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Let the light of your love enlighten the whole world and fill it with joy, happiness, and peace.
— Debasish Mridha M.D.
Cultivate blessing. Bless yourself. Bless the whole world. Let it be full with love, peace, joy and happiness.
— Amit Ray, Walking the Path of Compassion
A society that chooses between capitalism and socialism does not choose between two social systems
—  it chooses between social cooperation and the disintegration of society.
from that terrible love the soft pure handsgave peace to my eyes and sun to my senses.
— Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.
— Alexis de Tocqueville
Healthy people know not to gorge on anger. At the end of the day, they walk away. They choose to end it. And it’s an easier choice the next time.
— Steve Goodier
But dream not helm and harness The sign of valor true
—  Peace hath higher tests of manhood Than battle ever knew.
Peace is a precious and a desirable thing. Our generation, bloodied in wars, certainly deserves peace. But peace, like almost all things of this world, has its price, a high but a measurable one. We in Poland do not know the concept of peace at any price. There is only one thing in the lives of men, nations and countries that is without price. That thing is honor.
— Józef Beck
A candle, a book and a peaceful person mean three candles for the world!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
NO TRUTH, NO LIGHTNo truth, no equality. No equality, no justice. No justice, no peace. No peace, no love. No love, only darkness.
— Suzy Kassem
The highest goodness is like water.Water is beneficial to all things but not contend. It stays in places which others despise. Therefore it is near Tao. The weakest things in the world can overmatch the strongest things in the world. Nothing in the world can be compared to water for its weak and yielding nature; yet in attacking the hard and strong nothing proves better than water. For there is no alternative to it. The weak can overcome and the yielding can overcame the hard. This all the world knows but does not practice. This again is the practice of ‘wu-wel’ and nonviolence. Water may be weak, pliable, fluid, but its action is not one of running away from an obstacle. On the contrary, it gives at the point of resistance, envelopes the object and passes beyond it. Ultimately it will wear down the hardest rock. Water is a more telling symbol than land… crossing the river to get to the other side is, again, attaining the state of enlightenment.
— J.C. Cooper
There is little doubt that those who get the most from life are those who look for the wonder in even the smallest things they do. Cultivate this skill and you'll find peace and satisfaction as well.
— Paul Wilson, The Little Book of Calm
The change from self-centeredness to human-centeredness is the key to peaceful existence.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Peace in the home is the peace for the community.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The glorious presence of God is with us. Let us rise in mighty strength to build the nation.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
When you cross that chasm so that what you believe to be true merges into what is actually true, you have earned the right to inner peace.
— Hyrum W. Smith, The 3 Gaps: Are You Making a Difference?
I trade all my pains for the peace of God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
There are two paths that you must never leave in your life: The path of peace and the path of reason!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Our lives go by in our own minds. The war is inside our heads and only we can return the peace. It is essential to remember that in one sense we are always right. If we say, we can, we can. If we say we cannot, that’s how it is, we cannot.
— Mabel Katz, The Easiest Way
The first act in the training of a warrior should be how to string his rifle and turn it into a guitar
— Agona Apell, The Success Genome Unravelled: Turning Men from Rot to Rock
The peace in the homes is the peace in the towns.The peace in the towns is the peace in the nation.The peace in the nation is the peace in the world.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Look into my eyes andYou'll see my mind.A tranquil city,That rebuilt itself and left the past behind.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, This Is My Life
Despite all of the violence, suffering and wars, don’t forget to sing the song of love, harmony, and peace.
— Debasish Mridha
I trade all my pains for peace of God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Demonstrating verbal kindness looks better on everyone know matter what the situation. There's a peace in the heart of the kind person who handles everything with love.
— Ron Baratono
Inner peace gives calmness of soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Mourn with those are sorrowful.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Killing in the name of religion defines someone who is ignorant and actually void of religion. God does not condone terror. To kill innocent people to make a political statement is like shooting a dove to say hunting is wrong.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Power is given only to those you allow to have power over you. No man was born with a master. The only master of all is the Creator, and he created all men to be free. Freedom is a God-given right, not a human-granted gift. No man should have to fight to breathe in good health and peace.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Go into the London Stock Exchange – a more respectable place than many a court – and you will see representatives from all nations gathered together for the utility of men. Here Jew, Mohammedan and Christian deal with each other as though they were all of the same faith, and only apply the word infidel to people who go bankrupt. Here the Presbyterian trusts the Anabaptist and the Anglican accepts a promise from the Quaker. On leaving these peaceful and free assemblies some go to the Synagogue and others for a drink, this one goes to be baptized in a great bath in the name of Father, Son and Holy Ghost, that one has his son’s foreskin cut and has some Hebrew words he doesn’t understand mumbled over the child, others go to heir church and await the inspiration of God with their hats on, and everybody is happy.
