Peaceful Quotes

You better not be touched by love; you are living peacefully. But if you do, you better not be left by it. Because The Wounded in love is only shreds of heart scattered. Even if you manage to regain your heart, you will never be that peaceful person again. Such is the curse of love.

~ Heenashree Khandelwal

Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented, and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful. Such attitudes are active and definite factors in creating satisfactory conditions. Watch your manner of speech then if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind.

~ Norman Vincent Peale

Decide in your heart to be at peace with all men.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Peaceful, lawful protest - if it is effective - is innately disruptive of 'business as usual.' That is why it is effective.

~ Naomi Wolf

The United Nations is our one great hope for a peaceful and free world.

~ Ralph Bunche

I'm a very contented, peaceful man. I made mistakes, yes, but I accepted them, and, I hope, graciously.

~ Don Ameche

Even in the most peaceful communities, an appetite for violence shows up in dreams, fantasies, sports, play, literature, movies and television. And, so long as we don't transform into angels, violence and the threat of violence - as in punishment and deterrence - is needed to rein in our worst instincts.

~ Paul Bloom

We believe in peace in the settlement of all disputes through peaceful means, in the abolition of war, and, more particularly, nuclear war.

~ Lal Bahadur Shastri

I also hear your president say that war is the means of last resort and I think he means that. I met him last autumn and he assured me that they wanted to come through and disarm Iraq by peaceful means, and that's what we are trying to do as hard as we can.

~ Hans Blix

Bora Bora is peaceful and quiet, but fun, so full of cool activities and more; spiritual to the core, and you leave with fully recharged batteries.

~ Gilles Marini

Nothing is as peaceful as when Christmas is over, when one has been forgiven for everything and can be normal again.

~ Tove Jansson

Before I became famous I had a very full life, and that gave me a lot to pick from. I always use everything. It always comes in handy. Working with animals... Well, I just enjoyed that. That was the most peaceful time.

~ Cyndi Lauper

Mother Nature is always speaking. She speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of the sincere observer. Leopards, cobras, monkeys, rivers and trees; they all served as my teachers when I lived as a wanderer in the Himalayan foothills.

~ Radhanath Swami

The scientists who attack mainstream religion, rather than striving for peaceful coexistence with it, damage science, and also weaken the fight against fundamentalism.

~ Martin Rees

Our firm conviction that ours is a just cause and that we must find a peaceful way to attain our goals gave us the strength and the awareness of the limits beyond which we must not go.

~ Lech Walesa

My liberty is about living. It's about spreading more love. Even though I was always a peaceful, loving individual, my music sometimes didn't reflect that. But now it's different. My music is reflecting the way I feel.

~ Snoop Dogg

Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a target for the criticism of unkind and hostile minds.

~ Felix Adler

I firmly believe that the mission of religion in the 21st century must be to contribute concretely to the peaceful coexistence of humankind.

~ Daisaku Ikeda

Islam is a peaceful religion.

~ Youssou N'dour

We can't forget what happened on May 4th, 1970, when four students gave up their lives because they had the American constitutional right of peaceful protest. They gave up their lives. And to sing that song in that spot on that anniversary was very emotional for us.

~ Graham Nash

I never camped as a kid, but I really got into camping and sleeping outdoors. I've also done some amazing river floats in New Mexico and Idaho. It's peaceful and awesome.

~ Conor Oberst

I think more tolerance, more people having more access to a chance to be literate, and a chance to stay healthy makes for a more peaceful planet.

~ Henry Rollins

All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

~ Meister Eckhart

Skydiving is special because it's almost the closest to an out-of-body experience you can have. We live in such a stimulated, connected, busy world - to be up in the air with nothing but yourself and the landscape is incredibly peaceful.

~ Georgia King

Deep experience is never peaceful.

~ Henry James

A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.

~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

At that time, the army leadership said the implementation of this agreement would allow everyone, including the IRA, to take its political objectives forward by peaceful and democratic means.

~ Gerry Adams

The Journey of Reconciliation was organized not only to devise techniques for eliminating Jim Crow in travel, but also as a training ground for similar peaceful projects against discrimination in such major areas as employment and in the armed services.

~ Bayard Rustin

I like to be as positive and as peaceful as possible, but reality says, you know, sometimes you get mad, sometimes you get antsy, sometimes you get aggravated.

~ Musiq Soulchild

China has been committed to the independent foreign policy of peace and has developed friendship and cooperation with all countries on the basis of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence.

~ Hu Jintao

Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.

~ Ronald Reagan

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

~ John F. Kennedy

Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute. So that view is very helpful to maintain a peace of mind because the main destroyer of a peaceful mind is anger.

~ Dalai Lama

Cross the meadow and the stream and listen as the peaceful water brings peace upon your soul.

~ Maximillian Degenerez

For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual.

~ Irving Babbitt

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

~ Friedrich Schiller

We believe in peace and peaceful development, not only for ourselves but for people all over the world.

~ Lal Bahadur Shastri

There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy.

~ J. D. Salinger

Peace can be promoted by the limitation of arms and by the creation of the instrumentality for peaceful settlement of controversies. But it will become a reality only through self-restraint and active effort in friendliness and helpfulness.

~ Herbert Hoover

China pays a great deal of attention to the Korean nuclear issue. We stand for achieving denuclearization of the peninsula in a peaceful way through dialogue and consultation to maintain peace and stability of the peninsula and Northeast Asia.

~ Hu Jintao