#peace

452 quotes

“I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.”

— Unknown

“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

#nature #peace #oneness

“No man ever steps in the same river twice for it is not the same river and he is not the same man. This is the peace of change.”

— Heraclitus

#peace #change #flow

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

— Seneca

#peace #suffering #anticipation

“One can never have enough socks a good pair of thick winter socks can bring one closer to that simple peace of solitude”

— Virginia Woolf

#solitude #simplicity #peace

“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

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

— Marcus Aurelius

#peace #change #thoughts

“A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.”

— Cicero

#happiness #tranquility #peace

“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

“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”

— William James

#wisdom #perspective #discernment

“When I marched in Selma my legs were praying for peace.”

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

#peace #action #prayer

“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

“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

“Stillness is the key to all good things in life”

— Ryan Holiday

#simplicity #stillness #peace

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

— Baruch Spinoza

#peace #harmony #justice

“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

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

— Dag Hammarskjold

#peace #authenticity #conviction

“The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of peace and success.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

#peace #failure #seeds

“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

“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

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

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#peace #acceptance #continuity

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

— Alan Watts

#peace #non-interference #clarity

“Peace is not an absence of war; it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence.”

— Baruch Spinoza

#peace #virtue #benevolence

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

— Unknown

#peace #unity #belonging

“Smile breathe and go slowly.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

#time #mindfulness #peace

“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

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

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#peace #discussion #solutions

“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

“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

“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

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

— Voltaire

#peace #acceptance #good

“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

“Smile breathe and go slowly”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

#spirituality #peace #simplicity

“You cannot find peace by avoiding life”

— Virginia Woolf

#acceptance #peace #engagement

“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

“Smile breathe and go slowly.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

#time #mindfulness #peace

“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

“Peace in oneself peace in the world.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

#peace #self #world

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

— Mohandas Gandhi

#peace #poverty #violence

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

— Emily Dickinson

#peace #nature #small things

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

— Unknown

#justice #peace #truth

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act that leads to peace.”

— George Orwell

#peace #truth #revolution

“We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure and find peace.”

— Cesar Chavez

#peace #strength #despair

“A musician must make music an artist must paint a poet must write if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves and kind to the world”

— Abraham Maslow

#kindness #peace #creation

“To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.”

— Confucius

#acceptance #forgiveness #letting go

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

— Unknown

#peace #compassion #belonging

“If you let go a little you will have a little peace if you let go a lot you will have a lot of peace”

— Ajahn Chah

#spirituality #letting go #peace

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

— Confucius

#peace #persistence #slowness

“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

“If you let go a little you will have a little peace if you let go a lot you will have a lot of peace if you let go completely you will have complete peace”

— Ajahn Chah

#acceptance #letting go #peace

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

— Jane Addams

#peace #justice #tension

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

#peace #path #journey

“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

“Judge a person by their questions rather than by their answers. Peaceful people ask better questions.”

— Voltaire

#peace #questions #judgment

“If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present.”

— Lao Tzu

#peace #present #mindfulness

“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

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

— Jimmy Carter

#peace #children #education

“Peace begins with a smile.”

— Mother Teresa

#karma #peace #simplicity

“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

“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

“I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”

— Henry David Thoreau

#solitude #companionship #self-sufficiency

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

— Buddha

#karma #speech #peace

“No person is free who is not master of themselves. Self-mastery is the gateway to peace.”

— Epictetus

#peace #self-mastery #freedom

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

— Aristotle

#peace #education #roots

“Even as the holy ones of old were not combated by good and evil, so he who has reached perfection is not troubled by them.”

— Patanjali

#karma #transcendence #perfection

“If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present.”

— Lao Tzu

#presence #mindfulness #peace

“He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until at last peace comes.”

— Aeschylus

#peace #suffering #learning

“A noble spirit finds a cure for injustice in forgetting it.”

— Publilius Syrus

#forgiveness #peace #letting go

“Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness. Peace is the absence of striving for peace.”

