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Your thoughts are your message to the world. Just as the rays are the messages of the Sun.
— Amit Ray, Meditation: Insights and Inspirations
As much as it hurts, I would rather miss someone than hit someone.
— Brian Celio
Without inner peace, outer peace is impossible. We all wish for world peace, but world peace will never be acheived unless we first establish peace within our own minds. We can send so-called 'peacekeeping forces' into areas of conflict, but peace cannot be oppossed from the outside with guns. Only by creating peace within our own mind and helping others to do the same can we hope to achieve peace in this world.
— Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, Transform Your Life: A Blissful Journey
Those who attempt to conquer hatred by hatred are like warriors who take weapons to overcome others who bear arms. This does not end hatred, but gives it room to grow. But, ancient wisdom has advocated a different timeless strategy to overcome hatred. This eternal wisdom is to meet hatred with non-hatred. The method of trying to conquer hatred through hatred never succeeds in overcoming hatred. But, the method of overcoming hatred through non-hatred is eternally effective. That is why that method is described as eternal wisdom. 
— Gautama Buddha
Peace is not something you wish for,  it is something you make, something you	are, something you do,and something you give away. 
— Robert Fulghum
If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. For, in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all m
— John F. Kennedy
True peace is not merely the absence of war, it is the presence of justice.
— Jane Addams
This was not my moment to be seeking romance and (as day follows night) to further complicate my already knotty life. This was my moment to look for the kind of healing and peace that can only come from solitude.
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
If there is righteousness in the heart, there will be beauty in the character.If there is beauty in the character, there will be harmony in the home.If there is harmony in the home, there will be order in the nations.When there is order in the nations, there will peace in the world.
— Confucius
Peace, though beloved of our Lord, is a cardinal virtue only if your neighbors share your conscience.
— David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
All men desire peace, but very few desire those things that make for peace.
— Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ
Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.
— Mark Twain
Our followers are like bees which live among birds. None of the birds recognize the bees because of their small size and weakness. They would not treat them this way if they realized that these very small bees can carry honey which is very valuable in their stomachs.
— Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S
I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is restrained; this is free.
— Veronica Roth, Divergent
Peace and trust take years to build and seconds to shatter.
— Mahogany SilverRain
Action is the foundational key to all success. 
— Pablo Picasso
They will not let you have peace, they don't want you to have anything they don't have themselves.
— Margaret Atwood, Surfacing
Eat healthily, sleep well, breathe deeply, move harmoniously.
— Jean-Pierre Barral
Peace and love, peace and love!
— Ringo Starr
Do not be afraid to take a chance on peace, to teach peace, to live peace...Peace will be the last word of history.
— John Paul II
Go in the direction of where your peace is coming from.
— C. JoyBell C.
Peace beginsWhen expectation ends.
— Sri Chinmoy, Perfection and Transcendence
Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
— Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
Our heart is wide enough to embrace the world and hands are long enough to encompass the world.
— Amit Ray, Nonviolence: The Transforming Power
Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.
— Jack Kornfield, Buddha's Little Instruction Book
The more we practice nonviolence in our words, thoughts and actions the more peaceful will be our inner state.
— Amit Ray, Nonviolence: The Transforming Power
Something wonderful begins to happen with the simple realization that life, like an automobile, is driven from the inside out, not the other way around. As you focus more on becoming more peaceful with where you are, rather than focusing on where you would rather be, you begin to find peace right now, in the present. Then, as you move around, try new things, and meet new people, you carry that sense of inner peace with you. It's absolutely true that, "Wherever you go, there you are.
— Richard Carlson, Don't Sweat the Small Stuff ... and it's all small stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking Over Your Life
If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.
— Thich Nhat Hanh, Being Peace
Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.
— Thomas Merton
It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful, like the flowers, than large, conservative, repressed, fearful, and aggressive, like the thunder lizards; a lesson, by the way, that the Earth has yet to learn.
— Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume
We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.
— Mother Teresa, The Joy in Loving: A Guide to Daily Living
I used to think that the world was doing something to me, that the world owed me something. And that either the conservatives or the socialists or the fascists or the communists or the Christians or the Jews or the fascists were doing something to me. And when you're a teeny-booper, that's what you think. I'm 40 now, I don't think that anymore—because I found out it doesn't fucking work. I am part of them. There's no separation. Were all one. "Give peace a chance," not "Shoot people for peace." "All you need is love." I believe it. It's damn hard, but I absolutely believe it.
— John Lennon
The secret of the mountain is that the mountains simply exist, as I do myself: the mountains exist simply, which I do not. The mountains have no "meaning," they are meaning; the mountains are. The sun is round. I ring with life, and the mountains ring, and when I can hear it, there is a ringing that we share. I understand all this, not in my mind but in my heart, knowing how meaningless it is to try to capture what cannot be expressed, knowing that mere words will remain when I read it all again, another day.
