“When you're imagining peace, you can't kill anyone. That's good isn't it?”
Peaceful feeling
Peaceful Quotes — page 66 of 76
“Some people are saying there's going to be a third World War. I hope not. I really think this is a time that people can start to mend things by negotiations, dealings. We know about dealings, don't we? We have brilliant lawyers. Why don't we have brilliant lawyers standing up and working for peace?”
“At home I used to spend calm, pleasant nights with my family. My mother knit scarves for the neighborhood kids. My father helped Caleb with his homework. There was a fire in the fireplace and peace in my heart, as I was doing exactly what I was supposed to be doing, and everything was quiet. I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is restrained; this is free.”
“In order to have peace, we must first have trust.”
“It seems like the rebellions never stop, in the city, in the compound, anywhere. There are just breaths between them, and foolishly, we call those breaths “peace".”
“Honesty leads to peace.”
“I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is restrained; this is free.”
“Those who seek peace above all else, they say, will always deceive to keep the water calm.”
“Peace is restrained; this is free.”
“I see not any road of perfect peace which a man can walk but after the counsel of his own bosom.”
“Is there a difference? Yes. We are in harmony with nature, but never at peace.”
“Earth endures; Stars abide.”
“My hours are peaceful centuries.”
“Sometimes we receive the power to say yes to life. Then peace enters us and makes us whole.”
“I'm tired and it's taking an increasing amount out of me, more than I have to give physically. And that's why I want to move to Sicily and buy that little farm and raise a flock of goats and geese. I find it peaceful ... and it would be a nice way to end life.”
“She who is silent everywhere finds peace.”
“She who desires peace must see, suffer and be silent.”
“Submit to me." So she said nothing, but looked doggedly and sadly at the shore, wrapped in its mantle of peace; as if the people there had fallen alseep, she thought; were free like smoke, were free to come and go like ghosts. They have no suffering there, she thought.”
“All looked distant and peaceful and strange. The shore seemed refined, far away, unreal. Already the little distance they had sailed had put them far from it and given it the changed look, the composed look, of something receding in which one has no longer any part.”
“A single face turned upward toward all Time One flesh, one ecstasy, one peace.”