— Voltaire
To carry each other’s burdens, we must care for one another.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The act of communicating with one another is the beginning of friendship.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Inner peace is the sacred-strength of peaceful existence.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Every war, no matter how brutal, is built on the premise that one day, when all is said and done, the ends will justify the means. But over and over again we learn that in real life, there is no ends. There’s just the means. All there is is means.
— Raphael Bob-Waksberg
We have to learn to live in peace with each other
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Be at peace with yourself and everyone. It is the greatest inner strength.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Inner peace comes from the Creator.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Peace is possible with understanding of each other.Understanding is love for one another.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
You can't win a fight with a fight.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Be at peace with yourself and with all humankind.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
For so many families, here and abroad, the war is just beginning. The emotional and political fallout will crawl across generations—the casualties can never be fully counted.Every war, no matter how brutal, is built on the premise that one day, when all is said and done, the ends will justify the means. But over and over again we learn that in real life, there is no ends. There’s just the means. All there is is means.
— Raphael Bob-Waksberg
The greatest strength are rooted in love, joy, peace, patient, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self control.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
To live in peace is gracious.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
May we reach out to one another in love, in faith and in kindness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The greatest thing we can do is love another.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
You touched my heart by your kindness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
We must begin to speak with each other in a gentle manner.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Let us welcome each other with tender love.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The gentleness of your action touched my heart.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
We live in a world where terrorism has a more familiar meaning than peace.
— Keely Barton
A blessed deed is saying hello with a smile to someone you meet on the street, in the shop, in the bus, in the office, in the church, in the holy places, in the mosque, at the park, at the school, at the university…..’ This is the greatest action of belonging to one another.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The greatest conduct is love in action.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
There is still peace left in the world,and only those with beauty in their soul,care enough to be it.
— Jenim Dibie, The Calligraphy of God
God bless all people.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
You deserve respect and appreciation. A person who doesn't have respect for themselves will more than likely not give it to you. You have to set the standard for yourself by not allowing the insolence.
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Release The Ink
May the love in your heart overshadow any sorrows, and may you always know with a deep inner certainty, how loved you truly are.
— Jodi Livon
And the peace! The most magnificent peace. I lose myself in a place where time no longer exists and nothing is impossible. I can do anything I imagine. I can fight and win any war. Nothing frightens me, because I know I'm here for a reason; and I'm not alone. I have friends in high places. Friends here. Friends up there. Victory is mine.
— Gena Showalter, A Mad Zombie Party
Praying for the people that hurt you may not change them, but it will change you.
— Shannon L. Alder
If a person is not inspiring you positively. There is no reason for you to be around them. You don't need their negativity in your life. There's already too much in the world. Surround yourself with people who are going to uplift you and encourage you to move forward with your dreams and goals.
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Release The Ink
God would prefer us all to be united than divided. The devil would prefer us all to be divided than united. God prefers the man who loves than the one who hates. The devil prefers the man who hates than the one who loves.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Outside, snow solidified itself into graceful forms. The peace of winter stars seemed permanent.
— Toni Morrison, Beloved
In the aftermath, we are because they were.
— R.J.  Heller, Holding Grace: Prose & Poetry
Rhetorical bombast, music and song resound, banners wave, flowers and colors serve as symbols, and the leaders seek to attach their followers to their own person. Liberalism has nothing to do with all this. It has no party flower and no party color, no party song and no party idols, no symbols and no slogans. It has the substance and the arguments. These must lead it to victory.
— Ludwig von Mises
Time is valuable in life. You can show someone how much you appreciate them by giving your time. A good amount of time goes by each day. Spending time with the ones you love shows them how much you care.
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Release The Ink
Resist any form of oppression.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
In life,You can either play the hand you've been dealt or decide to fold. Just remember that you are not alone in this journey of life. People experience hardships all the time. You learn from those difficult moments and become stronger.
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Release The Ink
Love is the beginning of understanding.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
When the power of LOVE is more important than the love of money, religion and power, and people realize that the most important things in this life are NOT things,the world will finally know peace.
— Tanya Masse
The behaviour and attitude of another person's towards you reflect their state of inner self and mindset.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Don't react to any angry actions, words and behaviours. Keep your quiet spirit, peace and calmness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
In the horrors of war, please bring me peace.
— Anthony Liccione
We are all human, so we may trespass each other. But there is always grace for forgiveness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Gentleness is a great strength.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
With gentleness, you will calm every aggressive action.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Islam might not be a challenge for our survival, but when it comes from the Saudis, it really is a concerning problem for the world peace and prosperity.