— Peter Matthiessen, The Snow Leopard
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education
—  all politics can do is keep us out of war.
Only the brave men and women can bring peace to the world, not by practicing war but by practicing nonviolence.
— Amit Ray, Nonviolence: The Transforming Power
Discover your deep inner-self and from that place spread love in every direction.
— Amit Ray, Meditation: Insights and Inspirations
the search for meaning is really the search for the lost chord. When the lost chord is discovered by humankind, the discord in the world will be healed and the symphony of the universe will come into complete harmony with itself.
— John O'Donohue, Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom
...our souls may be consumed by shadows, but that doesn't mean we have to behave as monsters.
— Emm Cole, The Short Life of Sparrows
Meditation is not thinking about the image of a person of the past. It is more about focusing and channelizing the power of your emotions and imagination for fulfilling a bigger dream - the dream that will bring more life, energy peace, happiness and meaning to you and the society.
— Amit Ray, Nonviolence: The Transforming Power
Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content, The quiet mind is richer than a crown...
— Robert Greene
Give me loveGive me loveGive me peace on earthGive me lightGive me lifeKeep me free from birthGive me hopeHelp me cope, with this heavy loadTrying to, touch and reach you with,heart and soul
— George Harrison
When Mandela passed away, the long walk to freedom will be longer and harder. I wish with my tears that every parent tell about Mandela to their children, shall their children grow up firmly and with faith.
— Professor Pezhman Mosleh
May our daily choices be a reflection of our deepest values, and may we use our voices to speak for those who need us most, those who have no voice, those who have no choice.
— Colleen Patrick-Goudreau, Vegan's Daily Companion: 365 Days of Inspiration for Cooking, Eating, and Living Compassionately
My prayer is simple my dear one, my dear one. May you never need understand. My prayer is for peacetime, my child, my child. Live it well and this life can be grand.
— Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, Hawksong
Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.
— Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
In certain situations, manifesting anger is the right attitude; in others it is not the right thing to manifest because it will only add to the violence. In the first case, anger unblocks the conflict and causes another to become more conscious. In the latter, it only adds to the unconsciousness and inflames the conflict. (73)
— Jean-Yves Leloup, Compassion and Meditation: The Spiritual Dynamic between Buddhism and Christianity
She wanted so to be tranquil, to be someone who took walks in the late-afternoon sun, listening to the birds and crickets and feeling the whole world breathe. Instead, she lived in her head like a madwoman locked in a tower, hearing the wind howling through her hair and waiting for someone to come and rescue her from feeling things so deeply that her bones burned.
— Carrie Fisher, Postcards from the Edge
In the midst of happiness or despairin sorrow or in joyin pleasure or in pain:Do what is right and you will be at peace.In life there is no greater gift than peace,except love.May you always have love.
— Jess Rothenberg, The Catastrophic History of You and Me
Everything can change in a heartbeat; it can slip away in an instant. Everything you trust, and treasure, whatever brings you comfort, comes at a terrible cost. Health is temporary; money disappears. Safety is nothing big an illusion. So when the moment comes, and everything you depend upon changes, or perhaps someone you love disappears, or no longer loves you, must disaster follow? Or will you-somehow-adapt?
— Margaret Overton
Even the smallest tender mercy can bring peace when recognized and appreciated.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
If everyone who had a gun just shot themselves, there wouldn't be a problem.
— George Harrison
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it toward others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will also be in our troubled world.
— Etty Hillesum
Jerusalem! My Love,My TownI wept until my tears were dryI prayed until the candles flickeredI knelt until the floor creakedI asked about Mohammed and ChristOh Jerusalem, the fragrance of prophetsThe shortest path between earth and skyOh Jerusalem, the citadel of lawsA beautiful child with fingers charredand downcast eyesYou are the shady oasis passed by the ProphetYour streets are melancholyYour minarets are mourningYou, the young maiden dressed in blackWho rings the bells at the Nativity Church, On sunday morning?Who brings toys for the childrenOn Christmas eve?Oh Jerusalem, the city of sorrowA big tear wandering in the eyeWho will halt the aggressionOn you, the pearl of religions?Who will wash your bloody walls?Who will safeguard the Bible?Who will rescue the Quran?Who will save Christ, From those who have killed Christ?Who will save man?Oh Jerusalem my townOh Jerusalem my loveTomorrow the lemon trees will blossomAnd the olive trees will rejoiceYour eyes will danceThe migrant pigeons will returnTo your sacred roofsAnd your children will play againAnd fathers and sons will meetOn your rosy hillsMy townThe town of peace and olives
— نزار قباني
All sentient beings should have at least one right—the right not to be treated as property
— Gary L. Francione
On a second note, though, I have something to say about pain. There are lots of kinds of pain. Pain of smashing your fingers in a car door, pains of loosing a baby, pain of failing a test. But in their own little ways, these pains are all agonizing. Which is sad, and yet, happy, if you really think about it. If we never lost our car keys, or stepped in gum, or had a bad hair day, what kind of people would we be? In a word? Boring. We wouldn't be passionate; we wouldn't know it was exciting to get pregnant, or score an A on a final. So that's why, today at least, I am grateful for pain. Because it's part of what makes me the whacky, goofy, jaded, person that I am. Peace.
