"Radiate an energy of serenity and peace so that you have an uplifting effect on those you come into contact with."
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"No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence."
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"Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace."
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"The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error."
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"Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him."
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"Let's trade in all our judging for appreciating. Let's lay down our righteousness and just be together."
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"There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts."
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"Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace."
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"When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That's the message he is sending."
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"Peace at home, peace in the world."
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"Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose."
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"The earth is too small a star and we too brief a visitor upon it for anything to matter more than the struggle for peace."
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"All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone."
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"It is better to win the peace and to lose the war."
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"We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds."
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"It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf."
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"The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much."
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"Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace."
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"Where there is peace, God is."
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"Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people."
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