— Zhuangzi

#peace #non-striving #happiness

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

— Franz Kafka

#peace #belief #creation

“Peace is not just the absence of conflict; peace is the creation of an environment where all can flourish.”

— Rigoberta Menchu

#peace #flourishing #environment

“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

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

— Tenzin Gyatso

#peace #kindness #religion

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

— Laozi

#peace #simplicity #compassion

“We can never judge the lives of others because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. Peace begins with understanding this.”

— Paulo Coelho

#peace #judgment #understanding

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

— Desmond Tutu

#peace #courage #reconciliation

“One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything every night before you go to bed.”

— Ann Landers

#compassion #forgiveness #peace

“Settle into solitude as if it were an old friend.”

— Rumi

#solitude #peace #acceptance

“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

“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

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

— Francis of Assisi

#peace #love #prayer

“The world is a dangerous place to live not because of the people who are evil but because of the people who dont do anything about it. Act for peace.”

— Albert Einstein

#peace #action #inaction

“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#peace #self-reliance #inner strength

“Gratitude is one of the sweet shortcuts to finding peace of mind and happiness inside.”

— Jack Canfield

#gratitude #peace #shortcut

“Nothing contributes so much to tranquillize the mind as a steady purpose — a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.”

— Mary Shelley

#purpose #peace #focus

“Nature never hurries, yet everything is accomplished.”

— Lao Tzu

#nature #patience #wisdom

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#peace #self-reliance #principles

“When we feel love and kindness toward others it not only makes others feel loved and cared for but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.”

— Dalai Lama

#abundance #love #peace

“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. Peace is organized love.”

— Immanuel Kant

#peace #organization #love

“A happy life consists in tranquillity of mind.”

— Cicero

#positive #peace #happiness

“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#peace #self #inner

“Compassion naturally creates a positive atmosphere and as a result you feel peaceful and content”

— Dalai Lama

#compassion #atmosphere #peace

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

— Khalil Gibran

#spirituality #silence #peace

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

— Thomas Paine

#peace #sacrifice #children

“What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.”

— Mother Teresa

#family #peace #love

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

— Unknown

#peace #evolution #humanity

“Peace cannot exist without justice justice cannot exist without fairness fairness cannot exist without development”

— Rigoberta Menchu

#justice #peace #development

“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

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

— Chief Joseph

#peace #surrender #seeking

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

— Thomas à Kempis

#peace #self-care #inner peace

“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. Decide to be peaceful.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#peace #decision #destiny

“For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#acceptance #patience #nature

“Sleep is the best meditation.”

— Unknown

#healing #sleep #rest

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

#love #light #peace

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

— Virgil

#peace #understanding #causes

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

— Albert Schweitzer

#peace #example #influence

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

— Abraham Lincoln

#peace #persistence #forward

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

— Dostoevsky

#peace #suffering #depth

“We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.”

— Dalai Lama

#abundance #peace #inner-work

“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.”

— Gautama Buddha

#mindfulness #presence #peace

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

— Wayne Dyer

#peace #control #inner

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

#peace #forgiveness #nonviolence

“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. Peace is the steadiness of wise choices.”

— Soren Kierkegaard

#peace #anxiety #freedom

“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

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

#peace #revenge #blindness

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

— Albert Einstein

#peace #understanding #force

“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

“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

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#peace #victory

“All of humanitys problems stem from our inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”

— Blaise Pascal

#stillness #peace #quiet

“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

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

— Albert Schweitzer

#compassion #peace #animals

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

— Sojourner Truth

#peace #truth #prevailing

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#peace #calm #pursuit

“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”

— Virginia Woolf

#peace #avoidance #life

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

— Kahlil Gibran

#abundance #peace #silence

“If you are peaceful then you will radiate that peace to others”

— Swami Satchidananda

#spirituality #peace #radiation

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

#peace #perception #truth

“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

“If you let go a little you will have a little peace and a little compassion grows”

— Ajahn Chah

#compassion #letting go #peace

“Let him who desires peace prepare for peace.”

