Peace Quotes - Page 36

• When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Forgiveness, Honesty, Integrity

  Eleanor Roosevelt (2007). “The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers: The human rights years, 1945-1948”, Charles Scribner's Sons

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• It is more difficult to organize a peace than to win a war; but the fruits of victory will be lost if the peace is not organized.

  Aristotle

  War, Winning, Humanity

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• Peace, or freedom from conflict, is the absolute core of happiness. It is in learning to watch our sense of peace that we avoid unhappiness. All forms of misery are heralded by a frame of mind that must become immediately recognizable if we are ever to gain mastery in happiness...Take the time to look in your heart and be clear. Walk through life being clear. Practice doing each thing in peace.

  Hugh Prather

  Happiness, Heart, Passion

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• Don't tell me peace has broken out.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Broken

  Mother Courage sc. 8 (1939)

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• Peace is the whole truth that wishes to enrapture humanity. War is the whole falsehood that wants to capture humanity. Peace begins in the soul and ends in the heart. War begins in the mind and ends in the body.

  Sri Chinmoy

  War, Heart, Soul

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• Peace is something that we become. Once we become peace, then only can we give peace to the world and receive peace from the world.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Giving, World

  Sri Chinmoy (2014). “The Oneness of the Eastern Heart and the Western Mind: An Introduction to Eastern Philosophy and Yoga”, p.1329, Aum Publications

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• Power to the peaceful!

  Michael Franti

  Love, Peaceful

  Song: Bomb the World, Album: Everyone Deserves Music

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• We put labels on people and fight wars over them. If we truly want harmony, we have to get past the labels.

  Wayne Dyer

  War, Fighting, Past

  Dyer, Wayne (2005). “Everyday Wisdom”, p.192, Hay House, Inc

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• No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.--Harry Emerson FosdickNo one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Stress, Inner Peace

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• Peace is not merely the absence of visible conflict. Only a just peace based on the inherent rights and dignity of every individual can truly be lasting.

  Barack Obama

  Rights, Dignity, Conflict

  Nobel Prize for Peace Acceptance Speech and Lecture, delivered 10 December 2009, Oslo City Hall, Oslo, Norway

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• What is to give light must endure burning.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Viktor E Frankl (2012). “The Doctor and the Soul: From Psychotherapy to Logotherapy”, p.57, Souvenir Press

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• If you love the justice of Jesus Christ more than you fear human judgment then you will seek to do compassion. Compassion means that if I see my friend and my enemy in equal need, I shall help them both equally. Justice demands that we seek and find the stranger, the broken, the prisoner and comfort them and offer them our help. Here lies the holy compassion of God that causes the devils much distress.

  Mechthild of Magdeburg

  Jesus, Lying, Mean

  Sue Woodruff, Mechthild (of Magdeburg) (1982). “Meditations with Mechtild of Magdeburg”, Bear & Co

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• My therapist told me the way to achieve true inner peace is to finish what I start. So far today, I have finished 2 bags of M&M's and a chocolate cake. I feel better already.

  Dave Barry

  Inspirational, Funny, Fitness

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• If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.

  Winston Churchill

  Race, Wish, Way

  Winston Churchill (1961). “The Unwritten Alliance: Speeches 1953 to 1959”

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• Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Forgiveness, Emotional

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage”, p.131, Random House

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• How powerful prayer is! May we never lose the courage to say: Lord, give us your peace.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Religious, Prayer

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• You are the strongest when relaxed and at peace

  Mario Teguh

  Strength, Being Strong, Strongest

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• When we understand clearly that inner peace is the real source of happiness, and how, through spiritual practice, we can experience progressively deeper levels of inner peace, we will develop tremendous enthusiasm to practice

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

  Kelsang Gyatso (2001). “Transform Your Life: A Blissful Journey”, p.9, Tharpa Publications UK

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• We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.

  Albert Camus

  War, Realizing, Wonder

  Albert Camus (1963). “Notebooks”

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• Peace, in the sense of the absence of war, is of little value to someone who is dying of hunger or cold. It will not remove the pain of torture inflicted on a prisoner of conscience. It does not comfort those who have lost their loved ones in floods caused by senseless deforestation in a neighboring country. Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where the people are fed, and where individuals and nations are free.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Country, Buddhist

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• One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.

  Peace Pilgrim

  People, Giving, Historical

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.99, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Freedom, War

  Address on first anniversary of Alliance for Progress, 13 Mar. 1962

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• The real differences around the world today are not between Jews and Arabs; Protestants and Catholics; Muslims, Croats, and Serbs. The real differences are between those who embrace peace and those who would destroy it. Between those who look to the future and those who cling to the past. Between those who open their arms and those who are determined to clench their fists.

  William J. Clinton

  Real, Past, Differences

  Clinton, William J (1998). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1997”, p.1816, Best Books on

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• Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give - pleasure, possessions, power - but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy.

  Dada Vaswani

  Happiness, Happy, Uplifting

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• The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

  Jane Addams

  Inspiring, Equality, Community

  Jane Addams (2012). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.76, Courier Corporation

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