bertrand Russell

#peace #humility #wisdom

“Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom. It is also the key to peace.”

— Hannah Arendt

#peace #forgiveness #freedom

“You pray in your distress and in your need. Would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of peace and abundance.”

— Khalil Gibran

#peace #prayer #abundance

“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. The answers will come bringing peace.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#peace #patience #questions

“I have discovered that all human evil comes from this: a persons being unable to sit still in a room at peace.”

— Blaise Pascal

#peace #stillness #evil

“Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards toward peace.”

— Soren Kierkegaard

#peace #understanding #forward

“An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind. Choose peace instead.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

#peace #revenge #blindness

“It is forbidden to kill. Therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. Peace forbids this.”

— Voltaire

#peace #killing #hypocrisy

“Do not walk behind me I may not lead. Do not walk in front of me I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend in peace.”

— Albert Camus

#peace #friendship #walking

“Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.”

— Pablo Neruda

#peace #creativity #poetry

“The line separating good and evil passes not through states or classes or political parties but through every human heart. Peace must be found in this divided heart.”

— Alexander Solzhenitsyn

#peace #heart #good and evil

“Rest satisfied with doing well and leave others to talk of you as they please. This is the way to peace.”

— Pythagoras

#peace #satisfaction #indifference

“Peace is the greatest weapon for development that any person can have.”

— Nelson Mandela

#peace #development #weapon

“If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each persons life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility and bring peace.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#peace #empathy #enemies

“There is no birthright more precious than peace of mind and no inheritance more valuable than the ability to find it.”

— Annie Besant

#peace #birthright #mind

“Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought which was peace.”

— Matsuo Basho

#peace #seeking #wisdom

“The secret of attraction is to love yourself. Peaceful people attract peaceful things.”

— Deepak Chopra

#peace #attraction #self-love

“To plunder to slaughter to steal these things they misname empire and where they make a desert they call it peace.”

— Tacitus

#peace #empire #false peace

“Find peace in every grain of sand and in every flower that blooms.”

— Emily Dickinson

#peace #nature #small things

“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves. The beginning of peace is the same.”

— Thomas Merton

#peace #acceptance #love

“The universe is change. Our life is what our thoughts make it. Choose thoughts of peace.”

— Marcus Aurelius

#peace #change #thoughts

“It is not so much our friends help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us in our pursuit of peace.”

— Epicurus

#peace #friendship #confidence

“The planet does not need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers healers restorers and lovers.”

— Dalai Lama

#peace #peacemakers #need

“All sins are attempts to fill voids. Peace fills those voids naturally.”

— Simone Weil

#peace #voids #fulfillment