— Petrarch

#peace #preparation #intention

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

— Dalai Lama

#peace #inner #protection

“A goal without a plan is just a wish. Peace without action is just a prayer.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#peace #action #planning

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

— Mother Teresa

#peace #belonging #connection

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

— Soren Kierkegaard

#peace #understanding #forward

“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

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

— Marcus Garvey

#peace #contentment #inner

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

— Frederick the Great

#peace #humility #simplicity

“The first peace which is the most important is that which comes within the souls of people”

— Black Elk

#spirituality #peace #soul

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

— Gibran

#silence #peace #thoughts

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

— George Washington

#peace #preparation #war

“Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.”

— James Allen

#work #joy #peace

“Peace begins with a smile.”

— Unknown

#peace #kindness #simplicity

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

#peace #being #change

“The peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief teaches us natural kindness”

— Wendell Berry

#kindness #peace #wild-things

“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

“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

#happiness #simplicity #daily life

“Smile breathe and go slowly”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

#purpose #simplicity #peace

“You cannot find peace by avoiding life”

— Virginia Woolf

#purpose #peace #engagement

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

— Helen Keller

#peace #understanding #desire

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

— Benjamin Franklin

#peace #war #judgment

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

— Plato

#peace #good actions #inspiration

“Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.”

— Baruch Spinoza

#peace #virtue #justice

“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

“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

“Sleep, rest of things, O pleasing deity, peace of the soul, which cares dost crucify, weary bodies refresh and mollify.”

— Ovid

#healing #sleep #rest

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. Love as if peace depends on it because it does.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

#peace #living #learning

“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

“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

“When we plant trees we plant the seeds of peace and the seeds of kindness”

— Wangari Maathai

#kindness #trees #peace

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

— Leo Tolstoy

#peace #self-change #world

“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

“If you want to be happy be. If you want peace choose it now.”

— Leo Tolstoy

#peace #choice #now

“The peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief.”

— Wendell Berry

#hope #peace #nature

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

— Swami Vivekananda

#peace #heart #conflict

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

— Henry David Thoreau

#peace #simplicity #detail

“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

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

— Jimi Hendrix

#love #power #peace

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

— Jimi Hendrix

#passion #love #peace

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

— Matsuo Basho

#peace #seeking #wisdom

“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

“The sage does not contend, and therefore no one can contend with him.”

— Lao Tzu

#acceptance #peace #non-resistance

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

— Karen Armstrong

#peace #traditions #heart

“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

“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, is by no means a waste of time.”

— John Lubbock

#healing #rest #nature

“Do not seek to have events happen as you want them to, but instead want them to happen as they do happen, and your life will go well.”

— Epictetus

#acceptance #stoicism #peace

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

— Plato

#peace #wisdom #speech

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

— Kahlil Gibran

#peace #silence #thoughts

“I will fight no more forever.”

— Chief Joseph

#peace #surrender #dignity

“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

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

— Cicero

#peace #memory #honoring

“The peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief.”

— Wendell Berry

#nature #peace #simplicity

“Do not anxiously hope for what is not yet come; do not vainly regret what is already past.”

— Lin Yutang's translation of Chinese proverb

#presence #mindfulness #peace

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

— Lao Tzu

#peace #self-knowledge #enlightenment

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

— Nelson Mandela

#peace #development #weapon

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

— Albert Schweitzer

#nature #compassion #peace

“The moon does not fight. It attacks no one. It does not worry. It does not try to crush others. It keeps to its course, but by its very nature, it gently influences.”

— Deng Ming-Dao

#acceptance #peace #nature

“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

“We hold our heads high despite the price we have paid because freedom and peace are priceless.”

— Lech Walesa

#peace #freedom #price

“Everyone thinks of changing humanity but nobody thinks of changing himself first toward peace.”

— Leo Tolstoy

#peace #self-change #humanity

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

— Blaise Pascal

#peace #stillness #problems

“In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.”

