Peace QuotesPeace quotes in this collection are meant to promote peace. Peace in the world starts with peace in your heart (quote me on that)! I hope these quotes go straight to your heart. We all hold a vision for peace on earth. Read more... Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you; not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. John 14:27 Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well. Buddha Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without. Buddha The only way to bring peace to the earth is to learn to make our own life peaceful. Buddha Blessed are the single-hearted, for they shall enjoy much peace. If you refuse to be hurried and pressed, if you stay your soul on God, nothing can keep you from that clearness of spirit which is life and peace. In that stillness you will know what His will is. Amy Carmichael Never continue in a job you don’t enjoy. If you’re happy in what you’re doing, you’ll like yourself, you’ll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined. Johnny Carson Inner silence promotes clarity of mind; It makes us value the inner world; It trains us to go inside to the source of peace and inspiration when we are faced with problems and challenges. Deepak Chopra Ask for peace first, and you will clearly see your next step. Alan Cohen If there be righteousness in the heart, there will be beauty in character. If there be beauty in character, there will be harmony in the home. If there be harmony in the home, there will be order in the nation. If there be order in the nation, there will be peace in the world. Confucius It is time to fill the world with strong and powerful deeds. It is common knowledge that no great captain in the world has ever destroyed all of his enemies and lived with a sense of satisfaction. If one enemy is killed, two more will appear. It is important we cultivate love and compassion to all the sentient beings which is the way to bring peace to all. Dalai Lama Peace, in the sense of the absence of war, is of little value to someone who is dying of hunger or cold. It will not remove the pain of torture inflicted on a prisoner of conscience. It does not comfort those who have lost their loved ones in floods caused by senseless deforestation in a neighboring country. Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where the people are fed, and where individuals and nations are free. Dalai Lama We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves. Dalai Lama Without inner peace it is impossible to have world peace. Dalai Lama Better than a thousand useless words is one single word that gives peace. The Dhammapada It is not peace we seek but meaning. Lawrence Durrell Conflict cannot survive without your participation. Wayne Dyer When you live on a round planet, there's no choosing sides. Wayne Dyer Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear. Amelia Earhart Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages. Thomas Alva Edison Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there is in silence. Max Ehrmann For peace of mind, resign as general manager of the universe. Larry Eisenberg Peace…comes within the souls of men when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the Universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the Universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that this center is really everywhere. It is within each of us. Black Elk Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Ralph Waldo Emerson Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. Ralph Waldo Emerson There has never been a good war or a bad peace. Benjamin Franklin Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. Erich Fromm I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before anyone even at the cost of your life. Mahatma Gandhi I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent. Mahatma Gandhi It is possible to live in peace. Mahatma Gandhi Anything in life that we don't accept will simply make trouble for us until we make peace with it. Shakti Gawain He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Find joy and peace in this very moment. Thich Nhat Hanh When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. Jimi Hendrix I do not want the peace that passeth understanding. I want the understanding which bringeth peace. Helen Keller I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him. I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality. Martin Luther King, Jr. True peace is not merely the absence of tension it is the presence of justice. Martin Luther King, Jr. Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows. Martin Luther King, Jr. When we learn to say a deep, passionate yes to the things that really matter, then peace begins to settle onto our lives like golden sunlight sifting to a forest floor. Thomas Kinkade Success, happiness, peace of mind and fulfillment – the most priceless of human treasures – are available to all among us, without exception, who make things happen – who make ‘good’ things happen – in the world around them. Joe Klock There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross The education and empowerment of women throughout the world cannot fail to result in a more caring, tolerant, just and peaceful life for all. Aung San Suu Kyi No fight: no blame. Lao Tzu One cannot reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others. Lao Tzu Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us, and the world will be as one. John Lennon Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself. Og Mandino A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization. Abraham Maslow Beauty is the experience that gives us a sense of joy and a sense of peace simultaneously. Rollo May Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing – peace is the measure. George Melton If you yourself are at peace, then there is at least