— M.F. Moonzajer
We are sisters. We are brothers. We are family.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Your happiness is my happiness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Refuse to react to any angry actions.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
We ought to love and be gentle with one another.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
If you possess a gentle spirit will move mountains.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Entrepreneurial capitalism takes more people out of poverty than aid.
— Bono
By portraying war as an opportunity for virtuous acts, the politicians romanticize evil.
— Sheldon Richman
Peace is something you only have when your enemy is gone. Either after you have turned him into a friend or vanquished him
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
If you live your life to please others, sometimes you neglect yourself. You deserve happiness. You deserve peace. You deserve love and respect. Don't get caught up and deprive the very essence of you
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Sweet Destiny
Which countries contain the most peaceful, the most moral, and the happiest people? Those people are found in the countries where the law least interferes with private affairs; where government is least felt; where the individual has the greatest scope, and free opinion the greatest influence; where administrative powers are fewest and simplest; where taxes are lightest and most nearly equal, and popular discontent the least excited and the least justifiable; where individuals and groups most actively assume their responsibilities, and, consequently, where the morals of admittedly imperfect human beings are constantly improving; where trade, assemblies, and associations are the least restricted; where labor, capital, and populations suffer the fewest forced displacements; where mankind most nearly follows its own natural inclinations; where the inventions of men are most nearly in harmony with the laws of God; in short, the happiest, most moral, and most peaceful people are those who most nearly follow this principle: Although mankind is not perfect, still, all hope rests upon the free and voluntary actions of persons within the limits of right; law or force is to be used for nothing except the administration of universal justice.
— Frédéric Bastiat
When you focus your attention more on your dreams and goals and less on the opinions of others, you are capable of achieving success. No one knows the desires of your heart better than you.
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Release The Ink
A nation that is divided, need love to be united.
— Victor Dunsin
You don't blame your shadow for the shape of your body, just the same, don't blame others for the shape of your experience.
— Gillian Duce
A stranger is a friend you have not met before.
— Quince
It is wonderful for us to live together in love, in peace and in faith.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
There was simply no peace to be had no matter where you hid yourself away. Even in a northern border town of such intensely chaotic oddity and corruption there was still some greater chaos, some deeper insanity, than one had counted on, or could ever be taken into account - wherever there was anything, there would be chaos and insanity to such a degree that one could never come to terms with it, and it was only a matter of time before your world, whatever you thought it to be, was undermined, if not completely overrun, by another world.
— Thomas Ligotti, Teatro Grottesco
You never know how strong you are until you've been tested. People will try you on every level. They may think because you're not loud or rude like them that you won't put them in their place. But, push the wrong buttons and you'll soon find out.
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Release The Ink
It's useless to disarm the hands, if the heart remains armed
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
We encountered beautiful souls on the travel path.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Man will tell woman he will die for her, but I say, tell woman that you will die for her both physically and interior
— Andrew Smith
There is no greater peace than work and no greater happiness than progress.
— Sharad Vivek Sagar
We live in a cruel world, Isabel," he says, without looking at me. "I am only a man, and will not always live up to your expectations. And to me, that is a painful reality. But we must never be cruel to one another. Let there be peace between us.
— Sylvia Bambola, The Salt Covenants
All situations can be resolved peaceful. We should advocate for kindness instead of violence.
— Mary Sage Nguyen
The world will know peace when the entrepreneur fully masters the art of starving the politician.
— Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski
Be gentle with all people. We all have different struggles.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Poetry, will you show me where your words find peace?
— Delano Johnson, Rare Images of Love
If you want to experience joy and happiness in life, you must free your mind. Don't become a prisoner to your thoughts. Don't allow your perceptions to be the only views you believe. Allow truth to penetrate your core as it sets you free
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana
Sex is a powerful intent to create: the creation of pleasure, creation of love, and ultimately the creation of life. It connects and syncs two beings emotionally, physically, and mentally and is one of the strongest expressions of love that exists in this World.
— Forrest Curran, Purple Buddha Project: Purple Book of Self-Love
Being scared to fail inspires creativity; heartbreak inspires creativity; being hurt by others inspires creativity; being lost inspires creativity. Your masterpiece isn’t something that you will have made in the colorful, it is understood in the darkness. Use the anxiety within and let it serve you.
— Forrest Curran
Give yourself freedom to grow through love, as love is the most natural direction for humans to grow, just as every tree grows upward towards the sky. Don’t try to control the way that love moves, as any attempt will be futile, for love grows like the branches, wildly growing by the laws of nature, rather than by human rational. Let love grow by her own nature.