— Alysha Speer
In the home begins the disruption of the peace of the world.
— Mother Teresa
But they can't know how the dark space inside me is growing. I lie to them. I can't get out of the dark hole. 'Peace is here' it whispers.
— Lurlene McDaniel, Breathless
If I were to envy any persons on this planet, it would be mountain hermits. You often hear old platitudes such as, 'Speak out. Be heard.' On the contrary, a breath of fresh air would be something like: 'Silence, think for at least 15 minutes, and then maybe speak out.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
Now may every living thing, young or old,weak or strong, living near or far, known orunknown, living or departed or yet unborn,may every living thing be full of bliss.
— Anonymous, The Dhammapada
Being still does not mean don't move. It means move in peace.
— E'yen A. Gardner
You can bomb the world to pieces, but you can't bomb it into peace. Power to the peaceful.
— Michael Franti
We are beckoned to see the world through a one-way mirror, as if we are threatened and innocent and the rest of humanity is threatening, or wretched, or expendable. Our memory is struggling to rescue the truth that human rights were not handed down as privileges from a parliament, or a boardroom, or an institution, but that peace is only possible with justice and with information that gives us the power to act justly.
— John Pilger
Sometimes the simplest solution out of conflict is becoming someone’s friend, instead of saying goodbye forever.
— Shannon L. Alder
But I have come to learn there is no peace while others suffer.
— Lily Blake, Snow White & the Huntsman
Unless and until we have peace deep within us, we can never hope to have peace in the outer world. You and I create the world by the vibrations that we offer to it. If we can invoke peace and then offer it to somebody else, we will see how peace expands from one to two persons, and gradually to the world at large. Peace will come about in the world from the perfection of individuals. If you have peace, I have peace, he has peace, and she has peace, then automatically universal peace will dawn.
— Sri Chinmoy, The Jewels of Happiness: Inspiration and Wisdom to Guide Your Life-Journey
Fights between individuals, as well as governments and nations, invariably result from misunderstandings in the broadest interpretation of this term. Misunderstandings are always caused by the inability of appreciating one another's point of view. This again is due to the ignorance of those concerned, not so much in their own, as in their mutual fields. The peril of a clash is aggravated by a more or less predominant sense of combativeness, posed by every human being. To resist this inherent fighting tendency the best way is to dispel ignorance of the doings of others by a systematic spread of general knowledge. With this object in view, it is most important to aid exchange of thought and intercourse.
— Nikola Tesla
Thankfulness creates gratitude which generates contentment that causes peace.
— Todd Stocker
Q: Why do I love thee, O Night?A: Because you know I will never answer.
— Vera Nazarian
There's no time for hatred, only questions. Where is love? Where is happiness? What is life? Where is peace?
— Jeff Buckley
There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
— Henry Ward Beecher
We will outstretch the hand if you unclench your fist. 
— Barack Obama
If people were more concerned with how they looked on the inside, then on the outside, the world would be a nicer place to exist.
— David Walsh
All we are saying is give peace a chance.
— John Lennon
I had to work so hard to find myself again, Alexandr." There was pain in her voice. "I was so lost without you. You left me raw and wounded and trapped in a dark place with no windows or doors. I didn't know how to live without you. I didn't know how to smile or feel or be. It took almost two years before I really accepted that it was over and I had to find a way to go on. I made myself strong. I'm alive again. I can wake up some mornings and be happy. I can look at the ocean and find peace again. Now you're asking me to risk everything all over again and I'm not certain I could survive if it all came crashing down.
— Christine Feehan, Oceans of Fire
May you bring unconditional love and infinite peace.
— Alyson Noel, Blue Moon
Please don't wait until the doctors tell you that you are going to have a baby to begin to take care of it. It is already there. Whatever you are, whatever you do, your baby will get it. Anything you eat, any worries that are on your mind will be for him or her. Can you tell me that you cannot smile? Think of the baby, and smile for him, for her, for the future generations. Please don't tell me that a smile and your sorrow just don't go together. It's your sorrow, but what about your baby? It's not his sorrow, its not her sorrow.
— Thich Nhat Hanh, Being Peace
A world where it is safe to love is a world where it is safe to live
— Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio
And the peace which I always found in the silence and emptiness of the moors filled me utterly
— James Herriot
Resolution, like responsibility, is a product of ownership, and kids can't resolve a conflict until they figure out how they contributed to it.
