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• I don't think there's anything more important than making peace before it's too late. And it almost always falls to the child to try to move toward the parent.

  Jane Fonda

  Children, Moving, Fall

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• A great many people are trying to make peace, but that has already been done. God has not left it for us to do; all we have to do is to enter into it.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Christian, Peace, People

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• The greatest temptation for the like of us is: to renounce violence, to repent, to make peace with oneself. Most revolutionaries fell before this temptation, from Spartacus to Danton and Dostoevsky; they are the classical form of betrayal of the cause. The temptations of God were always more dangerous for mankind than those of Satan. As long as chaos dominates the world, God is an anachronism; and every compromise with one’s own conscience is perfidy. When the accursed inner voice speaks to you, hold your hands over your ears….

  Arthur Koestler

  Betrayal, Hands, Voice

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• Everything depends on the Americans. If they want to make war for 20 years then we shall make war for 20 years. If they want to make peace, we shall make peace and invite them to tea afterwards.

  Ho Chi Minh

  War, Years, Tea

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• War is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror. Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things. Only economic action has created the wealth around us; labor, not the profession of arms, brings happiness. Peace builds, war destroys.

  Ludwig von Mises

  War, Father, Essence

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.44, VM eBooks

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• Everything has a beginning and an ending. Make peace with that and all will be well...In life we cannot avoid change, we cannot avoid loss. Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change.

  Jack Kornfield

  Moving, Loss, Freedom And Happiness

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• Thoughts naturally arise. The point of meditation is not to banish thoughts but to make peace with them by realizing their lack of substance.

  Dan Millman

  Meditation, Substance, Realizing

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• When you make peace with yourself, the world will mirror back that same level of peace.

  Debbie Ford

  Mirrors, World, Levels

  Debbie Ford (2011). “Dark Side of the Light Chasers: Reclaiming your power, creativity, brilliance, and dreams”, p.63, Hachette UK

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• Why should the Arabs make peace? If I was an Arab leader I would never make terms with Israel. That is natural: we have taken their country. Sure God promised it to us, but what does that matter to them? Our God is not theirs.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Country, Taken, Israel

  "The Jewish Paradox". Book by Nahum Goldmann, translated by Steve Cox, p. 99, 1978.

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• It's one thing to make peace with the idea of something that's going to happen someday; it's another to find yourself at that day.

  Lee Unkrich

  Ideas, Finding Yourself, Someday

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• Making peace with one's truth is to live in one’s own moment, moving passionately forward in joy.

  Michelle Cruz

  Moving, Joy, Moments

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• We have to make peace with our limitations.

  Harold Lindsell

  Limitation

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• You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.

  Ulrich Beck

  War, Lines, Normal

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• If there is no peace in the minds of individuals, how can there be peace in the world? Make peace in your own mind first.

  S. N. Goenka

  Mind, World, Firsts

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• See to whom Jesus is drawing near, three kinds of people: to those who make peace with him, to those who are devoted to God, and to those who are kind to their neighbors.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Jesus, Drawing, People

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (2010). “The Academic Sermons (The Fathers of the Church, Mediaeval Continuation, Volume 11)”, p.48, CUA Press

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• Il est plus facile de faire la guerre que la paix. It is far easier to make war than to make peace.

  Georges Clemenceau

  War, Easier, Plus

  Speech at Verdun, 20 July 1919, in 'Discours de Paix' (1938) p. 122

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• Isn't it strange how the leaders of nations can talk so eloquently about peace while they prepare for war? ... There is no way to make peace while preparing for war.

  Coretta Scott King

  War, Leader, Way

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• We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.

  Jean-Bertrand Aristide

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• I just want my kids to love who they are, have happy lives and find something they want to do and make peace with that. Your job as a parent is to give your kids not only the instincts and talents to survive, but help them enjoy their lives.

  Susan Sarandon

  Jobs, Kids, Happy Life

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• There will always be a part of you that misses her. You'll see something that reminds you of her and want to tell her about it, only to realize she's not there anymore. Then you'll feel her loss all over again. (Ravyn) You're not helping me, Ravyn. (Jack) I know, buddy. But you will eventually make peace with yourself, and that's the most important thing. Eventually, you'll even be able to smile again when you think about her. (Ravyn)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Loss, Thinking, Missing

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• The perfect family doesn't exist, nor is there a perfect husband or a perfect wife, and let's not talk about the perfect mother-in-law! It's just us sinners. A healthy family life requires frequent use of three phrases: "May I? Thank you, and I'm sorry" and "never, never, never end the day without making peace."

  Pope Francis

  Mother, Sorry, Husband

  "Pope Francis' top 10 most quotable quotes of the year" by Carol Glatz, www.catholicnews.com. February 28, 2014.

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• Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as we are. We will ruin reality.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Strong, Reality, Research

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• Make peace with the universe. Take joy in it. It will turn to gold. Resurrection will be now. Every moment, a new beauty.

  Rumi

  Peace, Joy, Soul

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• To make peace, one must be an uncompromising leader. To make peace, one must also embody compromise.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Women, Empowering, Leader

  "Architects of Peace: Visions of Hope in Words and Images". Book by Michael Collopy, 2000.

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• Make peace with the universe. Take joy in it.

  Rumi

  Joy, Universe

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