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Without access to true chaos, we'll never have true peace. Unless everything can get worse, it won't get any better.

Chuck Palahniuk

Chaos, Choke, Access

Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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Chemistry itself knows altogether too well that - given the real fear that the scarcity of global resources and energy might threaten the unity of mankind - chemistry is in a position to make a contribution towards securing a true peace on earth.

Kenichi Fukui

Real, Unity, Earth

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True peace can rarely be imposed from the outside; it must be born within and between communities through meetings and dialogue and then carried outward.

Jean Vanier

Community, Born, Dialogue

Jean Vanier (2003). “Finding Peace”, p.16, A&C Black

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Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within.

Sandra Cisneros

Revenge, Compassion, Thinking

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Only he to whom God is present in everything and who employs his reason in the highest degree and has enjoyment in it knows anything of true peace and has a real kingdom of heaven.

Meister Eckhart

Peace, Real, Heaven

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This should be a true peace, which leads to the end of occupation and aggression, to the return of refugees to their homes, to the destruction of the dividing wall, and the establishment of a political status for East Jerusalem.

Khaled Mashal

Wall, Home, Political

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Until you're willing to accept what already is - the things of your past that you can't change - there's no space for you to create what you want. Acceptance is the key to unlocking the door to true peace, happiness, and freedom.

Hal Elrod

Gratitude, Acceptance, Past

FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from May 09, 2011

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True peace of mind can be obtained only when one is personally awakened to the stark-naked fact that every effort is ultimately in vain.

Zenkei Shibayama

Effort, Mind, Naked

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Peace is not just the absence of war. True peace depends upon creating the opportunity that makes life worth living. And to do that, we must confront the common enemies of human beings: nuclear weapons and poverty; ignorance and disease.

Barack Obama

War, Ignorance, Opportunity

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Francis of Assisi tells us we should work to build peace. But there is no true peace without truth! There cannot be true peace if everyone is his own criterion, if everyone can always claim exclusively his own rights, without at the same time caring for the good of others, of everyone, on the basis of the nature that unites every human being on this earth.

Pope Francis

Caring, Rights, Earth

Pope Francis (2016). “Care for Creation: A Call for Ecological Conversion”, p.58, Orbis Books

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For true peace of mind we must acknowledge whatever fault we live upon, whatever time bomb ticks in our closet, and enjoy our Shangri-la nonetheless. It isn't the absence of the problem; it is how one lives in its presence that matters.

Chungliang Al Huang

Mind, Bombs, Matter

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To those who seek to protect their ego true Peace brings only disturbance.

Anthony de Mello

Ego, Protect, Disturbance

"One Minute Nonsense". Book by Anthony de Mello, p. 33, 1992.

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Without true chaos, we can never have true peace.

Chuck Palahniuk

Chaos

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Israel will never get true security and safety through oppressing another people. A true peace can ultimately be built only on justice. We condemn the violence of suicide bombers, and we condemn the corruption of young minds taught hatred; but we also condemn the violence of military incursions in the occupied lands, and the inhumanity that won't let ambulances reach the injured.

Desmond Tutu

Suicide, Military, Land

"Apartheid in the Holy Land". www.theguardian.com. April 29, 2002.

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One man watches a river flow by. If he does not wish it to flow, to change ceaselessly in accord with its nature, he will suffer great pain. Another man understands that nature of the river is to change constantly, regardless of his likes and dislikes, and therefore he does not suffer. To know existence as this flow, empty of lasting pleasure, void of self, is to find that which is stable and free of suffering, to find true peace in the world.

Ajahn Chah

Pain, Men, Self

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True peace is not a balance of opposing forces, and it is not ‘a lovely façade’ simply covering conflicts and divisions. Rather, peace calls for daily commitment -- it's homemade -- starting from God's gift, from the grace which he has given us in Jesus Christ.

Pope Francis

Jesus, Commitment, Grace

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If we [are to] reach a situation of true peace, real peace, peace for generations, we will have to make painful concessions.
Not in exchange for promises, but rather in exchange for peace.

Ariel Sharon

Inspirational, Business, Real

"Report: Sharon willing to make 'painful concessions'", edition.cnn.com. April 13, 2003.

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The true peace of God begins at any spot a thousand miles from the nearest land.

Joseph Conrad

Ocean, Sea, Land

Joseph Conrad (1962). “The Nigger of the 'Narcissus'”, p.25, Gottfried & Fritz

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It is a fair trade and an equal exchange: to the extent that you depart from things, thus far, no more and no less, God enters into you with all that is his, as far as you have stripped yourself of yourself in all things. It is here that you should begin, whatever the cost, for it is here that you will find true peace, and nowhere else.

Meister Eckhart

Spiritual, Cost, Should

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Peace is more than just an absence of war. True peace is justice, true peace is freedom, and true peace dictates the recognition of human rights.

Ronald Reagan

Freedom, War, Rights

United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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On many occasions I have been asked if I think persecution will come to the Western church. My answer might surprise you. I believe that if you find yourself enslaved inside a controlling church structure of legalism and bondage, then you are already being persecuted! So many Christians seem impossibly distracted from hearing God's voice. Instead of listening to that still, small voice that brings true peace and joy, they blindly follow the voices of mainstream religion. The worst kind of persecution for a Christian is when you are separated from the joy and presence of the Holy Spirit.

Brother Yun

Christian, Believe, Thinking

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I dont know that I want to act 15 years from now. I mean, I love the process of acting, but not the masochism. No matter how successful you get in Hollywood, you cannot rest. Your new movie doesn't open well; they're looking for the next person to replace you; it's always something. You never have true peace.

Emma Caulfield

Mean, Successful, Years

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Peace is something tangible. It silences the outgoing energy of the mind and feeds the aspiring heart. Peace is not merely the absence of quarreling and fighting. True peace is not affected by the roaring of the world, outer or inner. This sea of peace is at our command if we practise the spiritual life.

Sri Chinmoy

Spiritual, Heart, Fighting

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Right human relations is the only true peace.

Alice Bailey

Peace, Relation, Humans

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I honestly believe that this is one of the greatest secrets to true peace of mind -- a decent sense of values. We could annihilate 50 percent of all our worries at once if we would develop a sort of private gold standard -- a gold standard of what things are worth to us in terms of our lives.

Dale Carnegie

Believe, Worry, Secret

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