World Peace Day Quotes

• World Peace Day is envisioned to become a moment of global unity - it is up to each and every one of us to make this a reality.

  Jeremy Gilley

  Reality, Unity, World

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• You can't find peace by avoiding life.

  Michael Cunningham

  Peace, Avoiding Death, Avoiding Pain

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• You cannot find peace by avoiding life, Leonard.

  Michael Cunningham

  Peace, Avoiding Death, Avoiding Pain

  "The Hours". www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• God of peace, bring your peace to our violent world: peace in the hearts of all men and women and peace among the nations of the Earth.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Heart, Men, World

  "The prayer of Pope Benedict XVI at Ground Zero". www.catholicworldreport.com. September 11, 2015.

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• Only the brave men and women can bring peace to the world, not by practicing war but by practicing nonviolence.

  Amit Ray

  War, Men, Brave

  Amit Ray (2012). “Nonviolence: The Transforming Power”, p.39, INNER LIGHT PUBLISHERS

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• There is no time left for anything but to make peace work a dimension of our every waking activity.

  Elise M. Boulding

  Peace, Humanity, Waking

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• We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

  Dalai Lama

  Motivational, Spiritual, Peace

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• If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.

  John Lennon

  Love, Life, Happiness

  Guitar Player, August 01, 2004.

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• First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Peace, Firsts, Tranquility

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  I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Faith, Peace

  "50 years after receiving Nobel Prize, do Martin Luther King's peace prophecies still resonate?", www.foxnews.com. October 12, 2014.

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• Peace is not merely an absence of war. It is also a state of mind.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Peace, War, Serenity

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• Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

  Song: Imagine, Album: The U.S. vs. John Lennon

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• We must be ready to learn from one another, not claiming that we alone possess all truth and that somehow we have a corner on God.

  Desmond Tutu

  Being Alone, Acceptance, Ready

  Desmond Tutu (2011). “God Is Not a Christian: And Other Provocations”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• Peace consists, very largely, in the fact of desiring it with all one's soul.

  Oscar Arias

  Peace, Soul, Facts

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• As they used to say 'What if they gave a war and nobody came?' How worthwhile if they declared a day of peace and everybody came.

  Ed Asner

  Peace, War, What If

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• Peace is the beauty of life. It is sunshine. It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother, the joy of a father, the togetherness of a family. It is the advancement of man, the victory of a just cause, the triumph of truth. Peace is all of these and more and more.

  Menachem Begin

  Family, Mother, Peace

  Menachem Begin, Harry Zvi Hurwitz, Yisrael Medad (2011). “Peace in the Making: The Menachem Begin - Anwar El-Sadat Personal Correspondence”, p.110, Gefen Publishing House Ltd

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• We like to put sacred texts in flowing waters, so I rolled it up, tied it to a piece of wood, placed a dandelion on top, and floated it in the stream which flows into the Swat River. Surely God would find it there.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Rivers, Water, Pieces

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• I refuse to accept the view . . . that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, Kings, Unconditional Love

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.116, Beacon Press

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• What if they gave a war and nobody came?

  Carl Sandburg

  War, What If, International Peace

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• Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspiring, Karma, Wise

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• Unconditional love will have the final word in reality.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, Kings, Truth

  Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Oslo, Norway, 10 Dec. 1964

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• World peace must develop from inner peace.

  Dalai Lama

  Inner Peace, World, Human Compassion

  "Yoga at the Pentagon With Tao Porchon-Lynch" by Dr. Terri Kennedy, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 28, 2012.

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• Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Respect, Appreciate

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.27, Heron Dance Press

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• Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Peace, War, May

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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

  Peace, Race, Wish

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

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