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☮️ Peace
“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
Gibran observes that talking often indicates an inner disturbance of peaceful thought.
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”
— Kahlil Gibran
“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.”
“Joy and sorrow are inseparable. Together they come and when one sits alone with you, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.”
“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 abundance.”
“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.”
“The appearance of things changes according to the emotions; and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.”
“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.”
— Gautama Buddha
“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
— Virginia Woolf
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
“The peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief.”
— Wendell Berry
— Gibran
“Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.”
— Christian Nestell Bovee
“Unquiet meals make ill digestions; therefore the happiness of a man's life is to be measured not by the great feasts, but by the frequency of his simple, pleasant repasts.”
— William Shakespeare
“A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.”
— Cicero
