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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• Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.

  Elie Wiesel

  Inspirational, Hope, Positivity

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• Sacredness of human life! The world has never believed it! It has been with life that we settled our quarrels, won wives, gold and land, defended ideas, imposed religions. We have held that a death toll was a necessary part of every human achievement, whether sport, war or industry. A moment's rage over the horror of it, and we have sunk into indifference.

  Ida Tarbell

  Sports, War, Ubuntu

  Ida Minerva Tarbell (1916). “New Ideals in Business, an Account of Their Practice and Their Effects Upon Men and Profits”

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• Why does man have reason if he can only be influenced by violence?

  Leo Tolstoy

  Men, Ubuntu, Doe

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• This was the tree, and it seemed to me standing there to resemble those men, the giants of your childhood, whom you encounter years later and find that they are not merely smaller in relation to your growth, but they are absolutely smaller, shrunken by age. In this double demotion the old giants have become pygmies while you were looking the other way.

  John Knowles

  Men, Years, Childhood

  John Knowles (2014). “A Separate Peace”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• What is peace? Is it war? No. Is it strife? No. Is it lovely, and gentle, and beautiful, and pleasant, and serene, and joyful? O yes!

  Charles Dickens

  Beautiful, War, Lovely

  Charles Dickens (1867). “Bleak House”, p.150

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• There has always been a longing in the human heart for a more just, free, loving and creative society. But it was never before possible to fulfill these aspirations, because we had neither the evolutionary drivers and global crises to force us to change, nor did we have the scientific and technological powers that can free us from the limitations of scarcity, poverty, disease, and ignorance. This is the time of awakening for the social potential movement.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  Time, Heart, Creativity

  FaceBook post by Barbara Marx Hubbard from Mar 03, 2014

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• The thing I would like to do most is to find somehow to bring peace to the world. It has eluded me.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Humanity, World

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• If we want to reap the harvest of peace and justice in the future, we will have to sow seeds of nonviolence, here and now, in the present.

  Mairead Corrigan

  Inspirational, Future, Justice

  Mairead Corrigan Maguire (2010). “The Vision of Peace: Faith and Hope in Northern Ireland”, p.19, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Affirmation, Passive, Negation

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something.

  John Lennon

  Love, Motivational, Thinking

  John Lennon, Yōko Ono, David Sheff, G. Barry Golson (1981). “The Playboy interviews with John Lennon and Yōko Ono”, Putnam Pub Group

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