True Peace Quotes - Page 2

• When we speak of peace, we should not mean just the absence of war. True peace rests on the pillars of individual freedom, human rights, national self-determination, and respect for the rule of law.

  Ronald Reagan

  Determination, Freedom, War

  Ronald Reagan (2004). “Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches”, p.249, Simon and Schuster

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Without true chaos, we can never have true peace.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Chaos

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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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• There is no true peace without fairness, truth, justice and solidarity.

  Pope John Paul II

  Peace, Justice, Fairness

  Pope John Paul II's Message for the celebration of XXXIII World Day of Peace, w2.vatican.va. December 8, 1999.

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• There is a transcendent awareness, a Big Mind, a Big Heart, present and readily accessible to each and every one of us. When we realize it, we see it is the source of true peace, happiness, satisfaction, courage and joy.

  Dennis Merzel

  Heart, Thinking, Joy

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• Live in such a way that you embody true peace, that you can be peace in every moment of your daily life.  It is possible for everyone to generate the energy of peace in every step.

  Nhat Hanh

  Energy, Way, Steps

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2004). “Creating True Peace: Ending Violence in Yourself, Your Family, Your Community, and the World”, p.203, Simon and Schuster

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• For the Christian tradition, the heart's true home is a life rooted in the love of God. Like Lao-tzu and Dorothy both, Christian wisdom about stability points us toward the true peace that is possible when our spirits are stilled and our feet are planted in a place we know to be holy ground.

  Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

  Christian, Home, Heart

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• We are meant to be one. And only after we realize that amazing truth can we find what we need - true peace.

  Steve Goodier

  Needs, Realizing, Meant To Be

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• When we are at peace with ourselves the total expression of that true peace includes our outer being; our body.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Peace, Expression, Body

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• When you understand the roots of anger in yourself and in the other, your mind will enjoy true peace, joy and lightness

  Nhat Hanh

  Roots, Joy, Mind

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Teachings on Love: Easyread Edition”, p.29, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The very basis of true peace of mind is a benevolent wish to see all the world as happy as one's self.

  Susanna Rowson

  Compassion, Self, Mind

  Susanna Rowson (2015). “Charlotte Temple”, p.33, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• It thou seek rest in this life, how wilt thou then attain to the everlasting rest? Dispose not thyself for much rest, but for great patience. Seek true peace--not in earth, but in heaven; not in men, nor in any other creature, but in God alone.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Men, Heaven, Earth

  Thomas a Kempis (2013). “The Imitation of Christ; Or, the Ecclesiastical Music”, p.194, Cambridge University Press

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• Churches may decay and perish; riches may make themselves wings and fly away-but he who builds their happiness on Christ crucified and union with Him by faith, that person is standing on a foundation which shall never be moved, and will know something of true peace.

  J. C. Ryle

  Wings, Church, Foundation

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