— Deepak Chopra

#stillness #peace #chaos

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

— Aesop

#peace #simplicity #contentment

“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

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

— Kahlil Gibran

#peace #pain #understanding

“Own only what you can always carry with you. Let your memory be your travel bag and find peace in traveling light.”

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#peace #simplicity #traveling

“A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.”

— Joseph Addison

#gratitude #contentment #blessing

“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

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

— Khalil Gibran

#hope #silence #peace

“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

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

— Khalil Gibran

#peace #present #memory

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

— Epictetus

#peace #sufficiency #wants

“Peace comes from within do not seek it without”

— Buddha

#spirituality #peace #within

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#peace #anger #time

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

— Marcus Aurelius

#peace #thoughts #happiness

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

— George Eliot

#peace #potential #timing

“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

“Until we extend our circle of compassion to all living things we will not ourselves find peace”

— Albert Schweitzer

#compassion #all living things #peace

“Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open? Walk through it toward peace.”

— Rumi

#peace #prison #freedom

“In the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti full of peace and joy but encompassed by all the horrors of the half-lived life.”

— Herman Melville

#nature #soul #peace

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

— Paulo Coelho

#peace #rising #drowning

“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

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

— Montesquieu

#peace #trade #dependence

“Peace is not an absence of war it is a virtue a state of mind a disposition for benevolence confidence justice”

— Baruch Spinoza

#justice #peace #virtue

“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong and the path to peace.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

#peace #forgiveness #strength

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

— Hannah Arendt

#peace #forgiveness #freedom

“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

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

— Simone de Beauvoir

#peace #action #now

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

— Marcus Aurelius

#peace #injury #rejection

“A musician must make music an artist must paint a poet must write if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself”

— Abraham Maslow

#passion #expression #peace

“If you let go a little, you will have a little peace. If you let go a lot, you will have a lot of peace.”

— Ajahn Chah

#letting-go #peace #freedom

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

— Buddha

#peace #inner #seeking

“The peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief.”

— Wendell Berry

#peace #wild #nature

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

— A.J. Muste

#peace #path #philosophy

“Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.”

— Lao Tzu

#simplicity #contentment #gratitude

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

— Wangari Maathai

#nature #trees #peace

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

— Albert Schweitzer

#peace #compassion #all life

“Who looks outside dreams. Who looks inside awakes to peace.”

— Carl Jung

#peace #inner #awakening

“The peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief comes to me naturally.”

— Wendell Berry

#peace #wild things #grief

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

— Thomas More

#peace #education #schooling

“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

“It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.”

— Aristotle

#peace #wisdom #planning

“A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life.”

— Suze Orman

#abundance #freedom #peace

“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

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

— Unknown

#peace #faith #spiritual

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

— William James

#peace #choice #stress

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

— Voltaire

#peace #guilt #inaction

“What I am pointing to is the possibility of complete and total peace right here right now regardless of any circumstances internal or external”

— Gangaji

#solitude #peace #here now

“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. Peace is what happens when patience meets understanding.”

— Seneca

#peace #patience #understanding

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

— Rumi

#peace #beyond judgment #meeting

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

— Dalai Lama V

#peace #knowledge #understanding

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

— Plato

#peace #choice #daily

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

— Simone Weil

#peace #voids #fulfillment

“The best revenge is not to be like your enemy. The best response is peace.”

— Marcus Aurelius

#peace #revenge #response

“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 peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief”

— Wendell Berry

#simplicity #peace #nature

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

— Deepak Chopra

#peace #attraction #self-love

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

— Sophocles

#peace #patience #timing

“As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace.”

— Pythagoras

#gratitude #compassion #peace

“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

“All shall be well and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well”

— Julian of Norwich

#solitude #assurance #peace

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

— George Michael

#peace #heart #intuition

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

— Pablo Neruda

#peace #creativity #poetry

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

— Herodotus

#peace #war #loss

“If we have not peace within ourselves it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#gratitude #peace #inner

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

— Albert Camus

#peace #inner #invincible

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#peace #happiness #self-reliance

“Looking for peace is like looking for a turtle with a mustache you wont find it but when your heart is ready peace will come looking for you”

— Ajahn Chah

#spirituality #peace #readiness

“Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the earth for modesty. Be like the sea for tolerance. This is the way of peace.”