— Richard Eyre, The Entitlement Trap: How to Rescue Your Child with a New Family System of Choosing, Earning, and Ownership
Peace is the gift of God. Do you want peace? Go to God. Do you want peace in your families? Go to God. Do you want peace to brood over your families? If you do, live your religion, and the very peace of God will dwell and abide with you, for that is where peace comes from, and it doesn't dwell anywhere else. . . .Some in speaking of war and troubles, will say are you not afraid? No, I am a servant of God, and this is enough, for Father is at the helm. It is for me to be as clay in the hands of the potter, to be pliable and walk in the light of the countenance of the Spirit of the Lord, and then no matter what comes. Let the lightnings flash and the earthquakes bellow, God is at the helm, and I feel like saying but little, for the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth and will continue his work until he has put all enemies under his feet, and his kingdom extends from the rivers to the ends of the earth.
— John Taylor, Journal of Discourses
Every thought, every word, and every action that adds to the positive and the wholesome is a contribution to peace. Each and every one of us is capable of making such a contribution.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
...whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. And peace will be with you.
— Barbara Kingsolver, Flight Behavior
World-peace can be achieved when the power of love replaces the love of power.
— Sri Chinmoy
Do not focus too much on the east and forget the west. And do not ignore the south, to speak for the north. What happens in the east has effects in the north, as the west has in the south. And do not focus on one species and ignore the other. Or love your father but ignore your mother, or love your sister but ignore your brother. Do not forget each other. We are all part of each other. We are all one.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Mapmaker mapmakermake me a mapone to one scale, without a single gap.Map every rock,every thought, every treeand erase all the territory.
— Joseph Gordon-Levitt, The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories, Vol. 2
We haven't been too bad, have we?""No, nor enormously good. I suppose that's the trouble - we haven't been much of anything except us, while a big part of the world was busy being lots of awful things.
— Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man
You might be tempted to avoid the messiness of daily living for the tranquility of stillness and peacefulness. This of course would be an attachment to stillness, and like any strong attachment, it leads to delusion. It arrests development and short-circuits the cultivation of wisdom.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn, Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life
They have plundered the world, stripping naked the land in their hunger… they are driven by greed, if their enemy be rich; by ambition, if poor… They ravage, they slaughter, they seize by false pretenses, and all of this they hail as the construction of empire. And when in their wake nothing remains but a desert, they call that peace.
— Tacitus, The Agricola and The Germania
There is no peace, I'm sorry to say. We find it. We lose it. We find it again. We lose it again.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Slapstick, or Lonesome No More!
Miss Morstan and I stood together, and her hand was in mine. A wondrous subtle thing is love, for here were we two, who had never seen each other until that day, between whom no word or even look of affection had ever passed, and yet now in an hour of trouble our hands instinctively sought for each other. I have marveled at it since, but at the time it seemed the most natural thing that I would go out to her so, and, as she has often told me, there was in her also the instinct to turn to me for comfort and protection. So we stood hand in hand like two children, and there was peace in our hearts for all the dark things that surrounded us.
— Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, Volume I
Thus Gotama [Buddha] walked toward the town to gather alms, and the two samanas recognized him solely by the perfection of his repose, by the calmness of his figure, in which there was no trace of seeking, desiring, imitating, or striving, only light and peace
— Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
Peace between countries must rest on the solid foundation of love between individuals.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Sometimes a strikeout means that the slugger’s girlfriend just ran off with the UPS driver. Sometimes a muffed ground ball means that the shortstop’s baby daughter has a pain in her head that won’t go away. And handicapping is for amateur golfers, not ballplayers. Pitchers don’t ease off on the cleanup hitter because of the lumps just discovered in his wife’s breast. Baseball is not life. It is a fiction, a metaphor. And a ballplayer is a man who agrees to uphold that metaphor as though lives were at stake. Perhaps they are. I cherish a theory I once heard propounded by G.Q. Durham that professional baseball is inherently antiwar. The most overlooked cause of war, his theory runs, is that it’s so damned interesting. It takes hard effort, skill, love and a little luck to make times of peace consistently interesting. About all it takes to make war interesting is a life. The appeal of trying to kill others without being killed yourself, according to Gale, is that it brings suspense, terror, honor, disgrace, rage, tragedy, treachery and occasionally even heroism within range of guys who, in times of peace, might lead lives of unmitigated blandness. But baseball, he says, is one activity that is able to generate suspense and excitement on a national scale, just like war. And baseball can only be played in peace. Hence G.Q.’s thesis that pro ball-players—little as some of them may want to hear it—are basically just a bunch of unusually well-coordinated guys working hard and artfully to prevent wars, by making peace more interesting.
— David James Duncan
There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which... is within the souls of men.
— Black Elk
Jedi do not fight for peace. That's only a slogan, and is as misleading as slogans always are. Jedi fight for civilization, because only civilization creates peace. We fight for justice because justice is the fundamental bedrock of civilization: an unjust civilization is built upon sand. It does not long survive a storm.
