Peace Quotes

The break of a family is the break of society.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The bond of love, the bond of peace.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The bond of love and the bond of peace keep us together in harmony.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Forgive and be compassionate with another in love, in peace and in faith.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We are united by the bond of love.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It's not a matter of whether you want happiness. We all need peace, love, and happiness. But, if you fail to nurture your spirit, by absorbing all things good and giving attention to the matters of your heart, it will be hard to obtain. It must radiate from inside of you. Then, flow outwardly penetrating everyone around you.

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

The bond of love, we unite the world.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Why can’t we all live together in love and in peace?

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Somethings worth having defy logic. They come with obstacles, challenges, battles and long periods of wandering in the dark. Your path won't make sense to your family or friends. People will weigh in with their life rules and fears, but in the end it is your life. That pull you feel is real and often your intuition. It nags at you everyday. Follow it for as far as it takes you because life is too short to dwell on indecision, while you forget to live. Take a chance because if you have a good heart God isn't going to abandon you. He will travel wherever you need to go, in order to find the missing pieces of your soul.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Breathing is our participation with the cosmic dance. When our breath is in harmony, cosmos nourishes us in every sense.

~ Amit Ray

If we want truth and justice to rule our global village, there must be no hypocrisy. If there is no truth, then there will be no equality. No equality, no justice. No justice, no peace. No peace, no love. No love, only darkness.

~ Suzy Kassem

Nonviolence is kindling light of love into the dark places and budding trust from the threshold of hopelessness.

~ Amit Ray

You are a valuable instrument in the orchestration of your own world, and the overall harmony of the universe.

~ Suzy Kassem

The objective of nonviolence is to create a beloved world community.

~ Amit Ray

This love meditation is adapted from the Visuddhimagga by Buddhaghosa, a 5th century C.E. systematization of the Buddha's teaching. We begin by practicing the love meditation on ourselves (May I). Until we are able to love and take care of ourselves, we cannot be much help to others. After that, we practice them on others (May he/she/they) - first on someone we like, then on someone neutral to us, and finally on someone who makes us suffer. May I be peaceful, happy, and light in body and spirit.May I be safe and free from injury.May I be free from anger, afflictions, fear and anxiety.May I learn to look at myself with the eyes of of understanding and love.May I be able to recognize and touch the seeds of joy and happiness in myself.May I learn to identify and see the sources of anger, craving, and delusion in myself.May I know how to nourish the seeds of joy in myself every day.May I be able to live fresh, solid, and free.May I be free from attachment and aversion, but not indifferent.Love is not just the intention to love, but the capacity to reduce suffering, and offer peace and happiness. The practice of love increases our forbearance, our capacity to be patient and embrace difficulties and pain. Forbearance does mean that we try to suppress pain.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Nonviolence is a way of life, where the task is to awaken the underlying goodness of every human being.

~ Amit Ray

Colonialism is the mother of terrorism.

~ Suzy Kassem

Peace of mind, joy at heart.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Are you for peace? The great test of your devotion to peace is not how many words you utter on its behalf. It’s not even how you propose to deal with people of other countries, though that certainly tells us something. To fully measure your “peacefulness” requires that we examine how you propose to treat people in your own backyard. Do you demand more of what doesn’t belong to you? Do you endorse the use of force to punish people for victimless “crimes”? Do you support politicians who promise to seize the earnings of others to pay for your bailout, your subsidy, your student loan, your child’s education or whatever pet cause or project you think is more important than what your fellow citizens might personally prefer to spend their own money on? Do you believe theft is OK if it’s for a good cause or endorsed by a majority? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then have the courage to admit that peace is not your priority. How can I trust your foreign policy if your domestic policy requires so much to be done at gunpoint?

~ Lawrence W. Reed

The best part of the gospel is you get to take it with you wherever your heart lands.

~ Shannon L. Alder

When you know what you want you will be excited about it and give every ounce of effort to making it come true. No excuse or fear will get in your way because peace is found in focus.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Synergy is the only true way to world peace. Any sort of division will cripple the beast of unity.

~ Suzy Kassem

There are many types of marriage relationships and all of them can work, but none is sadder than the one that doesn't represent peace in your heart.

~ Shannon L. Alder

We must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal we seek, but it is a means by which we arrive at that goal. We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means.

~ Martin Luther King Jr.

Christmas is the spirit of love, peace and goodwill to all Humankind.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Art is a positive FORCE that bring beings together for the common good. Only the people who had lost a piece of themselves can create the unimaginary.

~ Henry Johnson Jr

You’re going to mess up in life. We’re all going to do things and wonder why we did something so stupid. There’s going to be times we say things that leave us feeling regretful. We’re going to feel mad at ourselves and even shameful at our own actions. Never be too proud to say you’re sorry or I love you. These are easy words that strengthen our heart, and give us peace and wisdom.

~ Ron Baratono

God’s presence in our lives gives us peace and joy.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

New cells are born everyday and old cells die, but they have neither funerals nor birthdays.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.

~ Stanisław Jerzy Lec

Be the radiator of peace. Go to the center of your inner being. Radiate peace in every direction.

~ Amit Ray

You will know it is love not when you think about them all the time or want to be with them, but when you worry about them and you want their approval and happiness.

~ Shannon L. Alder

If anarchy is chaos, and chaos is war, why wasn't a single war started by anarchists?

~ Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski

The past few months have been the most serene of his adult life. The megalopolis in his mind has quieted to a country road. He does his work, he eats his bread, and he sleeps with the knowledge that today hasn't added to the sum of human misery. For now at least it's peace of a kind he hadn't imagined himself worthy of receiving.

~ Anthony Marra

He did not see the huge armies but the world divided into two opposites camps: the right and the wrong, the good and the evil, the aggressor and the defender, the unrighteous and the righteous, the arrogant and the humble. It is not the people who are inclined to fight against each other but the men who lead them. Humanity as a rule wants to relate with each other and wars are an exception to this rule.

~ Aporva Kala

If we danced and shared music, we'd be too busy en-joy-in' life to start a war.

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

In my dreams, I entered a world where success was based on ethics and proper dealings, not bribes and scams. My vision of sucess including marrying Sophia, having joyful children, unassuming friends, and warmhearted neighbors. I aspired for an environment where I would be valued for my good character, not the strength of my aggression. I wanted to leave West Beirut, the four square miles of a lesser world.

~ Sam Wazan

Come, Sleep; O Sleep! the certain knot of peace,The baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe,The poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release,Th' indifferent judge between the high and low;With shield of proof shield me from out the preaseOf those fierce darts Despair at me doth throw.

~ Philip Sidney

May God deliver humankind from power of darkness into the wonderful light.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Violence can only breed more violence and suffering. Our struggle must remain non-violent and free of hatred.

~ Dalai Lama Xiv