— Rumi

#peace #nature #virtues

“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware. Many lead to unexpected peace.”

— Martin Buber

#peace #journey #secret

“The peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief”

— Wendell Berry

#acceptance #peace #wild

“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

“How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself and therefore cannot find peace.”

— Publilius Syrus

#peace #self-forgiveness #unhappiness

“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

“I pray that there will be peace in the world through art”

— Yayoi Kusama

#creativity #peace #spirituality

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

— Bob Marley

#peace #music #painless

“Smile breathe and go slowly”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

#simplicity #mindfulness #peace

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

— Jimi Hendrix

#peace #love #power

“To go wrong in ones own way is better than to go right in someone elses. At least you are at peace with your choices.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

#peace #authenticity #choices

“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

“We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves and faith is the peacemaker within”

— Dalai Lama

#faith #peace #inner

“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

“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

“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

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

— Sri Chinmoy

#peace #love #power

“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

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

— Leo Tolstoy

#peace #patience #time

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

— Virgil

#peace #wisdom #fortune

“The ten thousand things flourish and then each returns to the root. Returning to the root is stillness.”

— Laozi

#peace #nature #stillness

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

— Thucydides

#peace #freedom #courage

“If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present.”

— Lao Tzu

#presence #peace #awareness

“Beauty will save the world. Peace will sustain it.”

— Dostoyevsky

#peace #beauty #salvation

“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.”

— Gautama Buddha

#life #presence #mindfulness

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

— Hafiz

#peace #fear #living

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

— Gautama Buddha

#peace #inner peace #mindfulness

“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act with beauty and peace.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#peace #dragons #beauty

“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

“Peace is not the product of terror or fear peace is not the silence of cemeteries”

— Oscar Romero

#justice #peace #truth

“If you let go a little you will have a little peace. If you let go a lot you will have a lot of peace.”

— Ajahn Chah

#letting-go #peace #practice

“Peace is not an absence of war. It is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.”

— Baruch Spinoza

#peace #virtue #disposition

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

— George Washington

#peace #strength #preparation

“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

“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

“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

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

— Albert Camus

#peace #country #justice

“Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.”

— Francis of Assisi

#spirituality #peace #meditation

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

— Kofi Annan

#peace #dignity #equality

“If you let go a little you will have a little peace if you let go a lot you will have a lot of peace”

— Ajahn Chah

#solitude #letting go #peace

“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.”

— Gautama Buddha

#present moment #mindfulness #focus

“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

“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

“To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.”

— Jane Austen

#nature #rest #simplicity

“Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.”

— Victor Hugo

#faith #courage #peace

“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

“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

“Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.”

— George Washington

#justice #peace #diplomacy

“Ultimately we have just one moral duty to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves through compassion”

— Etty Hillesum

#compassion #peace #moral duty

“Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything.”

— André Gide

#acceptance #detachment #presence

“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”

— Virginia Woolf

#peace #engagement #courage

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

— Siddhartha Gautama

#peace #words #simplicity

“Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy. Peace is the reward of patience.”

— Saadi Shirazi

#peace #patience #difficulty

“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”

— Virginia Woolf

#peace #life

“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

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

— Socrates

#peace #examination #worth

“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

“Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.”

— Albert Schweitzer

#kindness #persistence #peace

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

— Buddha

#karma #peace #inner-work

“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

“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

“In the midst of movement and chaos keep stillness inside of you.”

— Deepak Chopra

#hope #stillness #peace

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

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#peace #journey #meaning

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

— Rumi

#peace #wounds #light

“My heart is at ease knowing that what was meant for me will never miss me and that what misses me was never meant for me.”