— Matthew Woodring Stover, Shatterpoint
Change occurs when one becomes what he is, not when he tries to become what he is not.
— Arnold Beisser
Get yourself grounded and you can navigate even the stormiest roads in peace.
— Steve Goodier
Nobody can keep on being angry if she looks into the heart of a pansy for a little while.
— L.M. Montgomery
I want peace; yes, I'd sell the whole world for a farthing, straight off, so long as I was left in peace. Is the world to go to pot, or am I to go without my tea? I say that the world may go to pot for me so long as I always get my tea. Did you know that, or not? Well, anyway, I know that I am a blackguard, a scoundrel, an egoist, a sluggard.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
It is only through meditation that we can get lasting peace, divine peace. If we meditate soulfully in the morning and receive peace for only one minute, that one minute of peace will permeate our whole day. And when we have a meditation of the highest order, then we really get abiding peace, light and delight. We need meditation because we want to grow in light and fulfill ourselves in light. If this is our aspiration, if this is our thirst, then meditation is the only way.
— Sri Chinmoy, The Wisdom Of Sri Chinmoy
If you're at the end of your rope . . . untie the knot in your heart.
— Cooper Edens, If You're Afraid of the Dark, Remember the Night Rainbow/Add One More Star to the Night
The only two important things in life are real love and being at peace with yourself.
— Jonathan Carroll, Sleeping in Flame
Crooked Warden, I will fear no darkness for the night is yours," muttered Locke, pointing the first two fingers of his left hand into the darkness. The Dagger of the Thirteenth, a thief's gesture against evil. "Your night is my cloak, my shield, my escape from those who hunt to feed the noose. I will fear no evil, for you have made the night my friend.""Bless the Benefactor," said Jean, squeezing Locke's left forearm. "Peace and profit to his children.
— Scott Lynch, Red Seas Under Red Skies
I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
This is my country, that is your country; these are the conceptions of narrow souls - to the liberal minded the whole world is a family.
— Virchand Gandhi
We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.
— William Ewart Gladstone
It was how wars really ended, Dieffenbaker supposed -- not at truce tables but in cancer wards and office cafeterias and traffic jams. Wars died one tiny piece at a time, each piece something that fell like a memory, each lost like an echo that fades in winding hills. In the end even war ran up the white flag. Or so he hoped. He hoped that in the end even war surrendered.
— Stephen King, Hearts in Atlantis
That deep silence has a melody of its own, a sweetness unknown amid the harsh discords of the world's sounds.
— Paul Brunton, The Notebooks of Paul Brunton
Preventing war is the work of politicians, establishing peace is the work of educationists.
— Maria Montessori
There are two influences ever present in the world. One is constructive and elevating and comes from our Heavenly Father; the other is destructive and debasing and comes from Lucifer. We have our agency and make our own choice in life subject to these unseen powers. There is a division line well defined that separates the Lord's territory from Lucifer's. If we live on the Lord's side of the line Lucifer cannot come there to influence us, but if we cross the line into his territory we are in his power. By keeping the commandments of the Lord we are safe on His side of the line, but if we disobey His teachings we voluntarily cross into the zone of temptation and invite the destruction that is ever present there. Knowing this, how anxious we should always be to live on the Lord's side of the line.
— George Albert Smith
Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root... Our military strength is a prerequisite to peace, but let it be clear we maintain this strength in the hope it will never be used, for the ultimate determinant in the struggle that's now going on in the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas, a trial of spiritual resolve, the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish, the ideals to which we are dedicated.
— Ronald Reagan, The Quest for Peace, the Cause of Freedom
They're not chicks. They're ducks.
— Lauren Myracle
Ever since the day of the mistake with my Match. I've never known which life is my true one. Even with the reassurances of the Offical that day in the greenspace, I think a part of me hasn't felt at peace. It was as though I saw for the first time that life could branch into different paths, take different directions.
— Ally Condie, Matched
We too should make ourselves empty, that the great soul of the universe may fill us with its breath.
— Laurence Binyon
To Alef, the letterthat begins the alphabetsof both Arabic and Hebrew-two Semitic languages,sisters for centuries.May we find the languagethat takes usto the only home there is - one another's hearts....Alef knowsThat a threadOf a storyStitches togetherA wound.
— Ibtisam Barakat, Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood
Love is a weapon of Light, and it has the power to eradicate all forms of darkness. That is the key. When we offer love even to our enemies, we destroy their darkness and hatred...
— Yehuda Berg
Part of me wants justice for this. Part of me wants to never cause harm to another.
— Ken Scholes, Lamentation
For you see, the face of destiny or luck or god that gives us war also gives us other kinds of pain: the loss of health and youth; the loss of loved ones or of love; the fear that we will end our days alone. Some people suffer in peace the way others suffer in war. The special gift of that suffering, I have learned, is how to be strong while we are weak, how to be brave when we are afraid, how to be wise in the midst of confusion, and how to let go of that which we can no longer hold. In this way, anger can teach us forgiveness, hate can teach us love, and war can teach us peace.
