“If there is to be peace in the home, There must be peace in the heart.”
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Peaceful Quotes — page 42 of 76
“Peace is our natural state of being.”
“Peace and quiet govern the world.”
“Better than a meaningless story of a thousand words is a single word of deep meaning which, when heard, produces peace.”
“If a viper lives in your room and you wish to have a peaceful sleep, you must first chase it out.”
“Peace is the greatest weapon for development that any person can have.”
“Where people of goodwill get together and transcend their differences for the common good, peaceful and just solutions can be found even for those problems which seem most intractable.”
“What is most important is to find peace and to share it with others. To have peace, you can begin by walking peacefully. Everything depends on your steps.”
“If you establish serenity and happiness inside yourself, you provide the world with a solid base of peace. If you do not give yourself peace, how can you share it with others? If you do not begin your peace work with yourself, where will you go to begin it?”
“Peace is present right here and now, in ourselves and in everything.”
“The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.”
“No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.”
“No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it, by vigorously willing to have it ... Peace is a consciousness of springs too deep for earthly droughts to dry up. Peace is the gift not of volitional struggle but of spiritual hospitality.”
“What each one of us fundamentally needs is that inner peace which is to be discovered solely within ourselves, which no-one else can give, which the world with all its resources, can never supply.”
“Filled with rapture, his soul yearned for freedom, space, vastness. Over him the heavenly dome, full of quiet, shining stars, hung boundlessly. From the zenith to the horizon the still-dim Milky Way stretched its double strand. Night, fresh and quiet, almost unstirring, enveloped the earth. The white towers and golden domes of the church gleamed in the sapphire sky. The luxuriant autumn asleep till morning. The silence of the earth seemed to merge with the silence of the heavens and the mystery of the earth touched the mystery of the stars.”
“Peace is not merely an absence of war. It is also a state of mind.”
“I think the perception of peace is what distracts most people from really having it.”
“I don't think there's any way that war can have a place in peace. I think that peace is the active and difficult resistance to the temptation of war; it is the prerogative and the obligation of the injured. Peace is something that has to be vigilantly maintained; it is a vigilance, and it involves temptation, and it does not mean we as human beings are not aggressive. This is a mistaken way of understanding non-violence.”
“How I like claret!...It fills one's mouth with a gushing freshness, then goes down to cool and feverless; then, you do not feel it quarrelling with one's liver. No; 'tis rather a peace-maker, and lies as quiet as it did in the grape. Then it is as fragrant as the Queen Bee, and the more ethereal part mounts into the brain, not assaulting the cerebral apartments, like a bully looking for his trull, and hurrying from door to door, bouncing against the wainscott, but rather walks like Aladdin about his enchanted palace, so gently that you do not feel his step.”
“We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.”