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Do you want to be safe from the influence, ways, and lusts of the world and the flesh (I John 2:16)? From the sins which so easily entangles us (Hebrews 12:1)? Then delight in yourself in the Lord, in His provision, in His Word. Faithfully feed on the things that possess true substance and real meaning. When you remember that "all Scripture is given by inspiration by God and is profitable" (2 Timothy 3:16) and partake of such divine substance, then you are fed, you are led and you are safe!
— Elizabeth George, Quiet Confidence for a Woman's Heart
As we live our truths, we will communicate across all barriers, speaking for the sources of peace. Peace that is not lack of war, but fierce and positive.
— Muriel Rukeyser
There's a man who is my brother,I just don't know his name,But I know his home and family,Because I know we feel the same,And it hurts me when he's hungry,Or when his children cry,I too am a father,That little one is mineIt's about time we begin it,To turn the world around,It's about time we start to make it,The dream we've always known,It's about time we start to live it,The family of man,It's about time, It's about changes, And it's about time,It's about you and me together,And it's about time
— John Denver
Build bridges, not walls.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
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.
— Elizabeth George, Quiet Confidence for a Woman's Heart
We live in the post-trash, man. It'll be a real short eon. Down in the ectoplasmic circuitry where humanity's leaders are all linked up unconsciously with each other and with the masses, man, there's been this unanimous worldwide decision to trash the planet and get on to a new one.
— Denis Johnson, Tree of Smoke
We got a fightin' side a mile wide, but we pray for peace 'cause it's mostly us that end up servin' overseas.
— Josh Thompson
It is only in solitude that I ever find my own core.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Against Wind and Tide: Letters and Journals, 1947-1986
Everything I've read about Christians in prison for their non-violent witness to Christ rings true. Whether it's St. Paul, St. Edmund Campion, Dorothy Day or Dr. King, the experience remains the same: God comes close to those in prison. God's spirit is unleashed on the person who suffers imprisonment in a spirit of obedient love. God is a God of prisoners, a God of the poor, a God of the oppressed--but most of all, as the life of Jesus testifies, a God of nonviolent resisters. God is a God of nonviolence and peace.
— John Dear
I believe that love and peace are the right way to confront tyranny.
— Nihad Sirees, The Silence and the Roar
Michael wasn't on the pool deck, which was hard for me. None of my old Coral Springs teammates were around. Still, that old plane of cement felt like home. I folded my clothes and put them on the bench. I placed my water bottle under my starting block, and I dove in. Once again, I felt that ultimate state of transition, my feet no longer on the ground, my hands not yet in the water.
— Dara Torres, Age Is Just a Number: Achieve Your Dreams at Any Stage in Your Life
I am a man of peace [so he told Mother, but it always appeared to me that he was the most belligerent man of peace I had ever encountered]
— Howard Fast, April Morning
If you want inner peace, find it in solitude, not speed, and if you would find yourself, look to the land from which you came and to which you go.
— Stewart L. Udall, The Quiet Crisis And The Next Generation
We are all born and someday we’ll all die. Most likely to some degree alone.What if our aloneness isn’t a tragedy? What if our aloneness is what allows us to speak the truth without being afraid? What if our aloneness is what allows us to adventure – to experience the world as a dynamic presence – as a changeable, interactive thing?If I lived in Bosnia or Rwanda or who knows where else, needless death wouldn’t be a distant symbol to me, it wouldn’t be a metaphor, it would be a reality.And I have no right to this metaphor. But I use it to console myself. To give a fraction of meaning to something enormous and needless.This realization. This realization that I will live my life in this world where I have privileges.I can’t cool boiling waters in Russia. I can’t be Picasso. I can’t be Jesus. I can’t save the planet single-handedly.I can wash dishes.
— Rachel Corrie
Mindfulness meditation doesn't change life. Life remains as fragile and unpredictable as ever. Meditation changes the heart's capacity to accept life as it is. It teaches the heart to be more accommodating, not by beating it into submission, but by making it clear that accommodation is a gratifying choice.
— Sylvia Boorstein, Don't Just Do Something, Sit There: A Mindfulness Retreat with Sylvia Boorstein
Instead of engaging in cutthroat competition, we should strive to create value. In economic terms, this means a transition from a consumer economy - the mad rush for ownership and consumption - to a constructive economy where all human beings can participate in the act of creating lasting worth.
— Daisaku Ikeda, For the Sake of Peace: A Buddhist Perspective for the 21st Century
If you do not know how to take care of yourself, and the violence in you, then you will not be able to take care of others. You must have love and patience before you can truly listen to your partner or child. If you are irritated you cannot listen. You have to know how to breath mindfully, embrace your irritation and transform it. Offer ONLY understand and compassion to your partner or child - This is the true practice of love. 
— Thich Nhat Hanh, Creating True Peace: Ending Violence in Yourself, Your Family, Your Community, and the World
Violence is not the answer, it doesn’t work any more. We are at the end of the worst century in which the greatest atrocities in the history of the world have occurred... The nature of human beings must change. We must cultivate love and compassion.
