Peaceful Quotes - Page 23

• At one point, I was just perceived as only being angry, but now I'm being perceived as angry, peaceful, and spiritual.

  Alanis Morissette

  Love, Spiritual, Peace

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• I was motivated by just thinking that if you had all this external success that everyone would love you and everything would be peaceful and wonderful.

  Alanis Morissette

  Love, Peace, Thinking

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• Make no mistake: peaceful madmen are ahead of the future.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Mistake, Madmen

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• Then Scale by scale, We strip off The delicacy And eat The peaceful mush Of its green heart.

  Pablo Neruda

  Heart, Delicacy, Green

  Pablo Neruda, “Ode To The Artichoke”

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• If someone offends you, don't tell anyone about it except your elder, and you will be peaceful. Bow to everyone, paying no attention whether they respond to your bow or not. You must humble yourself before everyone and consider yourself the worst of all. If we have not committed the sins that others have, perhaps this is because we did not have the opportunity - the situation and circumstances were different. In each person there is something good and something bad; we usually see only the vices in people and we see nothing that is good.

  Ambrose

  Humble, Humility, Opportunity

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• When you begin your transcendental training, focusing your best efforts, without attachment to outcomes, you will understand the peaceful warrior's way.

  Dan Millman

  Attitude, Warrior, Attachment

  Dan Millman (2009). “Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives”, p.208, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I want a world without war. War never works it just kills. I want my children to never have to have a close contact with war. I want my children and future generations to grow up free and in a peaceful world. War is not freedom it is a malignant force imposed by men in power. We must change the views of people in power now and let them know that in a diplomatic and peaceful way issues can be solved.

  Ana Martin

  Children, Growing Up, War

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• As long as people overlook matters, then inferiors can, without any fear, lead an easy and peaceful life.

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  War, Long, People

  Tsunetomo Yamamoto, Justin F. Stone, Minoru Tanaka (2001). “Bushido: The Way of the Samurai”, p.18, Square One Publishers, Inc.

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• It is frightening that in recent years such an increase has occurred in acts of terrorism, which have even reached peaceful countries such as ours. And as a "remedy", more and more security forces are established to protect the lives of individual men and women.

  Alva Myrdal

  Country, Men, Years

  Alva Myrdal's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1982.

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• The attacks in Jordan, just like those before it in Indonesia, Egypt, Spain and the United States, demonstrate that terrorism does not discriminate by race, ethnicity or region. Instead, terrorists indiscriminately target those seeking to live a peaceful, loving and free life.

  Allyson Schwartz

  Loving Life, Race, Egypt

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• When one past thought has ceased and a future thought has not yet risen,
  in that gap, in between, isn't there a consciousness of the present moment;
  fresh, virgin, unaltered by even a hair's breadth of a concept, a luminous, naked awareness?
  Well, that's what naturally peaceful awareness is.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Past, Hair, Meditation

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• A non-violent revolution is not a program of seizure of power. It is a program of transformation of relationships, ending in a peaceful transfer of power.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Justice, Diversity, Culture

  Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.40, New Directions Publishing

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• If your home environment is good and peaceful and easy, your life is better and easier.

  Lori Greiner

  Inspiring, Home, Life Is

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• In a world of danger and trial, peace is our deepest aspiration, and when peace comes we will gladly convert not our swords into plowshares, but our bombs into peaceful reactors, and our planes into space vessels. "Pursue peace," the Bible tells us, and we shall pursue it with every effort and every energy that we possess. But it is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, War, Space

  Speech at Civic Auditorium, Seattle, Washington, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. September 06, 1960.

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• A mother's love is like an island, In life's ocean vast and wide, A peaceful, quiet shelter, From the restless, rising tide.

  Helen Steiner Rice

  Family, Mother, Ocean

  Helen Steiner Rice (2003). “Especially for Mothers”, Barbour Publishing

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• Atmosphere is a silent music. It has its effect upon the listener, exciting or peaceful, whatever it may be.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Atmosphere, May, Silent

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1960). “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: The Gathas”, p.112, Library of Alexandria

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• It is the peaceful one who is observant. It is peace that gives him the power to observe keenly. It is the peaceful one, therefore, who can conceive, for peace helps him to conceive. It is the peaceful who can contemplate; one who has no peace cannot contemplate properly. Therefore, all things pertaining to spiritual progress in life depend upon peace.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Spiritual, Giving, Progress

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1973). “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: The Way of Illumination”, p.307, Library of Alexandria

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• I remember listening to the radio as a kid and finding that the songs always made me feel more peaceful. Funny, but the more hurtin' the music was, the better it made me feel. I think of that now when I write my songs. I may not be feelin' the blues myself, but I'm writing them for other people who have a hard life.

  Chris Isaak

  Song, Writing, Kids

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• I go into the locker room and find a corner and just sit there. I try to achieve a peaceful state of nothingness that will carry over onto the golf course. If I can get that feeling of quiet and obliviousness within myself, I feel I can't lose.

  Jane Blalock

  Golf, Feelings, Trying

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• Every thought, every word, and every action that adds to the positive and the wholesome is a contribution to peace. Each and every one of us is capable of making such a contribution. Let us join hands to try to create a peaceful world where we can sleep in security and wake in happiness.

  Aung San

  Sleep, Hands, Trying

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• You can choose to be peaceful right here and now ... it has nothing to do with what other people do or think.

  Gerald Jampolsky

  Stress, Divorce, Thinking

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• We will make every effort with utmost sincerity to achieve a peaceful reunification of the country.

  Hu Jintao

  Love, Country, Peace

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• 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

  War, Mean, Autumn

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• May we soon enjoy the fruits of our labor in a peaceful and united Germany.

  Walter Ulbricht

  Love, Peace, Germany

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• And see the peaceful trees extend their myriad leaves in leisured dance- they bear the weight of sky and cloud upon the fountain of their veins.

  Kathleen Raine

  Clouds, Sky, Tree

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