— Le Ly Hayslip, When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace
The least known among the virtues and also the most misunderstood is the virtue of humility. Yet, it is the very groundwork of Christianity. Humility is a grace of the soul that cannot be expressed in words and is only known by experience. It is an unspeakable treasure of God, and only can be called the gift of God. "Learn," He said, not from angels, not from men, not from books; but learn from My presence, light, and action within you, "that I am meek and humble of heart, and you shall find rest to your souls". 
— William Bernard Ullathorne
If you put a spoonful of saltin a cup of waterit tastes very salty.If you put a spoonful of saltin a lake of fresh waterthe taste is still pure and clear.Peace comes when our hearts areopen like the sky,vast as the ocean.
— Jack Kornfield, The Art of Forgiveness, Lovingkindness, and Peace
He looked down at her. "Have you found that peace?"Yes, she had. But it was so corny and cliched that she couldn't bring herself to admit it."A wise man once told me that peace has to come from within. We have to learn to like ourselves before we can find our place in the world.
— Sherrilyn Kenyon, No Mercy
The charm of variety there was not, nor the excitement of incident; but I liked peace so well, and sought stimulus so little, that when the latter came I almost felt it a disturbance, and rather still wished it had held aloof.
— Charlotte Brontë, Villette
Glass & peace alike betray proof of fragility under repeated blows.
— David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
Heaven on Earth, we need it nowI'm sick of all of this hanging aroundSick of sorrow, sick of the painI'm sick of hearing again and againThat there's gonna be peace on Earth......Tell the ones who hear no soundWhose sons are living in the groundPeace on EarthNo whos or whysNo one cries like a mother criesFor peace on Earth
— U2
Have little,Need less:This is the wayTo inner peace.Surrender is a journeyFrom the outer turmoilTo the inner peace.PeaceIs in inner awakening,And this inner awakeningWe must shareWith the rest of the world.
— Sri Chinmoy
Peace is not always easy to grasp or keep close. In the process of attaining and protecting it, you may find yourself tired, weary, and uncertain on how to keep your peace safe. While being uncertain is normal, continue to commit yourself to peacefulness. You are worthy of every drop of sweetness and ease that you encounter. Being tested is a part of the journey. Giving up, and letting go, is not.
— alex elle
There are few times that I feel more at peace, more in tune, more Zen, if you will, than when I force myself to unplug.
— Harlan Coben, Six Years
In this world, unity is achievable only by learning to unite in spite of differences, rather than insisting on unity without differences. For their total eradication is an impossibility. The secret of attaining peace in life is tolerance of disturbance of the peace. (p. 99)
— Maulana Wahiduddin Khan, The True Jihad: The Concept of Peace, Tolerance and Non Violence in Islam
Declare it. Just the same way we declare war. That is how we will have peace... we just need to declare it.
— John Lennon
A feeling is not bottomless. once felt all the way through,a great peace greets you there
— Alanis Morissette
O Thou who art my quietness, my deep repose,My rest from strife of tongues, my holy hill,Fair is Thy pavilion, where I hold me still.Back let them fall from me, my clamorous foes,Confusions multiplied;From crowding things of sense I flee, and Thee I hide.Until this tyranny be overpast,Thy hand will hold me fast;What though the tumult of the storm increase,Grant to Thy servant strength, O Lord, and bless with peace.
— Amy Carmichael, Toward Jerusalem
If you or I are having a single thought of violence or hatred against anyone in the world at this moment, we are contributing to the wounding of the world.
— Deepak Chopra
Grant that I may radiate Thy Light, Thy Love,Thy Healing, Thy Joy, and Thy Peaceto all those around meand all those in my thoughtsthis day and ever more.
— Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is our duty to ensure we have a peace worth fighting for.
— Chris Bradford, The Way of the Dragon
The god of Victory is said to be one-handed, but Peace gives victory to both sides.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Give your entire attention to what God is doing right now, and don't get worked up about what may or may not happen tomorrow. God will help you deal with whatever hard things come up when the time comes.
— Anonymous, Holy Bible: King James Version
A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.
— William Shakespeare
Let us recognize that we are all part of each other. We are all human. We are all one.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
The more you talk about it, rehash it, rethink it, cross analyze it, debate it, respond to it, get paranoid about it, compete with it, complain about it, immortalize it, cry over it, kick it, defame it, stalk it, gossip about it, pray over it, put it down or dissect its motives it continues to rot in your brain. It is dead. It is over. It is gone. It is done. It is time to bury it because it is smelling up your life and no one wants to be near your rotted corpse of memories and decaying attitude. Be the funeral director of your life and bury that thing!
— Shannon L. Alder
Don't think for one minute that you are any less worthy of love and peace and harmony just because of all the hate spewed by human devils. Because that is what those haters are, you know, devils!