— Martin Scorsese
It turns out that the men who ultimately, who unpretentiously value peace are willing to sacrifice their own peace of mind in order to render it. The question is, 'Who, between opposing forces, would do such a thing?' It seems only theoretical albeit true that men who accept an objective rather than subjective moral standard are, in a general sense, more capable of making such sacrifices for the sake of peace.
— Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality
We cannot justify treating any sentient nonhuman as our property, as a resource, as a thing that we an use and kill for our purposes.
— Gary L. Francione
Repression by brute force is always a confession of the inability to make use of the better weapons of the intellect—better because they alone give promise of final success.
— Ludwig von Mises, Liberalism
I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of the way and let them have it.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Your happiness depends on people around you and people you love, but peace of mind you alone can cultivate. Never loose your peace of mind even when unhappy.
— bajju
There comes a time for everybody when words and reasons can become such a great weariness.
— Christopher Pike, Sati
Peace is more of an internal settlement rather than what is visible on the external.
— Criss Jami, Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile
All matters being spiritual
—  man or woman can only find peace when peace is realized from within.
Do not expect peace with the enemy whose worth you do not recognize.
— Sorin Cerin, Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom
Well, if that’s what you call being at peace, for heaven’s sake just warn me before you go to war, will you?
— Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt
Why, I've been all over the world, I tell you, and fairly loafed and lolled in every conceivable sort of ease and luxury, but the Soul of me—the wild, restless, breathless, discontented soul of me—never sat down before in all its life—I say, until my frightened hand cuddled into his broken one. I tell you I don't pretend to explain it, I don't pretend to account for it; all I know is—that smothering there under all that horrible wreckage and everything—the instant my hand went home to his, the most absolute sense of serenity and contentment went over me.
— Eleanor Hallowell Abbott, The Indiscreet Letter
By prolonged and continued fellowship, the sheep who follow nearby enjoy the shepherd's presence and become his familiar companions. To those closest to him, he shares the choicest portions of the food he's gathered. These happy and content sheep are never in danger. Why? Because they are near the shepherd!
— Elizabeth George, Quiet Confidence for a Woman's Heart
Perhaps this was the secret to being at peace: want nothing but what is given to you.
— Amy Waldman, The Submission
Eternal peace is hell for the adventurers.
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
The ocean, the desert, and the jungle are the last strongholds and resorts of peace. ("Fear")
— P.C. Wren
Peace obtained with conflicts management.
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
There is no peace without power.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
But blaming Islam is a simple answer, easier and less controversial than re-examining the core political issues and grievances that resonate in much of the Muslim world: the failures of many Muslim governments and societies, some aspects of U.S. foreign policy representing intervention and dominance, Western support for authoritarian regimes, the invasion and occupation of Iraq, or support for Israel's military battles with Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon. (p. 136-137)
— John L. Esposito, Who Speaks For Islam?: What a Billion Muslims Really Think
We are against war and the sources of war. We are for poetry and the sources of poetry.
— Muriel Rukeyser, The Life of Poetry
Why do we need money beyond a point? If we are free of ill health, enmity, and debt, is that not enough? Too much money only leads to less peace.
— Tirumalai Krishnamacharya
You are the stories and incidents that you never tell to anyone. You are the thoughts that you get while standing under theshower. You are those memories that won't lets you sleep at night peacefully. You are those words that you will never say while speaking with someone. You are those scars that you always hide from everyone. You are those little secrets that you will never let the world know. You are everything that you hide under the identity that you call the real you.
— Akshay Vasu
The all-victorious Christ is like a great rock in a weary land, to whose shelter we may flee in every time of sorrow or trial, finding quiet refuge and peace in him.
— J.R.    Miller
Critical to the fight against global terrorism is an ability to move beyond presuppositions and stereotypes in our attitudes and policies and to form partnerships that transcend an "us" and "them" view of the world. (p. 135)
— John L. Esposito
I don't just want to ban The Bomb. I want to ban all bombs, whatever, and all bombers, whoever, and all bombings, whyever. There have to be better ways of saying no and making changes.
— Aidan Chambers, Nik: Now I Know
I wanted to shut my mind, that my thoughts might closeon my own peace, I wanted to closethe peace of my love in my heartlike dew in a dark rose."From "Philip Speaks
— Caryll Houselander, The Flowering Tree
When we pillow our heads at night, we need to have things that give us peace. Many such things are available, but one of the best is the simple peace of knowing that we've done things that day that were not easy for us to do. If we can see ourselves as people who are learning little by little to master the hard parts of life, we will live with a greater confidence and be able to serve those around us more helpfully. The ancient adage is true which tells us, "A ship in the harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.
— Gary Henry
Live simply so others may simply live
— Mahatma Gandhi, Peace: The Words and Inspiration of Mahatma Gandhi
Greet each man with peace, and leave each man with love. Ask yourself - One more enemy, or one more dove?