— Forrest Curran, Purple Buddha Project: Purple Book of Self-Love
The law of attraction is synonymous to the law of sacrifice, in which you get in return what you are decisively choose to give up. The universe in all her infinity beauty generously opens up gates that you had no idea existed when you close others, but she requires you to walk through the gates solely on your own will and strength, with the other doors that you have left behind often times being forever locked and eternally inaccessible.
— Forrest Curran, Purple Buddha Project: Purple Book of Self-Love
Love was never meant to be contained solely in our hearts, just as life in a seed was always meant to break through into the world and become beauty to be shared.
— Forrest Curran, Purple Buddha Project: Purple Book of Self-Love
With the notion that we can open up our world by opening our minds, realize that home is the land that is least explored, and that adventure is a notion not determined by location, but is ultimately a state of mind.
— Forrest Curran
When we fail to tend to the fragilities of a flower as we become distracted by the noise of our minds, our plant is essentially dying. The quintessence of dying in the sense that we are failing to be mindful of the present moment, for life is the paradox of both living and dying concurrently. Just as we are living each moment, we are dying with every moment, and the essence of living is within each breath that ultimately comprises life as a whole.
— Forrest Curran
The universe and the law of attraction speak a language that knows no words, only discerning your intent through sacrifice and what you are willing to give up.
— Forrest Curran, Purple Buddha Project: Purple Book of Self-Love
The tallest and oldest trees that seemed to have just have casually always been there, hold the greatest love: as it nurtures love for others: providing shade for two lovers, becoming home for birds to build a nest, and giving food to the squirrels whom scurry upon it.
— Forrest Curran, Purple Buddha Project: Purple Book of Self-Love
The beauty of traveling is understood along the way rather than at the end of the journey, just as the purpose of marriage isn’t about becoming Mr. and Mrs.’s, but is about the love that is expressed on a daily basis between two lovers. A journey is not made up of the destinations that we arrive at, but is composed within every step and each breath we make.
— Forrest Curran
To commit to the present moment is to accept our inability to control the future and accept that many of our fears and reactions are just what they are, thoughts and emotions that are irrationally internalized. We will never be completely void of the temptations to look into the future when we are in the present; however, one must come to the understanding that by looking too far off into the future, we taint the future by creating an artificial expectation of what the future should hold, and are emotionally drained when it holds something else. Focus on the present, and you will come to have more control over the future naturally.
— Forrest Curran
Sometimes people come into our lives to make us a softer person, other times they come to teach us to let go, and occasionally the relationship wasn’t a lesson about the relationship ‘us’, but a lesson about the relationship you have with yourself.
— Forrest Curran, Purple Buddha Project: Purple Book of Self-Love
With maps and globes decorated around your room as a child and with passport and ticket in hand in the present, it is your world to explore. To travel is to ask for a complex mix of the new and the old, hellos and goodbyes, and sadness and happiness. Leave your shoes behind at home and to walk in the footsteps of others for a while.
— Forrest Curran
Morality and righteousness is based on intent, love, and in giving; yet, how is it that we as humans have come to view the act of sex with a different set of arbitrary laws? Specifically pigeonholed as an act between man and women, and with righteousness based on an unsystematic number of people we have slept with; as a civilization we have come to bind society with a set of laws largely advantageous to a specific sex, with the minority heavily antagonized and chastised. The universe knows not what sexual morality is, only what is right and wrong. The same principles that dictate morals also command the virtues of sex. Is it with the right intent? Is it based on love? Is it based on giving?
— Forrest Curran, Purple Buddha Project: Purple Book of Self-Love
There is a specific feeling that comes about during the dying embers of a relationship. Different from the Monday morning quarrels before work because you two are tired, different from the “I’m not going to talk to you for a while because I am mad at you” silences. Breaks ups happen instantly, yet the process occurs over a gradual period of time, with tear by tear until what was once whole, rips into two. Breakups are the disappointment we feel when we wanted our lover to finish the story with an exclamation mark, but instead are left with a question mark.
— Forrest Curran, Purple Buddha Project: Purple Book of Self-Love
Nobody thought it could be done, so nobody had tried before. Standing with one foot in the abyss and the other with a foothold in her dreams, she stood on the edge of a cliff. She took one look behind and with one last deep breath, she leapt with reckless certainty and decisive confidence. Blurring through the sky, for a moment she looked like she would fade into darkness, but in the very last moment when everyone else had given up on her, from her back spread wings. With a leap of faith, she learned to fly.
