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"Build your inner environment. Practice Silence! I remember the wonderful discipline of the Great Ones. When we used to talk and chatter, they would say: "Go back into your inner castle." It was very hard to comprehend then, but now I understand the way of peace"
"The adrenaline and stress of an adventure are better than a thousand peaceful days."
"Man's greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of making peace with his neighbors"
"And now, dear Lord, I acknowledge afresh that You are the God of all peace, my Jehovah-Shalom. My job is to receive. you give me Your peace. My job is to take it. You lead me to Your still waters. My role is to follow. You extend Your hand. My role is to take hold. My I enjoy Your presence and the tranquility of the still waters where You pour out your promise of peace. Amen."
"A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety."
"It's not the tragedies that kill us; it's the messes."
"In art, and in the higher ranges of science, there is a feeling of harmony which underlies all endeavor. There is no true greatness in art or science without that sense of harmony."
"All of man's wars are based upon TAKING. There could be no war based upon GIVING."
"I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience."
"In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility: But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger; Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage; Then lend the eye a terrible aspect; . . . . Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide, Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit To his full height. On, on, you noblest English."
"There are no right answers to wrong questions."
"Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth, are never alone or weary of life."
"There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come."
"War...is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer."
"If you yourself are at peace, then there is at least some peace in the world."
"Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories."
"After every happiness comes misery; they may be far apart or near. The more advanced the soul, the more quickly does one follow the other. What we want is neither happiness nor misery. Both make us forget our true nature; both are chains-one iron, one gold; behind both is the Atman, who knows neither happiness nor misery. These are states, and states must ever change; but the nature of the Atman is bliss, peace, unchanging. We have not to get it, we have it; only wash away the dross and see it."
"A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion."
"Nothing should be left to an invaded people except their eyes for weeping."
"The best weapon is to sit down and talk."