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
But the Egotist is stuck somewhere between his hidden triad of pride, fear, and insecurity; he is forever fighting to prove himself, instigating battles the Humbleman has unwittingly conquered, already sealed some time ago. Yes, the day he finally accepts face-to-face such an irony as humility - the irony that humility is indeed the mother of giants, that great men, having life so large, as needed, can afford to appear small - the world will then know peace.
— Criss Jami
Since nothing is absolute There is no absolute silence, Only an appearance Of temporary peace.
— Dejan Stojanovic
We work for peace every time we exercise authority with wisdom and authentic love.
— Jean Vanier, Finding Peace
Peace is the respect for the rights of the other person.
— Gioconda Belli, The Inhabited Woman
As things are now going, the peace we will make, the peace we seem to be making, will be a peace of oil, a peace of gold, a peace of shipping, a peace, in brief... without moral purpose or human interest.
— Archibald MacLeish
To be a dwarf in peace is more honourable than to be a giant in war!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Peace comes to those who let others live in peace.
— Indira Mukherjee
[The modern age] knows nothing about isolation and nothing about silence. In our quietest and loneliest hour the automatic ice-maker in the refrigerator will cluck and drop an ice cube, the automatic dishwasher will sigh through its changes, a plane will drone over, the nearest freeway will vibrate the air. Red and white lights will pass in the sky, lights will shine along highways and glance off windows. There is always a radio that can be turned to some all-night station, or a television set to turn artificial moonlight into the flickering images of the late show. We can put on a turntable whatever consolation we most respond to, Mozart or Copland or the Grateful Dead.
— Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose
The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.
— Ruth Benedict
As soon as you stop making everyone else responsible for your happiness, the happier you’ll be.
— Nina Guilbeau
I'm really a peaceful sort of coward.
— L.A. Meyer
The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace.
— Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism
For a few moments, attune your mind to the idea of harmony and peaceful coexistence flowing among all peoples and nations.The source of this idea is deep within your heart.As you calmly breathe in and out, picture it radiating from you like a fine, colored vapor gradually covering the face of the earth.See it enter the hearts of everyone, especially those stuck in the mad zones.Feel it circulate everywhere until it comes all the way round and back to you.This is love in action.The source of this love is the Tao.Savor this.
— Stephen Russell, Barefoot Doctor's Guide to the Tao: A Spiritual Handbook for the Urban Warrior
Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast,Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round,And, while the bubbling and loud hissing urnThrows up a steamy column and the cupsThat cheer but not inebriate, wait on each,So let us welcome peaceful ev'ning in.
— William Cowper, The Complete Poetical Works of William Cowper
It partook ... of eternity ... there is a coherence in things, a stability; something, she meant, is immune from change, and shines out (she glanced at the window with its ripple of reflected lights) in the face of the flowing, the fleeting, the spectral, like a ruby; so that again tonight she had the feeling she had had once today, already, of peace, of rest. Of such moments, she thought, the thing is made that endures.
— Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
The most important step in developing skillful speech is to think before speaking.
— Allan Lokos, Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living
Suspense left my life a long time ago, now it has returned. I do not care for it.
— Ben Marcus, The Flame Alphabet
[Y]ou were too alert to the figurative possibilities of words not to see the phrase [angle of repose] as descriptive of human as well as detrital rest. As you said, it was too good for mere dirt; you tried to apply it to your own wandering and uneasy life ... I wonder if you ever reached it.
— Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose
The brainless serenity of charwomen and janitors working late at night came over us. In a messy world we were at least making our little corner clean.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Cat's Cradle
She looked from the hilt protruding between her breasts into the eyes of the boy she loved. The golden light in them enfolded her and her heart stopped beating, leaving the ghost of her smile on her mouth. Her vacant eyes mirrored something infinitely close to peace.
— Farrah Naseem
We should not be surprised that more and more people feel comfortable about consuming animal products. After all, they are being assured by the “experts” that suffering is being decreased and they can buy “happy” meat, “free-range” eggs, etc.. These products even come with labels approved of by animal organizations. The animal welfare movement is actually encouraging the “compassionate” consumption of animal products.Animal welfare reforms do very little to increase the protection given to animal interests because of the economics involved: animals are property. They are things that have no intrinsic or moral value. This means that welfare standards, whether for animals used as foods, in experiments, or for any other purpose, will be low and linked to the level of welfare needed to exploit the animal in an economically efficient way for the particular purpose. Put simply, we generally protect animal interests only to the extent we get an economic benefit from doing so. The concept of “unnecessary” suffering is understood as that level of suffering that will frustrate the particular use. And that can be a great deal of suffering.Killing Animals and Making Animals Suffer | Animal Rights: The Abolitionist Approach
— Gary L. Francione
Through the heartfelt mercies of our God,  God's Sunrise will break in upon us,  Shining on those in the darkness,  those sitting in the shadow of death,  Then showing us the way, one foot at a time,  down the path of peace.