— Imam Shafii

#gratitude #destiny #peace

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

— Thomas a Kempis

#peace #self #others

“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

“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

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

— Francis of Assisi

#peace #instrument #love

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

— Thich Nhat Hanh

#peace #letting go #freedom

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

— Buddha

#peace #self

“Smile breathe and go slowly.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

#time #mindfulness #peace

“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

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

— Albert Schweitzer

#nature #compassion #peace

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

— Walt Whitman

#peace #multitudes #reservoir

“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

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

— Martin Luther King Jr.

#peace #justice #righteousness

“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”

— Virginia Woolf

#peace #avoidance #engagement

“You cannot find peace by avoiding life and you cannot find time by avoiding the present”

— Virginia Woolf

#time #peace #avoiding

“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

“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

“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

“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

“There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#gratitude #peace #calm

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

— Bertrand Russell

#peace #war #wisdom

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

— William Ewart Gladstone

#peace #love #power

“The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.”

— John Berry

#letting go #openness #peace

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

— Seneca

#peace #transcendence #difficulty

“Resign every forbidden joy; restrain every wish that is not referred to God's will; banish all eager desires, all anxiety.”

— François Fénelon

#acceptance #surrender #peace

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

— Erich Fromm

#peace #giving #richness

“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

“To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.”

— Lao Tzu

#spirituality #stillness #universe

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

— Leonard Cohen

#peace #cracks #light

“My heart has become capable of every form. A pasture for gazelles and a house of peace for all.”

— Ibn Arabi

#peace #heart #capacity

“Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and He shall sustain thee.”

— King David

#faith #surrender #strength

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

#karma #revenge #peace

“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

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

— Desiderata

#peace #silence #placidity

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

— Aristotle

#peace #happiness #self-dependence

“Smile, breathe, and go slowly.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

#spirituality #peace #mindfulness

“Smile breathe and go slowly.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

#time #mindfulness #peace

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

— Dalai Lama

#peace #peacemakers #need

“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

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

— Aristotle

#peace #war #purpose

“The peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief”

— Wendell Berry

#solitude #wild things #peace

“I alone cannot change the world but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples of peace.”

— Mother Teresa

#peace #ripples #individual

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

— Nelson Mandela

#peace #education #weapon

“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

“The ego says once everything falls into place I will find peace the spirit says find peace and everything will fall into place for healing”

— Marianne Williamson

#healing #peace #spirit

“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

“Smile breathe and go slowly.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

#karma #mindfulness #peace

“Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#peace #self-reliance #inner

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

— Dorothy Thompson

#peace #conflict #coping

“Go out into the solitude and close the door behind thee. Let the manifold world that makes thee dizzy vanish from thy sight.”

— Mechthild of Magdeburg

#solitude #retreat #spiritual

“There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people. Peace is the only worthy banner.”

— Howard Zinn

#peace #innocence #shame

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

— Joan Baez

#peace #action #despair

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

— Heraclitus

#peace #change #constancy

“You cannot find peace by avoiding life”

— Virginia Woolf

#empowerment #engagement #peace

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

— Dag Hammarskjold

#peace #dynamic #life

“Those who are certain of the outcome can afford to wait and wait without anxiety.”

— Gabby Bernstein

#certainty #patience #peace

“You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger.”

— Gautama Buddha

#peace #anger #consequences

“I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends and bring them peace.”

— Abraham Lincoln

#peace #friendship #enemies

“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

“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

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

— Unknown

#peace #hate #darkness

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

— Yoko Ono

#peace #dreams #together

“To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.”

— Lao Tzu

#stillness #mindfulness #peace

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

— Wangari Maathai

#peace #trees #planting

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

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

#peace #courage #new steps

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

— Mary Oliver

#peace #attention #astonishment

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

— Euripides

#peace #friendship #loyalty

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to make the world more peaceful.”

— Anne Frank

#peace #immediacy #action

“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

“The greatest challenge of the day is how to bring about a revolution of the heart a revolution which has to start with each one of us toward peace.”

