Peace

The more we practice nonviolence in our words, thoughts and actions the more peaceful will be our inner state.

People say you can't have peace without a war, but on the contrary they say they don't support war. You can not, ever achieve happiness from focusing on suffering, you have to change your perspective. World peace starts with Inner peace.

I take it that what all men are really after is some form of perhaps only some formula of peace.

Declaring our intentions for a safer and kinder world is the obvious first step toward attaining those goals.

Civilization has provided no peace, no spectacle, no assurance to the human heart which can transcend the simple, ever-changing, matchless beauty and peace of the natural world.

Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.

The charm of variety there was not, nor the excitement of incident; but I liked peace so well, and sought stimulus so little, that when the latter came I almost felt it a disturbance, and rather still wished it had held aloof.

Peace is not wimpy. It's about sitting down and negotiating with people you hate. Ultimately, all occupation ends, and you have to deal with the enemy.

You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world.... We are not a nation, so much as a world.

The fact that religions, which usually have at their core a promotion of tolerance and peace, have been exploited to carry out violence clearly indicates that individuals and groups have not discovered the true 'peace message' that is inherent in almost every religion. (by Cilliers, Ch. 3, p. 55).

I tell you loneliness is the thing to master. Courage and fear, love, death are only parts of it and can easily be ruled afterwards. If I make myself master my own loneliness there will be peace or safety: and perhaps these are the same.

Wishing that I could stay right here in this moment of not doing, but simply being, forever.

...An ethnically heterogeneous society without a unifying hero is bound to be torn apart by internal strife. Only a man capable of bringing about a workable consensus between the diverse people is truly a hero. Such a man has to be a true disciple of peace, unity, solidarity and justice.

She imagined herself drowning along the tides of Sumendu Lake, down own into the depths of solemn solitude, splashing into the serenity of forever silence.

True, lasting peace comes not through stamping out the ignorance of others, but through cultivating acceptance with ourselves.

Bonobos are... Ambassadors from a primordial world of peace through pleasure, inviting us in one kiss at a time.

We can bring peace in the world, not by eliminating violence in the world, but by finding the causes of violence and by preventing those from infecting the society.

For him who has no concentration there is no tranquility.

Peace is not found in the sea.It is found when I dream of eternity.

Be the same still mountain self and mountain peace no matter what the external conditions.