— Anonymous
You [demagogues] are like the fishers for eels; in still waters they catch nothing, but if they thoroughly stir up the slime, their fishing is good; in the same way it's only in troublous times that you line your pockets.
— Aristophanes, The Knights
Peace be upon you, for you have persevered! How excellent, then, this fulfilment in the hereafter!
— Anonymous, The Qur'an / القرآن الكريم
The bottom line is this: Peace will come to Israel and the Middle East only when the Israeli government is willing to comply with international law, with the Roadmap for Peace, with official American policy, with the wishes of a majority of its own citizens--and honor its own previous commitments--by accepting its legal borders. All Arab neighbors must pledge to honor Israel's right to live in peace under these conditions. The United States is squandering international prestige and goodwill and intensifying global anti-American terrorism by unofficially condoning or abetting the Israeli confiscation and colonization of Palestinian territories.
— Jimmy Carter, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid
Great compassion makes a peaceful heart. A peaceful heart makes a peaceful person. A peaceful person makes a peaceful family. A peaceful family makes a peaceful community. A peaceful community makes a peaceful nation. A peaceful nation makes a peaceful world.
— Maha Ghosananda
As participants in a mobile culture, our default is to move. God embraces our broken world, and I have no doubt that God can use our movement for good. But I am convinced that we lose something essential to our existence as creatures if we do not recognize our fundamental need for stability. Trees can be transplanted, often with magnificent results. But their default is to stay.
— Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, The Wisdom of Stability: Rooting Faith in a Mobile Culture
Why had peace given place so soon to turmoil? To two separate solitudes? Because peace had been without thought? Without...integrity?How could she have felt like that without love?Was love essential?Did it even exist - the love she had dreamed of her life?If it did, it was too late now for her to find it.Must she make do with this instead, then?Only this?Pleasure without love?
— Mary Balogh, Then Comes Seduction
Of one thing we may be sure, we can never escape the external stimuli that cause vexation. The world is full of them, and though we were to retreat to a cave and live the remainder of our days alone, we still could not lose them. The rough floor of the cave would chafe us, the weather would irritate us and the very silence would cause us to fret
— A.W. Tozer
Good literature is one key to peace. When we stop reading each other, when we stop paying attention to each other's words and stories, we too easily oppose one another.
— Dave DiGrazie
By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home.
— Sharon Salzberg, Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness
Surely your longings and feelings arise from the God who created you. They were created in order to be filled, not crushed. Surely we shall find peace not by eliminating desire, but by finding its fulfillment and satisfaction in the One who created it.
— Sundar Singh
Sex was the first dove.
— Parker Tyler, Screening The Sexes
We're all latchkey kids a threshold from peace.
— S. Kelley Harrell
If the true God is not allowed to lead our lives society will continue to immerse itself into bad decision, poor planning and selfishness on all levels. This will lead to a world-wide revolution that will fuel more meaningless wars, injustice, horrific crimes, lost of life and what really matters the most, hope for the future. A love that could warms hearts. A trust that would never betray a brother or a friend. A peace that the world has never seen.
— Delaine Robins
We are thankful to come here for rest, sir," said Jenny. "You see, you don't know what the rest of this place is to us; does he, Lizzie? It's the quiet, and the air.""The quiet!" repeated Fledgeby, with a contemptuous turn of his head towards the City's roar. "And the air!" with a "Poof!" at the smoke."Ah!" said Jenny. "But it's so high. And you see the clouds rushing on above the narrow streets, not minding them, and you see the golden arrows pointing at the mountains in the sky from which the wind comes, and you feel as if you were dead."The little creature looked above her, holding up her slight transparent hand."How do you feel when you are dead?" asked Fledgeby, much perplexed."Oh, so tranquil!" cried the little creature, smiling. "Oh, so peaceful and so thankful! And you hear the people who are alive, crying, and working, and calling to one another down in the close dark streets, and you seem to pity them so! And such a chain has fallen from you, and such a strange good sorrowful happiness comes upon you!"Her eyes fell on the old man, who, with his hands folded, quietly looked on."Why it was only just now," said the little creature, pointing at him, "that I fancied I saw him come out of his grave! He toiled out at that low door so bent and worn, and then he took his breath and stood upright, and looked all round him at the sky, and the wind blew upon him, and his life down in the dark was over!—Till he was called back to life," she added, looking round at Fledgeby with that lower look of sharpness. "Why did you call him back?""He was long enough coming, anyhow," grumbled Fledgeby."But you are not dead, you know," said Jenny Wren. "Get down to life!"Mr Fledgeby seemed to think it rather a good suggestion, and with a nod turned round. As Riah followed to attend him down the stairs, the little creature called out to the Jew in a silvery tone, "Don't be long gone. Come back, and be dead!" And still as they went down they heard the little sweet voice, more and more faintly, half calling and half singing, "Come back and be dead, Come back and be dead!
— Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend
First, people should open their eyes to see structural sin, which is the very existence of a First and Third World. As long as there's a First World, there won't be peace because there won't be justice or sharing. (Pedro Casaldaliga, p. 243)
— Mev Puleo, The Struggle Is One: Voices and Visions of Liberation
As we send our armsmen and sailors away to fight and die together; let there be peace between us. If there cannot be peace in the world, at least let it be welcome here.
— Daniel Abraham, The Price of Spring
...because it is the privilige and the curse of midnight's children to be both masters and victims of their times, to forsake privacy and be sucked into the annihilating whirlpool of the multitudes, and to be unable to live or die in peace.
— Salman Rushdie
If everyone saw himself as a citizen of the world rather than of his town, city or country, the world would be a more peaceful, better place where success in all forms is abundant and available to all.
— Jim Rogers, A Gift to My Children: A Father's Lessons for Life and Investing
When an invincible weapon deals with an impenetrable defense,war is useless. The wisest decision is to ceasefire and do synergy.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace.
— Swami Brahmananda
Change nothing, just be yourself to experience peace.
— Tapan Ghosh, Faceless The Only Way Out
Traditionally we associate power with the display of strength, winning, and having lots of money and prestige. I think we have power mixed up with the domination of others. It's time to redefine power. To have inner peace and spread that peace throughout the world, THAT is power.
— Yasmin Davar, Our Peaceful Planet: Healing Ourselves and Our World for a Sustainable Future
I am worn out with civility. I have been talking incessantly all night, and with nothing to say. But with you there may be peace. You will not want to be talked to. Let us have the luxury of silence.
— Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
The world is over-armed and peace is underfunded.
— Ban Ki-Moon
War is a pleasant name of Mass Murder
— Haritha Velpureddy
The idea so commonly found that scepticism leads to toleration arises from considering the effects of scepticism in the intellectual who takes no active part - not its effects in the man of action. In the man of action, moral relativism and scepticism as to the absolute and universal value of his priunciples are no obstacle to a fanatical belief in their immediate value as his own clan at the actual moment; they do not weaken in the least his will to impose his principles. How should he glimpse a soul of truth in the principles of others, entitling them to respect, when he does not believe in noble origins of this kind even for his own principles?
— Bertrand De Jouvenel, Sovereignty
You see every day of life as a bonus once you have inner peace.
— Steven Magee
In your quest for peace within, you follow several paths. Over a period of time, the path which is meant for you shows up just like the opening up of petals of a bud. Tread on it and make the world more beautiful!
— Neelam Saxena Chandra
You are your own sanctuary. Peace always comes from within. Find the things, the thoughts, and perspectives that allow you to cultivate peace within yourself. If you find your spirit disturbed, pull yourself back. Learn yourself. Learn how to manipulate and control your emotional state. Allow yourself to feel all your emotions, but with control, being able to choose when and where. Love yourself enough to create a safe haven of peace within yourself that you can then carry into any situation, into any storm.
— Akiroq Brost
Being hypnotized by content is a disease.
— Bert McCoy
Know, accept and make peace with you own self to live soulfully.
— Latika Teotia
Any coward can be a peacekeeper! In fact, that comes to one naturally. But they are blessed, the peacemakers...and all those who know the difference.
— Criss Jami
Ignorance is in each cell of our body and our consciousness. It's like a drop of ink diffused in a glass of water.
— Thich Nhat Hanh, Reconciliation: Healing the Inner Child
Give yourself peace of mind. Sleep well, eat well, and laugh well every day. Let your needs be met in positive and healthy ways that allow your mind to rest. You deserve to feel well. Make your wellness a priority over everything else. If your foundation of life, your wellness, is weak you will find that all other levels in your life are weak as well. Everything in your life depends on how you feel. Prioritize your wellness.
— Avina Celeste
. We are guided by outcomes, not ideology. We have a policy of principled realism, rooted in shared goals, interests, and values. That realism forces us to confront a question facing every leader and nation in this room. It is a question we cannot escape or avoid. We will slide down the path of complacency, numb to the challenges, threats, and even wars that we face. Or do we have enough strength and pride to confront those dangers today, so that our citizens can enjoy peace and prosperity tomorrow?
— Donald J. Trump
Autumn
—  Your hand becomes more tenderAnd your mouth breathes peace on my lips - wonderful silence lies in our gestures.
Choices are never right or wrong. Perhaps, the choice you made was the best choice under the given set of circumstances and at a given point of time. However, the rigidity in not moving ahead certainly isn't good. Life is all about learning a few lessons, and then moving on to the next till you find that much desired peace and happiness!
— Neelam Saxena Chandra
-And what would you do if you lost a child?-I would think I was going to die, Elena said. But I wouldn't. I learned long ago that I must give up my child to the earth, to God, to the world, to death, to the possibility of death, to the possibility of disease, and in doing so I became at peace. Because I had let my child go. And in letting the child go, I became colder, more distant, and more at peace. But I still loved the child, don't be wrong. As you love your child. I am sorry.