— Scylar Tyberius, Sebastian the Great
There is a tonic strength, in the hour of sorrow and affliction, in escaping from the world and society and getting back to the simple duties and interests we have slighted and forgotten. Our world grows smaller, but it grows dearer and greater. Simple things have a new charm for us, and we suddenly realize that we have been renouncing all that is greatest and best, in our pursuit of some phantom.
— William George Jordan
Peace at home, peace in the world.
— Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Is it not better for a man to die for a cause in which he believes, such as peace, than to suffer for a cause in which he does not believe, such as war?
— Albert Einstein
Modern civilisation is complicated and artificial. Simple folk live in a world of love and peace. Let no one hate another or harm another.
— Sivananda Saraswati
One in AllAll in One--If only this is realized,No more worry about your not being perfect (175)
— Edward Conze, Buddhist Scriptures
A good friend of mine once said, "I have never met a bigot who was a reader as a child.
— Marion Dane Bauer, Am I Blue?: Coming Out from the Silence
For a Siddhar yogi, time is precious. It is important to utilize every moment to evolve into ever higher states of consciousness. We understand stagnancy as decay and for growth, we constantly discard the old to welcome change as the new. We tap into the magical abilities to evolve. "Every saint was a sinner in the past" maxim holds true. In the intensity of our yogic pursuit we evolve quickly. By evolving, we know that is the greatest gift of a lifetime we could ever receive- to be angelic as a being of consciousness. Consciousness is ever evolving and dynamic in transforming.
— Nandhiji, Mastery of Consciousness: Awaken the Inner Prophet: Liberate Yourself with Yogic Wisdom.
I am for true world peace and building a beautiful global garden for our children.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
The world never leaves one in ignorance or in peace.
— Ouida, Wanda, Countess von Szalras.
Peace is letting it be. Letting life flow, letting emotions flow through you.
— Kamal Ravikant, Live Your Truth
Silence is the invisibility of talking. I'd take half an argument over half a silence any day. And I'd take peace and quiet over a full-blown argument any other day, unless it's Tuesday.
— Will Advise, Nothing is here...
We have undoubtedly achieved Pakistan, and that too without bloody war, practically peacefully, by moral and intellectual force, and with the power of the pen, which is no less mighty than that of the sword and so our righteous cause has triumphed. Are we now going to besmear and tarnish this greatest achievement for which there is no parallel in the history of the world? Pakistan is now a fait accompli and it can never be undone, besides, it was the only just, honourable, and practical solution of the most complex constitutional problem of this great subcontinent. Let us now plan to build and reconstruct and regenerate our great nation...
— Muhammad Ali Jinnah
People who insist on dividing the world into 'Us' and 'Them' never contemplate that they may be someone else's 'Them'.
— Ray A. Davis
Come then, put away your sword in its sheath, and let us two go up into my bed so that, lying together in the bed of love, we may then have faith and trust in each other.
— Homer, The Odyssey
Peace is a conscious choice.
— John Denver
Those who believe and their hearts become calm and contented with the remembrance of Allah...know that it is the remembrance of Allah alone that brings rest to the hearts.(The Qur'an-surah ar-R'ad
— 28)
The more we genuinely care about others the greater our own happiness & inner peace.
— Allan Lokos, Pocket Peace: Effective Practices for Enlightened Living
There's a non-existent peace in the uncertain quietness
— Fernando Pessoa, Poems of Fernando Pessoa
Eventually you will come to realize that love heals everything, and love is all there is.
— Gary Zukav
If you meet an angel, you will have not peace, but a fever.
— Stefano Benni, Margherita Dolce Vita
To allow oneself to be carried awayBy a multitude of conflicting concerns,To surrender to too many demands,...To commit oneself to too many projects,To want to help everyone with everythingIs to succumb to violence.
— Thomas Merton
With the help of the Lord, you can handle life's challenges and heartaches, even the valley of the shadow of death. What comfort your fainting heart has, knowing that in those stumbling times of discouragement and despair, of depletion and seeming defeat, the Shepherd will find you...restore and "fix" you...and follow you...until you are well on your way.
— Elizabeth George, Quiet Confidence for a Woman's Heart
As technology accumulates and people in more parts of the planet become interdependent, the hatred between them tends to decrease, for the simple reason that you can't kill someone and trade with him too.
— Steven Pinker, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
It seemed to me that all things were possible on the island, all tyrannies and cruelties, though in small; and if, in despite of what was possible, we lived at peace with another, surely this was proof that certain laws unknown to us held sway, or else that we had been following the promptings of our hearts all this time, and our hearts had not betrayed us.
— J.M. Coetzee, Foe
Let us feel love, in the sight of our foes.Let our hearts melt, of the sight of hungry ones.Let us sing the music of forgiveness,the melody of love.
