“Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.”
― Albert Einstein
“If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.”
― John Lennon
“Peace begins with a smile..”
― Mother Teresa
“An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
“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 live as one.”
― John Lennon
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I’ll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about.”
― Rumi
“Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.”
― George Carlin
“Dogs are our link to paradise. They don’t know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring–it was peace.”
― Milan Kundera
“If someone thinks that peace and love are just a cliche that must have been left behind in the 60s, that’s a problem. Peace and love are eternal.”
― John Lennon
“Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.”
― Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
“The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
“Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
“Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.”
― Gautama Buddha
“Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The day I understood everything, was the day I stopped trying to figure everything out. The day I knew peace was the day I let everything go.”
― C. JoyBell C.
“Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.”
― Albert Schweitzer
“Peace is always beautiful.”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
“Peace is the only battle worth waging.”
― Albert Camus
“World peace must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just mere absence of violence. Peace is, I think, the manifestation of human compassion.”
― Dalai Lama XIV
“The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.”
― Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
“Instead of hating the people you think are war-makers, hate the appetites and disorder in your own soul, which are the causes of war. If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed – but hate these things in yourself, not in another.”
― Thomas Merton, New Seeds of Contemplation
“I have lived with several Zen masters — all of them cats.”
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
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