— David Bergen, Stranger: A Novel
How wild it was, to let it be.
— T. S. Eliot
If you really want peace in any world you have to learn to say nothing.
— Anne Rice, Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis
Hug one another with a holy kiss.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
It is better to act right than seek right.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Thinking well of others, praying for them may or may not change them, but you will, for sure, experience peace and love.
— Latika Teotia
Better to live with peace and not stress over the things which we can’t handle .
— Latika Teotia
Life has many ups and downs; some of the things may happen according to your wishes, but there are other things which just take away your peace. If you start fretting and fuming over the ones that go wrong and hang on to those memories, then, believe me life is going to be one long whine. Learn to ignore and you will find peace.As people grow older a certain amount of rigidity sets in not only in various parts of their bodies but in their mind sets as well. Very small deviations are enough to trigger strong reactions. Very often people start interfering in the lives of others; they should slow down and stopped interfering - especially in the lives of their children. They must invest their energies in something productive which will also give them peace. They must learn to ignore if they want to find true happiness.
— Latika Teotia
Oh my dear! Peace is something we all create together! No one person gets to take credit for it! That's the whole point! Each person matters equally. Every heart radiates a center of joy. In this way we learn to care for our world by understanding our responsibility to one another and to ourselves!
— Ron Regé Jr., The Awake Field
The flowering chocolate drink is foaming,Tobacco flowers are passed round,If my heart tastes them,I will be intoxicated…Listen, I am alone and tormented,May I not go to the place of the fleshless…Alone I must go, my own self shall become lost…I will go alone,My heart covered with flowers…Thus let it be,But let it be without violence!
— Tlaltecatzin
Today when you pray increase the circle of people you pray for and include even those who are unkind to you. It will make your vibrations more loving and you will be able to connect more. With every breath breathe in all the negativity, turn it into love as well as compassion and breathe out peaceful vibrations. Wish every living being well. When you are filled with love and compassion you always live a blissful life.
— Latika Teotia
Our objective is to transform fear into hope and courage, hatred into love and respect.
— Amit Ray, Peace on the Earth  A Nuclear Weapons Free World
If we can live well without causing unnecessary harm, why wouldn’t we?
— Gene Baur, Living the Farm Sanctuary Life: How to Eat Healthier, Live Longer, and Feel Better Every Day by Bringing Home the Happiest Place on Earth
As we examine the stars, they often feel too far out of reach, yet we aren’t able to deny the sense of being touched by them in an intimate way beyond description. Do you feel as I do? That as you set your sight intently upon a star, it gazes right back at you in acknowledgement of recognition of you as well. To set our sights upon the stars is a feeling of being at home. It is a sense of belonging to something greater than us, yet a kindred sense of ourselves.
— Mishi McCoy
If human society loses the value of justice, compassion, and honesty, the next generation will face greater difficulties and more suffering.
— Auliq-Ice
The price of stability is unpreparedness.
— Anthony  Ryan, Queen of Fire
We all want to feel peace, and it is always available to us when we can let go of past hurts, hope for future successes, and be grateful for the moment we are living now.
— Jason T. Rogers
There are moments of heartache and heartbreak, that we wonder how we did not drop dead in our pain. Perhaps, it is in the gift of shock that we, slowly in the midst of adversity, find acceptance and discover our peace of knowing and growing in the experience... We can remind each other that what did not kill us, but felt like it should have, will strengthen us to live our lives to it’s fullest. That faint whisper within each one of us, that knowing, if we will but listen, is continually reminding us that our hearts truly can go on.
— Mishi McCoy, The Lovely Knowing
We shouldn’t deny ourselves the joyful, peaceful delight in continuing to look up at the glorious, starlit sky. One simply cannot deny its beauty; but I insist that, as you do, remember that you too are a star, a supernova. You emit a magnificent intensity of your own. Not only can you look up, you can look within and be astonished at the glory and splendor of your own being.You shine with your own light. Let it shine! Let it shine! Let it shine!
— Mishi McCoy
You know,They don't care how kind, honest, helpful and good person i am. As long as i don't believe what they believe, they will hate me, do means , try to hurt me and if they can , will do their best to kill me. And you know what is strange? When they did those horrible things and killed me after they Will say God is Great. And more strange and worse is when they say Islam is peace.
— Arash Tabish
Real, true and unshakable peace comes from above. With such peace, you sleep soundly even in the midst of storm. With such peace, you smile and praise God even when you are in chains, for you get a very good understanding and conviction that the author of the peace is able to do all things exceedingly beyond understanding!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
A rainbow must have its seven colours in order for it to meet beauty. Plurality is beauty and harmony is what adds more lifespan to that beauty
— Leonard Ondigo, Just Scream: Inspirational Nuggets of Wisdom and Hope
Always be good to yourself and others. Always do what is right even if doing something wrong is quicker, more rewarding or easier. Always put truth in your every word and action, and never ignore your conscience until you die.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Most likely, your issue, is that NO ONE has REALLY been there for YOU in YOUR life.