— M.Padua
Blessed are the peacemakers
—  theirs is the kingdom of heaven
In Jesus the full meaning of peace is revealed: he gave peace, made peace and is our peace (Jn. 14:27; Eph. 2:14f.).
— Gordon J. Wenham
Peace can happen in 24 hours....just like war can happen in 24 hours.
— Sari Nusseibeh
I knew I was a grain of sand in the vast desert that never ended and he was a sparkling star in the sky. I was a fish who couldn’t breathe in air and had to stay in dark waters forever while he was a majestic bird who soared so high that he barely touched the ground. I did not deserve him. I could only watch him from down here and wish, wish that he could come here someday. That he could know that I existed. But for that, he had to fall. He had to drop to the ground but I could not let that happen. And then I thought, birds are meant to fly and stars are meant to shine and if someone takes it away from them, they can't be the same anymore. So, I just prayed that his wings never fail him, that the star never explodes. And I was at peace.
— Aleena Yasin
The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity.
— Matthew Henry
Most often it is in heartache that we love more boldly.
— Jill Telford
Love creates a communion with life. Love expands us, connects us, sweetens us, ennobles us.Love springs up in tender concern, it blossoms into caring action. It makes beauty out of all we touch. In any moment we can step beyond our small self and embrace each other as beloved parts of a whole.
— Jack Kornfield, The Art of Forgiveness, Lovingkindness, and Peace
Peace is the fruit of love, a love that is also justice. But to grow in love requires work -- hard work. And it can bring pain because it implies loss -- loss of the certitudes, comforts, and hurts that shelter and define us.
— Jean Vanier, Finding Peace
Elric knew that everything that existed had its opposite. In danger he might find peace. And yet, of course, in peace there was danger. Being an imperfect creature in an imperfect world he would always know paradox. And that was why in paradox there was always a kind of truth. That was why philosophers and soothsayers flourished. In a perfect world there would be no place for them. In an imperfect world the mysteries were always without solution and that was why there was always a great choice of solutions.
— Michael Moorcock, The Elric Saga Part I
Peace is only a thought away.
— Jill Bolte Taylor
Peace and rest at length have comeAll the day's long toil is past,And each heart is whispering, 'Home,Home at last.
— Thomas Hood
Prayer is vastly superior to worry. With worry, we are helpless; with prayer, we are interceding. When I hear sad news, I try to say a prayer for the victims. When I am troubled, I will say a prayer that asks for relief for myself and for all those who suffer as I do. When I am concerned about my relatives or friends I say a short prayer to myself - "May they be happy and free of suffering." Book: Seeking Peace: Chronicles of the Worst Buddist in the World
— Mary Pipher
Veganism is about nonviolence. It is about not engaging in harm to other sentient beings; to oneself; and to the environment upon which all beings depend for life. In my view, the animal rights movement is, at its core, a movement about ending violence to all sentient beings. It is a movement that seeks fundamental justice for all. It is an emerging peace movement that does not stop at the arbitrary line that separates humans from nonhumans.
— Gary L. Francione
Peace comes at a price, often only at the end of a hard-fought battle.
— Toni Sorenson
It was entirely silent and I tried to breathe its peace.
— Sebastian Faulks, Engleby
Welfare reforms and the whole “happy” exploitation movement are not “baby steps.” They are big steps–in a seriously backward direction.
— Gary L. Francione
An evil can only be killed by another kind of evil, because the pure spirit of peace can not do killing.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
What a blessing to be able to leave the cares of life for a brief period and spend time in the outstretched arms of your Shepherd, rubbing, as it were, your cheek against His face in intimate fellowship through prayer.
— Elizabeth George, Quiet Confidence for a Woman's Heart
On this platform of peace, we can create a languageto translate ourselves to ourselves and to each other.
— Maya Angelou, Celebrations: Rituals of Peace and Prayer
Listen to your hearts, parents! You are the expert when it comes to knowing your child. I love the Scripture that says we are to let the peace of God rule in our hearts...In other words, peace in your heart is to be like an umpire calling the shots. When in doubt--DON'T!
— Sherrie Eldridge, Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew
Life is not a battle to win but a melody to sing.
— Amit Ray, Enlightenment Step by Step
Peace does not dwell in outward things but within the soul; we may preserve it in the midst of the bitterest pain, if our will remains firm and submissive. Peace in this life springs from acquiescence to, not an exemption from, suffering.
— François Fénelon
It is a bad world, Donatus, an incredibly bad world. But I have discovered in the midst of it a quiet and good people who have learned the great secret of life. They have found a joy and wisdom which is a thousand times better than any of the pleasures of our sinful life. They are despised and persecuted, but they care not. They are masters of their souls. They have overcome the world. These people, Donatus, are Christians. . . and I am one of them.
— Cyprian
Love is our strength to overcome the evils of the world.
— Amit Ray, Walking the Path of Compassion