some peace in the world. Thomas Merton Joy is peace dancing and peace is joy at rest. F. B. Meyer If there is to be any peace, it will come through being, not having. Henry Miller Until you make peace with who you are, you’ll never be content with what you have. Doris Mortman To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness. Robert Muller There is no way to peace, peace is the way. A.J. Muste Peace in the world starts with peace in your heart. Marta Davidovich Ockuly I am leaving this legacy to all of you…to bring peace, justice, equality, love and a fulfillment of what our lives should be. Without vision, the people will perish, and without courage and inspiration, dreams will die – the dream of freedom and peace. Rosa Parks There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community. M. Scott Peck This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love. Peace Pilgrim Peace, or freedom from conflict, is the absolute core of happiness. It is in learning to watch our sense of peace that we avoid unhappiness. All forms of misery are heralded by a frame of mind that must become immediately recognizable if we are ever to gain mastery in happiness...Take the time to look in your heart and be clear. Walk through life being clear. Practice doing each thing in peace. Hugh Prather We have to believe that a creative being lives within ourselves, whether we like it or not, and that we must get out of its way, for it will not give us peace until we do. M. C. Richards It isn’t enough to talk about peace, one must believe it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it, one must work for it. Eleanor Roosevelt Peace, like charity, begins at home. Franklin D. Roosevelt Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there. Rumi Your true nature is purity, peace and joy. Sathya Sai Baba Lord, make me an instrument of your peace, where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy. Saint Francis of Assisi While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart. Saint Francis of Assisi Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace. Saint Theresa of Lisieux I will write peace on your wings and you will fly all over the world. Sadako Sasaki Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace. Albert Schweitzer Whether you are aware of them or not, whether you recognize them as spiritual or not, you probably have had the experiences of silence, or transcendence, or the Divine—a few seconds, a few minutes that seem out of time; a moment when the ordinary looks beautiful, glowing; a deep sense of being at peace, feeling happy for no reason. When these experiences come…believe in them. They reflect your true nature. Ravi Shankar Peace is not the absence of war; it is a virtue; a state of mind; a disposition for benevolence; confidence; and justice. Spinoza Contentment is a state of grace, a state of peace and happiness, appreciation and enjoyment for what is, right now. Desires, in contrast, can never be satisfied. Once we get what we crave, we soon find it less satisfying than we expected, so we strive for something else. The only escape from this perpetual wheel of want is to discover the contentment and perfection we already have. Gillian Stokes Peace and war begin at home. If we truly want peace in the world, let us begin by loving one another in our own families. If we want to spread joy, we need for every family to have joy. Mother Teresa What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family. Mother Teresa Every act of love is a work of peace no matter how small. Mother Teresa If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. Mother Teresa Peace begins with a smile. Mother Teresa In a world of peace and love, music would be the universal language. Henry David Thoreau All the things that truly matter – beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace – arise from beyond the mind. Eckhart Tolle Love, joy and peace cannot flourish until you have freed yourself from mind dominance. Eckhart Tolle Those who have not found their true wealth, which is the radiant joy of being and the deep, unshakable peace that comes with it, are beggars, even if they have great wealth. Eckhart Tolle As long as there are slaughterhouses there will be battlefields. A vegetarian diet is the acid test of humanitarianism. Leo Tolstoy Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities, war. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind. He is the only animal that for sordid wages will march out…and help to slaughter strangers of his own species who have done him no harm and with whom he has no quarrel…And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for the universal brotherhood of man—with his mouth. Mark Twain Why should we all use our creative power….? Because there is nothing that makes people so generous, joyful, lively, bold and compassionate, so indifferent to fighting and the accumulation of objects and money. Brenda Ueland The full and complete development of the world and the cause of peace requires the maximum participation of women as well as men in all fields. United Nations Declaration on Elimination of Discrimination Against Women The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?' Alice Walker Joy is a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace – a connection to what matters. Oprah Winfrey You cannot find peace by avoiding life. Virginia Woolf The possession of material riches, without inner peace, is like dying of thirst while bathing in a lake. Yogananda If children with terminal cancer can find love, joy, beauty and peace in their day – and they do – why don’t we? Dan Zadra Love does more than bring peace where there is conflict. It brings a different way of being in the world. Gary Zukav Return from Peace Quotes and Sayings about Peace to the Quotes Listed by Subject page
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