Making Peace Quotes - Page 6

• Our motto should be: let us make peace so that we can concentrate on the really important work that needs to be done. That is, alleviating the plight of the poor and the defenceless, for as long as most of humanity feels the pain of poverty we all remain prisoners.

  Nelson Mandela

  Pain, Long, Humanity

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• To make peace, our hearts must be at peace with the world.

  Nhat Hanh

  Heart, World

  Thich Nhat Hanh (1996). “Be Still and Know: Reflections from Living Buddha, Living Christ”, p.14, Penguin

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• I regret the ending of our friendship and hope one day before we die, we'll make peace with each other . . . No rush.

  Paul Simon

  Regret, One Day, Dies

  "Rock Hall of Fame enrolls new class" by Jamie Allen, www.cnn.com. March 20, 2001.

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• Be angry, it's okay. To be angry, that is very human. And to learn how to smile at your anger and make peace with your anger is very nice.

  Nhat Hanh

  Nice, Okay, Humans

  "Building a Community of Love: bell hooks and Thich Nhat Hanh". plumvillage.org. January 1, 2000.

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• We're not here to get over our humanness, but rather to accept and make peace with it... and to remember our Divine nature.

  Sonia Choquette

  Remember, Awareness, Divine

  Sonia Choquette (2009). “The Answer Is Simple...: Love Yourself, Live Your Spirit!: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.199, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• We only make peace with our enemies. That's why it's called making peace.

  George R. R. Martin

  Enemy

  "Fictional character: Petyr Baelish". "Game of Thrones". Season 1, Episode 7: "You Win or You Die", www.imdb.com. May 29, 2011.

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• "Be grateful to everyone" is about making peace with the aspects of ourselves that we have rejected... If we were to make a list of people we don't like - people we find obnoxious, threatening, or worthy of contempt - we would discover much about those aspects of ourselves that we can't face... other people trigger the karma that we haven't worked out.

  Pema Chodron

  Karma, Grateful, People

  "Start where You are: A Guide to Compassionate Living". Book by Pema Chodron, 1994.

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• You must find the strength to open the wounds, stick your hands inside, pull out the core of the pain that is holding you in your past, the memories, and make peace with them.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Pain, Memories, Past

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• Life is about growing, but it's also about making peace with who you are.

  Debby Ryan

  Growing, Life Is, Who You Are

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• Here I am, your one man circus freak show, having bled out for mother Russia, having desperately tried to get to you, now on top of you with this scourge marks, and you, who used to love me, who was sympathized, internalized, normalized everything, you are not allowed to turn away from me....this is what I am going to look like until the day I die. I can't get any peace from you ever unless you find away to make peace with this. Make peace with me. Or let me go for good.

  Paullina Simons

  Mother, Men, Russia

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• You don't make peace only with G-d. You make it with people. Sin isn't global. It's personal. If you do wrong to someone, the only way to fix that is to go to that same person and do right by him.

  Jodi Picoult

  People, Way, Sin

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.202, Simon and Schuster

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• When bitter enemies make peace, surely some bitterness remains.

  Laozi

  Enemy, Taoism, Bitterness

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• Christianity will only make a contribution to the future of Europe if it can prove that people like Sam Harris are wrong and that we can make peace.

  Timothy Radcliffe

  Europe, People, Christianity

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• Sometimes you are forced to defend your beliefs. Sometimes you are forced to look at relationships that aren't positive anymore. There are times when I have had to make peace with the fact that I am at war. And sometimes you have to fight those who do not want love to conquer all.

  Tori Amos

  Love, War, Fighting

  Tori Amos, Ann Powers (2008). “Tori Amos: Piece by Piece”, p.14, Crown Archetype

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• I'm starting to think, though, that some things never get that. The replay, and all. So at some point you have to make peace with it as it is, not keep waiting for a chance to change it

  Sarah Dessen

  Thinking, Waiting, Chance

  Sarah Dessen (2013). “The Moon and More”, p.176, Penguin

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• Hello, Uncle Brother Zachariah," James said without opening his eyes. "I would say that I'm sorry to bother you, but I'm sure this is the most excitement you've had all year. Not so lively in the City of Bones, now is it?" "James!" Will snapped. "Don't talk to Jem like that." "As if I am not used to badly behaved Herondales, Brother Zachariah said, in the way Jem had always tried to make peace between Will and the world.

  Cassandra Clare

  Brother, Uncles, Sorry

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan (2013). “The Midnight Heir”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• He who does not desire much more from things than knowledge of them easily makes peace with his soul.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Peace, Soul, Desire

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.48, Courier Corporation

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• You have to make peace with life

  Cheryl Ladd

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• You have to make peace with yourself. The key is to find the harmony in what you have.

  Naomi Watts

  Peace, Keys, Harmony

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It should therefore be difficult in a republic to declare war; but not to make peace.

  Joseph Story

  War, Republic, Should

  Joseph Story, Edmund H. Bennett (1858). “Commentaries on the Constitution of the Un. States: With a Prelim. Review of the Constitut. History of the Colonies and States, Bef. the Adoption of the Constitution”, p.97

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• Although wrongs have been done to me, I live in hopes. I have not got two hearts....Now we are together again to make peace. My shame is as big as the earth, although I will do what my friends have advised me to do. I once thought that I was the only man that persevered to be the friend of the white man, but since they have come and cleaned out our lodges, horses and everything else, it is hard for me to believe the white men any more.

  Black Kettle

  Horse, Believe, Native American

  "Who is the Savage?" by Black Kettle, www.pbs.org. 2001.

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• Make peace with your past - so it won't spoil the present!

  Denise Austin

  Inspirational, Peace, Past

  FaceBook post by Denise Austin from Jan 20, 2012

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• Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.

  John Milton

  Peace, Writing, Learning

  'Areopagitica' (1644) p. 31

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• In order to persuade Britain to pack up, to compel her to make peace, it was essential to rob her of her hope of being able still to confront us, on the continent itself, with an adversary of a stature equal to our own.

  Adolf Hitler

  Order, Essentials, Able

  "The Testament of Adolf Hitler: the Hitler-Bormann documents, February-April 1945". Book by Adolf Hitler, Martin Bormann, London: Cassell, (February 15, 1945), 1961.

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• On this International Day, let us promise to make peace not just a priority, but a passion. Let us pledge to do more, wherever we are in whatever way we can, to make every day a day of peace.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Peace, Passion, Priorities

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