— Forrest Curran, Purple Buddha Project: Purple Book of Self-Love
Your life is your artwork and you are to paint life as a beautiful struggle. With your brush, paint the colors of joy in vibrant shades of red. Color the sky a baby blue, a color as free as your heart. With rich, earthy tones shade the valleys that run deep into the ground where heaven meets hell. Life is as chaotic as the color black, a blend of all colors, and this makes life a beautiful struggle. Be grateful for the green that makes up the beautiful canvas, for nature has given you everything that you need to be happy. Most of all, don’t ever feel the need to fill the entire canvas with paint, for the places left blank are the most honest expressions of who you are.
— Forrest Curran, Purple Buddha Project: Purple Book of Self-Love
Sure, the Leaning Tower of Pisa leaned like everyone else said it would, the mountains of Tibet were more beautiful than you had ever expected, and the Pyramids of Egypt stood mysteriously in the sea of sand like in the pictures; yet is it the environment or rather the openness in mindset, that makes up the elusive essence of happiness that we experience when we travel?
— Forrest Curran
Is the sunrise of Mount Fuji more beautiful from the one you see in the countryside a bit closer to home? Are the beaches of Indonesia really that much more serene than those we have in our own countries? The point I make is not to downplay the marvels of the world, but to highlight the notion of the human tendency in our failure to see the beauty in our daily lives when we take off the travel goggles when we are home. It is the preconceived notion of a place that creates the difference in perception of environments rather than the actual geological location.
— Forrest Curran
When we are in a foreign country we live with a fervor rooting from knowing that our days there are numbered, yet if the number of days in lives is numbered, are we not to live our everyday lives with that same zeal?
— Forrest Curran
Sacrifice is a terribly difficult thing to do, of which you will be asked to do many times along your path. Only with genuine love will you be able to make these sacrifices because often times you will simply want to refuse the sacrifices that the universe asks of you to make. When you close one door, another opens; that is how the universe works and through sacrifice we are given the keys to the next door in life.
— Forrest Curran, Purple Buddha Project: Purple Book of Self-Love
Although the future is indiscernible, we often feel the need to plan for what cannot be planned, and attempt to react to things that never happened. Our overemphasis in the future is a mere illusion, which often makes us foolishly blind to the beauty of the present moment, and is the root of creating the worst case scenarios and the what- if situations that plague the mind.
— Forrest Curran
Allowing both negative and positive thoughts to arise in life and acknowledging them for what they are, a secondary reaction within to what is happening outside, we grant our emotions free passage within without allowing external influences to impede our personal happiness. We cannot have control over everything that occurs in life, but that is simply not the goal, for we have control only over our relationship that we have with life.
— Forrest Curran
Whether between man and women, man and man, or woman and woman; look not towards any system that binds society created by man for guidance, but be guided by the principles of love. Love is the only law that commands this universe, and is the only language that is understood universally.
— Forrest Curran, Purple Buddha Project: Purple Book of Self-Love
The journey is made up of the most genuine and honest wonders of the mind, but also includes unfathomable sorrow and despair; yet, this is what makes up a journey as well as the human experience in entirety.
— Forrest Curran
Your value and self-worth is not found in your former lover, not in the loving words of they spoke, not in the gentle ways that they held you, not in the sweetness of their kiss; but found in the love that you have for yourself.
— Forrest Curran, Purple Buddha Project: Purple Book of Self-Love
Not basing your principles of sex based on the judgment of other or on hearsay, uphold yourself to virtues that you believe in. Before any laws created by man, religion, and culture; the universe has always held us under the principles of love in all endeavors in life, and this applies to sex as well. Sex is a very personal experience and the morals you follow under this act are a personal notion that you create yourself for the sake of your personal happiness.
— Forrest Curran, Purple Buddha Project: Purple Book of Self-Love
Our journey is our breath that makes up the seconds, the emotions that are in the minutes, and our purpose that make up the hours. Stay true to yourself in each moment, and remain vigilant to your purpose in every instant. Our journey begins with the first breath and thereby by every breath that follows.
— Forrest Curran
The drive, the ambition, the art; it all comes to me when I close my eyes and think about the sacrifices my Mom made for me.
— Forrest Curran, Purple Buddha Project: Purple Book of Self-Love
Tomorrow, today will be yesterday, and tomorrow will be today. By the nature of time when tomorrow will shift to become today, we demystify the notion that we are powerless in the face of the future, as the future will become the present moment naturally. On the basis that tomorrow will also eventually become yesterday, we can fundamentally note that time converges through yesterday, today, and tomorrow to where the essence of our very existence converges in the present moment.
— Forrest Curran
At times we will be asked to let go of things that we have always wanted to keep for ourselves, or things that we would never have thought that we would to have to let go of, such as the loss of a loved one or the betrayal of a dear friend. A tree never hesitates to shake off her leaves during fall, and so we must take another lesson given to us by the nature: let go when it is time. Although such losses can be difficult and painful, rise above this suffering. Focus within your mind, the image of the Lotus prospering above mud. We are the lotus; rise above.