— Dorothy Day

#peace #revolution #heart

“Iron rusts from disuse water loses its purity from stagnation. Even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. Use your mind for peace.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

#peace #action #mind

“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

“Be willing to be a beginner every single morning and you will find peace in fresh starts.”

— Meister Eckhart

#peace #beginnings #morning

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

— Meister Eckhart

#peace #stillness #divine

“Gentleness and kindness will make our homes a paradise upon earth.”

— C.A. Bartol

#kindness #gentleness #home

“You are the sky. Everything else is just the weather. Your fundamental nature is peace.”

— Pema Chodron

#peace #sky #nature

“You cannot find peace by avoiding life but only by immersing yourself in it with wonder”

— Virginia Woolf

#wonder #peace #immersion

“Rest in natural great peace this exhausted mind beaten helpless by karma and neurotic thought”

— Patrul Rinpoche

#acceptance #rest #peace

“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

“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”

— Virginia Woolf

#gratitude #peace #engagement

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

— Isaac Asimov

#peace #competence #violence

“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

“In a few decades the relationship between the environment resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection between human rights democracy and peace.”

— Wangari Maathai

#peace #environment #conflict

“Through faith a person is made whole and finds peace not in the absence of trouble, but in the midst of it.”

— Meister Eckhart

#faith #peace #wholeness

“Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.”

— Christian Nestell Bovee

#happiness #peace #moderation

“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

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

— Dalai Lama

#peace #inner #development

“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

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

— Carl Sagan

#peace #vastness #love

“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

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

— Albert Einstein

#peace #imagination #progress

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

— Bertrand Russell

#peace #caution #love

“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

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

— Harriet Tubman

#peace #dreams #refusal

“I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.”

— John Burroughs

#nature #healing #senses

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

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

#peace #society #transformation

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

— Horace

#peace #brevity #advice

“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

“Compassion and love are not mere luxuries as the source of both inner and outer peace they are fundamental”

— Lama Surya Das

#compassion #peace #fundamental

“Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation. But peace requires commitment.”

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#peace #commitment #goal

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

— Gautama Buddha

#peace #love #hatred

“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

“If we have not peace within ourselves it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#gratitude #peace #inner

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

— Mitch Albom

#peace #self-acceptance

“The moon does not fight. It attacks no one. It does not worry. It does not try to crush others. It keeps to its course, but by its very nature, it gently influences.”

— Deng Ming-Dao

#peace #influence #nature

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

— Ovid

#peace #courage #defense

“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

“With guns you can kill terrorists with education you can kill terrorism and build peace.”

— Malala Yousafzai

#peace #education #terrorism

“You cannot find peace by avoiding life”

— Virginia Woolf

#resilience #engagement #peace

“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

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

— A.J. Muste

#peace #path #method

“The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us the less taste we shall have for destruction.”

— Rachel Carson

#nature #attention #peace

“A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.”

— Joseph Addison

#abundance #contentment #blessing

“Let nothing disturb you let nothing frighten you. All things are passing away. God never changes. Patience obtains all things.”

— Teresa of Avila

#hope #patience #peace

“The darker the night the brighter the stars. The deeper the grief the closer is the dawn of peace.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

#peace #darkness #dawn

“A happy family is but an earlier heaven.”

— George Bernard Shaw

#family #happiness #home

“He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#family #home #peace

“Peace is always beautiful.”

— Walt Whitman

#peace #beauty #simplicity

“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

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

— Gautama Buddha

#peace #words #wisdom

“As long as humanity continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings it will never know health or peace.”

— Pythagoras

#nature #harmony #peace

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

— Mother Teresa

#compassion #peace #belonging

“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

“He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or judge all he sees.”

— Benjamin Franklin

#peace #wisdom #restraint

“Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.”

— Gautama Buddha

#karma #peace #resentment

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

— Nhat Hanh

#peace #breath #step

“Solitude is the audience-chamber of God.”

— Walter Savage Landor

#solitude #spirituality #reflection

“With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.”

— Lope de Vega

#simplicity #contentment #beauty

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