Peace Quotes

Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

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.

An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.

Peace begins with a smile..

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

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.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.

Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day:
- I shall not fear anyone on Earth.
- I shall fear only God.
- I shall not bear ill will toward anyone.
- I shall not submit to injustice from anyone.
- I shall conquer untruth by truth. And in resisting untruth, I shall put up with all suffering.

When I say it's you I like, I'm talking about that part of you that knows that life is far more than anything you can ever see or hear or touch. That deep part of you that allows you to stand for those things without which humankind cannot survive. Love that conquers hate, peace that rises triumphant over war, and justice that proves more powerful than greed.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

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

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.

Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.

Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?

The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.

The world is quiet here.

Peace comes from within.  Do not seek it without.

Books are finite, sexual encounters are finite, but the desire to read and to fuck is infinite; it surpasses our own deaths, our fears, our hopes for peace.

Keep your best wishes, close to your heart and watch what happens

Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world's problems?

Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on.

Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything - anger, anxiety, or possessions - we cannot be free.

When Great Trees Fall
When great trees fall,
rocks on distant hills shudder,
lions hunker down
in tall grasses,
and even elephants
lumber after safety.
When great trees fall
in forests,
small things recoil into silence,
their senses
eroded beyond fear.
When great souls die,
the air around us becomes
light, rare, sterile.
We breathe, briefly.
Our eyes, briefly,
see with
a hurtful clarity.
Our memory, suddenly sharpened,
examines,
gnaws on kind words
unsaid,
promised walks
never taken.
Great souls die and
our reality, bound to
them, takes leave of us.
Our souls,
dependent upon their
nurture,
now shrink, wizened.
Our minds, formed
and informed by their
radiance,
fall away.
We are not so much maddened
as reduced to the unutterable ignorance
of dark, cold
caves.
And when great souls die,
after a period peace blooms,
slowly and always
irregularly. Spaces fill
with a kind of
soothing electric vibration.
Our senses, restored, never
to be the same, whisper to us.
They existed. They existed.
We can be. Be and be
better. For they existed.

Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.

There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.

It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters,

You have peace," the old woman said, "when you make it with yourself.

You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.

If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.

The Peace of Wild Things
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

Peace is more than the absence of war. Peace is accord. Harmony.

Peace is always beautiful.

Even if things don't unfold the way you expected, don't be disheartened or give up. One who continues to advance will win in the end.

Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.

The Simple Path
Silence is Prayer
Prayer is Faith
Faith is Love
Love is Service
The Fruit of Service is Peace

If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none. Let him forget there is such a thing as war. If the government is inefficient, top-heavy, and tax-mad, better it be all those than that people worry over it. Peace, Montag. Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs or the names of state capitals or how much corn Iowa grew last year. Cram them full of noncombustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. Then they'll feel they're thinking, they'll get a
sense
of motion without moving. And they'll be happy, because facts of that sort don't change.

To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is...at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away...

It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.

Many people think excitement is happiness.... But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.

A quiet conscience makes one strong!

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.

Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace
You may say that 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

As long as Man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings, he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love.

and when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful.

I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats.

If you love me as you say you do,' she whispered, 'make it so that I am at peace.

You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.