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
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
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
All men desire peace, but very few desire those things that make for peace.
~ Thomas À Kempis
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
Peace and trust take years to build and seconds to shatter.
~ Mahogany Silverrain
They will not let you have peace, they don't want you to have anything they don't have themselves.
~ Margaret Atwood
Eat healthily, sleep well, breathe deeply, move harmoniously.
~ Jean-Pierre Barral
Peace and love, peace and love!
~ Ringo Starr
Go in the direction of where your peace is coming from.
~ C. Joybell C.
Peace beginsWhen expectation ends.
~ Sri Chinmoy
Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Our heart is wide enough to embrace the world and hands are long enough to encompass the world.
~ Amit Ray
Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.
~ Jack Kornfield
The more we practice nonviolence in our words, thoughts and actions the more peaceful will be our inner state.
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
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
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
We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.
~ Mother Teresa
Only the brave men and women can bring peace to the world, not by practicing war but by practicing nonviolence.
Discover your deep inner-self and from that place spread love in every direction.
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
...our souls may be consumed by shadows, but that doesn't mean we have to behave as monsters.
~ Emm Cole
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.
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
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
Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.
~ Thomas Pynchon
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
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
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
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