— Forrest Curran, Purple Buddha Project: Purple Book of Self-Love
The Lotus in Buddhism is a sacred symbol that represents purity and resurrection as attributes that develop through a spiritual awakening of the self. With humble beginnings in swamplands, the Lotus flower exquisitely blooms, pure and untainted, from this murky world it thrives in. The Lotus flower represents a higher state of mind, a strong spirit cultivated far from the suffering and temptations of this muddied world that personifies beauty through the present moment.
— Forrest Curran, Purple Buddha Project: Purple Book of Self-Love
If you want to be free of the wars of the world, begin by resolving the wars within you. If you want to see the world at peace, create peace within your mind.
— Forrest Curran, Purple Buddha Project: Purple Book of Self-Love
Let the people talk, let people doubt, and letpeople question you, but never allow yourself to quit walking your path. Their path is their own and the path you walk is that of your own. Sweet child of mine, be the brave child of mine.
— Forrest Curran, Purple Buddha Project: Purple Book of Self-Love
Synchronize each breath with the present moment and become intertwined with happiness. Breathing in, we are grateful for the opportunities that are given to us; breathing out, we let go of the depression and anxiety that hold us back.
— Forrest Curran, Purple Buddha Project: Purple Book of Self-Love
Have no fear in the devil and acknowledge the insecurities, mistakes of the past, and disappointments that you have long failed to accept as new beginnings and see the child within you begin to heal.
— Forrest Curran
Plunging into the depths of hell, re-opening the gates to wounds and emotions that we have long tried to keep sealed and locked within, we discover that that the devil is not the Herculean ruler of darkness that we had imagined, but only a vulnerable and devastated child. With honesty and without judgment, we must muster the courage to meet this innocent child with whom we have come to label as the devil.
— Forrest Curran, Purple Buddha Project: Purple Book of Self-Love
Breathe in, breathe out. Without the fire, the phoenix never rises from the ashes. Let the fire scorch the skin and burn the soul, allowing yourself to absorb the pain and understand the sincerity of the pain. Breathe in, you are not the past, you are not the future; breathe out, you are simply each breath, the present moment. As you breathe in and breathe out, acknowledge all the trials you have overcome thus far, and that you can continue to overcome all else without doubt. Breathe in, breathe out.
— Forrest Curran, Purple Buddha Project: Purple Book of Self-Love
Hell is not a place, but a state of mind born from stress. Hell holds our insecurities, our fears, and it is ultimately the domicile of the devil within. The devil breathes and thrives in the fragment of our hearts that we dare not visit; yet, we can only make peace with ourselves by diving into the pits of hell and having an honest conversation with the devil himself.
— Forrest Curran, Purple Buddha Project: Purple Book of Self-Love
In life hard times will befall you that will create doubt in yourself, and life will ask questions of the authenticity of the person you are. Carrying the lotus means being true to yourself and in the realization that you were always meant to grow above this mud. We are meant to grow, progress, and evolve in this relentless environment of the World and through it all achieve happiness with grace in letting go. Carry the Lotus within; grow and rise above from the harsh and remorseless world beneath you.
— Forrest Curran, Purple Buddha Project: Purple Book of Self-Love
All is contained within the silence of death, the quietest and the loudest sound in the universe.
— Forrest Curran, Purple Buddha Project: Purple Book of Self-Love
Love is a seed that we diligently plant and requires tender care and watering in order for the tree to ever grow. Just as we cannot foresee the future and what is to become of this love later in life, the tree cannot tell what the weather will be like in the future. The strongest of winds and pouring rain may befall on the tree, however as long as the foundation and roots remains strong, love is able to exist.
— Forrest Curran, Purple Buddha Project: Purple Book of Self-Love
I didn’t know that the times we spent together on the weekends, the times that we laughed together, and the times you helped me out was your way of silently wishing me a beautiful goodbye.
— Forrest Curran, Purple Buddha Project: Purple Book of Self-Love
What initially began as a couple of pieces that fitted together from first dates, slowly expands with time and for a moment the puzzle actually looks like it will be realized. Heartbreak is when the puzzle is nearly finished and you suddenly realize that pieces are missing. Perhaps they were never in the box in the first place or perhaps they went missing along the way; regardless, the puzzle remains undone. You frantically search the box and your surroundings, desperately trying to find the missing pieces, anxiously looking to fill the void, but you search for what cannot be found.