— Reuben Berger
There is peace in play.
— David Paul Kirkpatrick
In a world where you can be anything, be kind.
— Unknown
It is better to be gentle than rude.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
You are the gatekeeper to your life and your home. You get to decide who or what comes in and what needs to stay out. If it doesn't contribute to the peaceful home you are now trying to have, then it should stay out.
— Jen Grice, You Can Survive Divorce: Hope, Healing, and Encouragement for Your Journey
Let us hope that life grant an opportunity to those miserable who live in the golden palaces to taste the infinite peace of a wooden cottage in the countryside and so their misery ends!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Seek peace.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Odo said it all her life. 'Only peace brings peace, only just acts bring justice!
— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed
We all want to live a happy life, so we have to learn to live together in trust and mutual respect.
— Auliq-Ice
I have a dream to make this world a better place to live for our unborn generations and that dream will come true through silent revolution - the revolution of positive actions and positive vibrations. Be a part of that revolution.
— Amit Ray, Peace on the Earth  A Nuclear Weapons Free World
My way is the way of silent revolution
—  revolution to raise the human consciousness through positive vibrations.
If you don't have a rainbow to give. Give a smile. It works just the same.
— Anthony T. Hincks
A person must make peace with oneself before they will find peace with the world.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
The immediate result of your infinite patience is peace
— Wayne Dyer
Living in peace has transformative power!
— Germany Kent
If we pray, we shall have peace,
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Always keep a pray for a pure heart, there lies your peace.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Peace of being makes the soul prosper.
— Lailah Gfty Akita
Tears sting my eyes once more, building up and rolling over my cheeks with the heat of a dying star. Isn’t that what death is? It’s forgetting. It’s letting go. We make peace with the dead to say goodbye.
— Ryan Galloway, Biome
We hear the world governments talking about peace but we know each government is busy secretly making weapons capable of destroying the entire planet.
— Paul Bamikole
I have heard it said that one loses a woman by loving her too much, that an affectation of coldness, from time to time, brings better results. And so on. I shall play no such tricks with you … Let love be truly love—that is, let it be peace—or let it not exist at all.
— Henry de Montherlant, Les jeunes filles
There is a morally flawed understanding of ‘peace.’ In much of the world (again, thanks to the left), peace has been so narrowly defined as to be morally irrelevant. It essentially means not having troops fighting in a foreign country. Thus, because the United States has troops fighting in Afghanistan and recently had troops fighting in Iraq, it is considered a ‘threat to peace.’ But Iran, with no troops on foreign soil, is not considered a threat to peace, even though it sustains terror movements, murders its own people, seeks to annihilate Israel, props up the mass murdering Syrian regime and is rapidly developing a nuclear weapon.
— Dennis Prager, Dennis Prager: Volume I
Through understanding, people will be able to see their similarities before differences.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Jesus came to bring life more abundantly. He came to save the soulsick, to deliver those bound up in sin, to break the chains of bondage and addiction. He came to heal the hurting, and comfort and restore the used, abused, bruised, battered, and broken. He came to forgive the worst sinner and to bring life to the lifeless. He came to reconcile us with God so we can have relationship with our Father.
— Teresa Schultz, The Bible In Poetry,
Let the sun shine on the darkness created by my Ignorance. One World One identity. peace, liberty, and justice for all.
— Mayur Ramgir
When face with any problem, do not panic, but pray. You find the peace to overcome pain.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
When face with any problem, do not panic, but pray. You will find the peace to overcome the pain.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
In one breath, I release all negative feelings and fearful thoughts, then fill up my lungs with wonder and awe and pure, unadulterated joy.
— Sara Baysinger, White Dawn
The peacemaker must have the strongest heart and the toughest will in the room.
— Nalini Singh, Silver Silence
Blessed are they who can carryA smile on their faceThey are ones who have foundInner peace in life’s mace
— Neelam Saxena Chandra
Blessed are the peacemakers:for they shall be called the children of God.
— Matthew, The Gospel According to Matthew
Feed your child ideas of peace, harmony and compassion but at the same time give them courage to defend their identity and dignity.
— Abhijit Naskar, Human Making is Our Mission: A Treatise on Parenting
If there is no love for others, love of country is just a slogan.
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
Being a dad is quite rewarding and even magical at times. It is our greatest chance to do something right in our lives that will keep making the world a brighter place even generations after we are gone.
— Timothy Pina, Bullying Ben: How Benjamin Franklin Overcame Bullying
WORLD WITHOUT PEACE IS NO WORLD AT ALL BUT WORLD WITH PEACE IS TRULY A BEAUTIFUL AND MOST ALIVE WORLD TO LIVE IN.
— Seema Brain Openers
True peace of mind is calm in your heart that you can’t explain.
— Ron Baratono
If you can't experience the humanity of people who don't look like you, you're not civilized enough to be an officer of the peace.