— Forrest Curran, Purple Buddha Project: Purple Book of Self-Love
Freedom from stress, freedom from anxiety, freedom from depression; freedom is autonomy from all that stagnates growth in this ever complex and noisy world. By the fear of being in the unknown, we often overlook and forget the serene view of being on the raft: the glowing virgin stars, the gentle ways that the waves moves, and the endless possibilities that exist under the sun. The fundamental principle of freedom is to be lost and our state of mind never differs too far from this analogy of being stranded in the middle of the ocean.
— Forrest Curran, Purple Buddha Project: Purple Book of Self-Love
Breathe in, breathe out. All the blessings of the universe that we may overlook are contained in the entirety of a breath. Breathe in, breathe out. Each breath is the sun flowering our earth, fresh water filling our oceans, and the blue skies clearing our minds. Infinite emotions are contained within every breath, and by the breath we can always realize the beauty within it all. Breathe in, breathe out.
— Forrest Curran, Purple Buddha Project: Purple Book of Self-Love
Only in the moments of being alone in the darkness on the raft, will you have the space to speak, listen, and to act from the heart. Only in the moments of pain, do we begin to empathize with humankind. Only when you are lost, you will find new meaning. Float on.
— Forrest Curran, Purple Buddha Project: Purple Book of Self-Love
Do not desperately seek refuge in heaven and delve in blissful ignorance
—  discover the fires and infernos of hell that have sprung inside of you.
I wonder if the world’s fascination has less to do with the flower itself, and more with the muck that it flourishes in. The Lotus flower is of an unparalleled beauty in its elegance and grace, yet its’ origins are of an environment that is a stark contrast. We cannot help but ponder such strange juxtaposition. However, there is something telling in this natural contrast between the flower and its environment: we are meant to grow, like the Lotus, and not dirty our hands in the mud that surrounds us.
— Forrest Curran, Purple Buddha Project: Purple Book of Self-Love
Life was the gift that you were given the day you were born, and in turn you are the gift to life. Only in the moments of being alone in the darkness on the raft, will you have the space to speak, listen, and to act from the heart.
— Forrest Curran, Purple Buddha Project: Purple Book of Self-Love
By creating an image of low self- esteem within ourselves, we bomb and terrorize our true self. When we refuse to forgive, we create an insensible war from old grudges. When we allow stress to impede our healthy flow of energy, we create the weapon of destruction that kills humanity.
— Forrest Curran, Purple Buddha Project: Purple Book of Self-Love
Although at times you might want to detract from the path, realize that how you treat yourself becomes the foundation as to how you treat others; although we may want to resort to violence in words during conflict, understand that how you speak to others becomes the basis of how you speak to yourself; although we may want to give up; do not be fooled in the idea that ease and comfort is where your true path lies.
— Forrest Curran, Purple Buddha Project: Purple Book of Self-Love
Acknowledge and accept that there will be chaotic times while being on your raft from being lost in true freedom. Engulfed by darkness at sea, we are consumed by a great loneliness that has consistently existed even when people surrounded us, and that is when we must throw all that is heavy into the water, and float independently through to the present.
— Forrest Curran, Purple Buddha Project: Purple Book of Self-Love
Without the fear of occasional gaffes, the willingness to be perfectly imperfect, and the heart of a child who creates chaos first thing in the morning for a parent; you are not allowing our inner child to grow. You grow in pain, not in years, and you must cross the bridge without knowing of the pain, the tears, or the trials and tribulations that you will come to have to face, but sweet child of mine, stay the happy child of mine.
— Forrest Curran, Purple Buddha Project: Purple Book of Self-Love
With nowhere to go, we have everywhere else to go.
— Forrest Curran, Purple Buddha Project: Purple Book of Self-Love
Without waiting for others acknowledge your purpose, remaining balanced when things don’t work out, and uncompromising in your effort; realize that you have a piece of the universe for which she cannot exist without.
— Forrest Curran, Purple Buddha Project: Purple Book of Self-Love
Wisdom comes from not only in the understanding that often times we say no to things too easily and quickly, but also in knowing that that ‘no’ for the sake of your physical and mental wellbeing can also be a reasonable and grounded decision for which you shouldn’t feel the need to feel guilty.
— Forrest Curran, Purple Buddha Project: Purple Book of Self-Love
Apples to oranges, the act of comparing your life to another’s is more like comparing an elephant to an apple, it makes no sense to compare someone’s life that you have no knowledge about to that of your own, of which in all earnest is not something that you completely understand yourself.