— Ann Medlock
I reiterate my dedication to advocating for effective preventive strategies to end gun violence once and for all. In the face of the rising tensions and the widespread proliferation of small arms and light weapons, we call on everyone to join us to build conditions that will make world peace more likely. We all know that the road to building peace goes through ending conflicts and silencing the guns.
— Widad Akreyi
Only the Prince of Peace gives peace.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
You want peace so badly and in the wanting of it there is no peace. Only when the wanting stops will you discover that peace has been there all along.
— Esther Veltheim, Who Am I?: The Seeker's Guide to Nowhere
My heart had melted into something akin to a sensation of happiness, peace of mind one might even say, at the realization that I had now reached the very bottom of agony.
— Dazai Osamu, Shayou
The real challenge of compassion, nonviolence and mindfulness is to love in adverse situation.
— Amit Ray, Walking the Path of Compassion
If you desire peace, begin to pray.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Peace is patient.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.
— Mother Teresa
The world needs the kind of religion that sets humanity free, not the kind that binds it with textual fanaticism. The world needs the kind of religion that humanizes the society, not the kind that dehumanizes it.
— Abhijit Naskar, Illusion of Religion: A Treatise on Religious Fundamentalism
Dear God, I ask that today and every day that follows you wash any anger from my heart. I desperately want to look at the world differently. Please help me understand that this anger is hurting me more than anyone else. Teach me to find love in every situation and then to find peace in my heart for the rest of my life. In Jesus’s name, amen.
— Ron Baratono
I dream, one day the consciousness of the countries will be so high that they will be ashamed to place military on the international borders. All international borders will be place for the tourist, gardeners and cultural celebration.
— Amit Ray, Peace on the Earth  A Nuclear Weapons Free World
Line of control should be a garden, a place of art and cultural festival.
— Amit Ray, Peace on the Earth  A Nuclear Weapons Free World
If it were but known that the combined might of the world was against aggression, the war-minded could only seek his salvation in peace, perceiving that further ostentatious preparations for war were idle.
— Eden Phillpotts, Saurus
Everyone has the power to make a difference, to themselves and others, and to our world.
— Yasmin Davar, Our Peaceful Planet: Healing Ourselves and Our World for a Sustainable Future
Peace is a very powerful approach than war, choose peace when solving any problem in the world.
— Gift Gugu Mona
Line of control must be renamed as garden of love and the barbed wire fencing should be replaced by the garden of flowers.
— Amit Ray, Peace on the Earth  A Nuclear Weapons Free World
Only in making peace - with ourselves, with others, and the world - will any of us find the life we are hoping for.
— Laurence Overmire
It doesn't matter, whether it is an x, y or z country, every penny spends for nuclear weapons strengthen the hands of the evil force.
— Amit Ray, Peace on the Earth  A Nuclear Weapons Free World
The job of the united nations is to grow more flowers on the earth.
— Amit Ray, Peace on the Earth  A Nuclear Weapons Free World
You need to keep hurting until you realise you never needed to hurt in the first place.
— Kamand Kojouri
My love, we can close our eyes but we cannot stop the sunrise.
— Kamand Kojouri
Listen, if you want peace you must learn to drink cha from an empty cup.
— James Clavell, Shōgun
Most of the institutions that come in to offer help after disaster don't have the resources to provide concrete help. . . . Donor communities invest billions funding peace talks and disarmament. Then they stop. The most important part of postwar help is missing: providing basic social services to people. Not having those resources might have been a reason men went to war in the first place; they crossed a border and joined an armed group because they didn't have jobs. In Liberia right now, there are hundreds of thousands of unemployed young people, and they're ready-made mercenaries for wars in West Africa. You'd think the international community would be sensible enough to know they should work to change this. But they aren't.
— Leymah Gbowee, Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War
Through comedy, we can touch core societal beliefs and transform them completely. I believe we can get to the truth of some deep societal ideologies, and begin to transform them into a new understanding. Far too many promote hateful ideologies, and we must do much more to bring our cultures together, in love and peace.
— Catherine Chen
People often ask me, what my religion is. I tell them, I am a Christian to the Christian, a Jew to the Jew, a Muslim to the Muslim, a Hindu to the Hindu, an atheist to the atheist, but the brightest nightmare to the fundamentalist.
— Abhijit Naskar
You have to make peace with the fact that you have the right to be here, not because you have what it takes, but because your existence was authorised by the heavens.
— D.S. Mashego
Instead of asking, “Why is there war?” we might ask, “Why is there peace?” We can obsess not just over what we have been doing wrong but also over what we have been doing right. Because we have been doing something right, and it would be good to know what, exactly, it is.
— Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
If you are not using your mind for self-torture, why would you think of peace?
— Sadhguru, Of Mystics & Mistakes
Any individual whose conscience is pure and clear, who can think for himself or herself, is a musalman or muslim, regardless of socio-religious background. Likewise, any human being who loves the neighbor as much as his or her own family is a Christian.
— Abhijit Naskar, The Islamophobic Civilization: Voyage of Acceptance