— Forrest Curran, Purple Buddha Project: Purple Book of Self-Love
Peace of Man"Greet each man with words of loveAnd peace,And a dove will be placedOn an olive tree.Leave a man with feelingsOf betrayalOr envy,And a dove gets shotOff the olive tree.Greet each man with peace,And leave each man with love.Ask yourself -One more enemy,Or one more dove?Always choose love.It's time for everybody toSpeak love.Let's fill the trees with doves,And spread the leaves of love.So,Always addAnd never subtractAnother peace of manFrom the olive tree.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
There is no place like the beach... where the land meets the sea and the sea meats the sky
— Umair Siddiqui
May every sunrise hold more promise and every sunset hold more peace...
— Umair Siddiqui
The problem is politics is made a sport, almost as much a sport as football or baseball. When it comes to politics, adults and politicians do more finger-pointing and play more games than children ever do. Too often are we rooting for the pride of a team rather than the good of the nation.
— Criss Jami, Healology
The beautiful affair of sun, sky and the sea brings a perfect moment of love, peace and joy
— Umair Siddiqui
Peace is not about who you can live with, but who you can't live without.
— Shannon L. Alder
It must be remembered that a vast majority of mankind’s history has been spent living under the rule of tyrants and authoritarians. The ideas of Liberty are very new when you consider the big picture. By contrast, various forms of socialism and fascism have been adopted over and over again. Be wary of those who try to present these old and tired ideas as something new and exciting. Liberty and free markets are the way forward if we truly desire peace and prosperity.
— Ron Paul
If we stood close to each other, side by side, as true brothers and sisters, then evil would not know how to stand between us.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
But let’s not forget the Jew. Anybody that gives even a just criticism of the Jew is instantly labeled anti-Semite. The Jew cries louder than anybody else if anybody criticizes him. You can tell the truth about any minority in America, but make a true observation about the Jew, and if it doesn’t 't pat him on the back, then he uses his grip on the news media to label you anti-Semite.
— Malcolm X
The world is no longer white, black, yellow and brown. Through love, tribes have been intermixing colors to reveal a new rainbow world. And as more time passes, this racial and cultural blending will make it harder for humans to side with one race, nation or religion over another.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Segregation is a word of the past. Unity is the key to a peaceful future.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
To find the peace you never had you will need to do the one fearful thing that you have never done.
— Shannon L. Alder
Human complexity can be conquered with calmness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
You can conquer any aggressive action, with restraint and patient.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Time after time, they brought each other to new heights of ecstasy, until finally, they lay spent in each others arms in the quiet peace and contentment that only lovers know.
— Alan Kinross, Longinus The Vampire: Babylon
When we are anxious about what is going to happen next, we are not staying in our now!
— Evinda Lepins
Compassion is an act of love.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
We must give each other the chance to change.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
You ought to welcome troubled-souls with your peaceful-spirit.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
You act in love to be kind, be gentle and be peaceful.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
A smile is a light within you being turned on, it can illuminate the path for you and others.
— Gillian Duce
If a country successfully translate the principles of truth and honesty into their social life, then that country experiences peace, tranquillity and serenity.
— Sunday Adelaja
Never allow evil to conquer you. But overcome evil with good deeds.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Mankind is one human family.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Peaceful co-existence is the heart of humanity.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
We are one family.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
There are few things more powerful than people united. What they unite over is not what matters. ... The most important aspect is remembering our existing connection, and, through that, allowing ourselves to feel at peace.
— Vironika Tugaleva, The Love Mindset
You ought to welcome troubled-souls with your peaceful-spirits.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
You are a valuable instrument in the orchestration of your own world, and the overall harmony of the universe. Always be in command of your music. Only you can control and shape its tone. If life throws you a few bad notes or vibrations, don't let them interrupt or alter your song.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Retain your peace by refusing to respond to rude, judgemental, or prying people. They won't understand anyway.
— Manprit Kaur
Speaking a painful truth should be done only in love - like wielding a sword with no hilt - it should pain oneself in direct proportion to the amount of force exerted.
— Criss Jami, Healology
Be wary of any man who is quick to put down another man's faith. His love for Truth is not deep enough for him to want to explore additional truths outside his borders. The language of light can only be decoded by the heart. Thus, a man with a closed heart is already blind to understand the words of his own faith.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
I’m quietly sipping my coffee,sitting on the deck,settled in to my little jungle of herbs and buzzing bees,letting my thoughts wander, soaked in the warmth of the rising sun.Breathing in and out the soft air filling the moment with fluids of peace.
— Anna Asche
You never know what people live through. Be kind to all people.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
We sleep soundly in our beds, because rough men stand ready in the night to do violence on those who would harm us"Orwell cited Kipling's phrase "making mock of uniforms that guard you while you sleep" (Kipling, Tommy), and further noted that Kipling's "grasp of function, of who protects whom, is very sound. He sees clearly that men can be highly civilized only while other men, inevitably less civilized, are there to guard and feed them." (1942)
— George Orwell