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So let us persevere. Peace need not be impracticable, and war need not be inevitable. By defining our goal more clearly, by making it seem more manageable and less remote, we can help all peoples to see it, to draw hope from it, and to move irresistibly toward it. – John F. Kennedy
We do not want riches, we want peace and love. – Red Cloud
Every human longs for peace and love. – Hiawatha
Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset. – Saint Francis de Sales
Love and peace of mind do protect us. They allow us to overcome the problems that life hands us. They teach us to survive… to live now… to have the courage to confront each day. – Bernie Siegel
When the power of love overcomes the love of power there will be peace. – Sri Chinmoy
Love — giving and receiving from the heart — involves … peace – Richard Carlson
I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it. – Dwight D. Eisenhower
The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence. – Norman Vincent Peale
Without justice and love, peace will always be the great illusion. – Archbishop Helder Pessoa Camara
The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things. – Peace Pilgrim
You’ll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart. – George Michael
Yesterday is gone and its tale told. Today new seeds are growing. – Rumi
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. – Martin Luther King Jr.
Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace. – Dalai Lama
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
Peace between countries must rest on the solid foundation of love between individuals. – Mahatma Gandhi
Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage. – Maya Angelou
Love does more than bring peace where there is conflict. It brings a different way of being in the world. – Gary Zukav
Every act of love is a work of peace no matter how small. – Mother Teresa
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be. – Wayne W. Dyer
The very first step in nonviolence is that we cultivate in our daily life, as between ourselves, truthfulness, humility, tolerance, loving kindness. – Gandhi
If you are depressed you are living in the past if you are anxious you are living in the future, if you are at peace, you are living in the present. – Lao Tzu
Peace and love are ever in us, being and working; but we be not alway in peace and in love. – Julian of Norwich
We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace. – William E. Gladstone
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level. – Eckhart Tolle
Love is the purest form of a soul at peace. – Matthew Donnelly
There are two things that cannot be achieved in life unless you close your eyes a little bit. And that’s love and peace. If you want perfection you won’t obtain either of them. – Shimon Peres
Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace. – U. Thant
When things change inside you, things change around you. – Unknown
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Peace can become a lens through which you see the world. Be it. Live it. Radiate it out. Peace is an inside job. – Wayne Dyer
Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love. – James Allen
Those who love thy law have great peace, and nothing causes them to stumble. – Psalms 119:165
It’s easy to look at the things of this world to solve our challenges and obstacles in life, but when we submit our lives to Christ, His grace, mercy, peace and love will bring true fulfillment to our lives. – Bethany Hamilton
Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures. – John F. Kennedy
That idea of peace and love toward humanity shouldn’t be nationalistic or denominational. It should be a chief concern for all mankind. – Mos Def
Life is a gift from God above. Live each day with peace and love; no matter what storm travels through. – Nishan Panwar
Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Peace is liberty in tranquility. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
If there’s no inner peace, people can’t give it to you. The husband can’t give it to you. Your children can’t give it to you. You have to give it to you. – Linda Evans
We need not accept that view. Our problems are man-made. Therefore, they can be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings. Man’s reason and spirit have often solved the seemingly unsolvable – and we believe they can do it again. – John F. Kennedy
Let us love the world to peace. – Eileen Elias Freeman
What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family. – Mother Teresa
We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion. – Mother Teresa
Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity. – Thich Nhat Hanh
Peace is a day-to-day problem, the product of a multitude of events and judgments. Peace is not an ‘is,’ it is a ‘becoming.’ – Haile Selassie
Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it towards others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will also be in our troubled world. – Etty Hillesum
The only two important things in life are real love and being at peace with yourself. – Jonathan Carroll
It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it. – Martin Luther King
If there is love, there is hope that one may have real families, real brotherhood, real equanimity, real peace. – Dalai Lama
Being relaxed, at peace with yourself, confident, emotionally neutral loose, and free-floating – these are the keys to successful performance in almost everything. – Wayne W. Dyer
It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it. – Eleanor Roosevelt
Always do what you are afraid to do. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don’t drink at the water’s edge, throw yourself in. Become the water. Only then will your thirst be quenched. – Jeanette Berson
You should feel beautiful and you should feel safe. What you surround yourself with should bring you peace of mind and peace of spirit. – Stacy London
Peace is the fruit of love, a love that is also justice. But to grow in love requires work — hard work. And it can bring pain because it implies loss — loss of the certitudes, comforts, and hurts that shelter and define us. – Jean Vanier
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love. – St. Francis of Assisi
We work for peace every time we exercise authority with wisdom and authentic love. – Jean Vanier
The best weapon is to sit down and talk. – Nelson Mandela
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. – George Edward Woodberry
Sometimes you can find peace of mind by transferring yourself to different situations. They’re just reminders to stay … calm. – Yves Behar
To have peace and love in a marriage is a gift that is next to the knowledge of the gospel. – Martin Luther
Can love and peace live in the same heart? Youth is unhappy because it is faced with this terrible choice; love without peace, or peace without love. – Pierre Beaumarchais
Love is not a doctrine, Peace is not an international agreement. Love and peace are beings who live as possibilities in us. – Mary Caroline Richards
Peace and love are eternal. – John Lennon
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don’t search for anything except peace. Try to calm the mind. Everything else will come on its own. – Baba Hari Das
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Peace is its own reward. – Mahatma Gandhi
Love and generosity are the simplest forms of peace. – Kate Hardy
Peace does not mean the absence of war, peace means the presence of harmony, love, satisfaction and oneness. Peace means a flood of love in the world family. – Sri Chinmoy
Love is supposed to bring you peace and happiness. If you are not feeling this in a relationship, you are living an illusion. – Leon Brown
May there always be peace, love and happiness in every house. – Islom Karimov
We should learn to live and love our neighbors as ourselves for the sake of peace and progress. – David McCallum
Let go of the thoughts that don’t make you strong. – Karen Salmansohn
Ever since happiness heard your name, it’s been running through the streets trying to find you. – Hafiz
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world. – John Muir
To find eternal peace, love everyone as if they are your beloved children. – Debasish Mridha
If you love everyone and everything sincerely then you are truly at peace. –
All works of love are works of peace. – Mother Teresa
To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness. – Robert Muller
If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else. – Marvin Gaye
You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory. – J. Donald Walters
I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
If only there were evil people out there insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were just simple, we could separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who among us is willing to destroy a piece of their own heart. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Mercy, peace and love be yours in abundance. – Jude 1:2
Peace and love to everyone that you meet. Don’t you worry, it could be so sweet. – Bob Sinclar
Love is supposed to bring you peace and happiness. If you are not feeling this in a relationship then you are living an illusion. – Unknown
We don’t realize that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme self who is eternally at peace. – Elizabeth Gilbert
Peace is always beautiful. – Walt Whitman
Peace brings with it so many positive emotions that it is worth aiming for in all circumstances. – Estella Eliot
The great progress for justice was started with very few people: women’s suffrage, abolition for slavery, the farmers populist & labor progressive movement in the late 19th century, and then on to the small number of people who pushed for social security, medicare and many other changes. It starts with We the People… Every one of these changes that we’re glad of in the 20th century, they never had more than a few thousand really full on activists, but they represented the public sentiments. So let’s not lose heart folks. We still have the power, we just have to organize groups that first focus on the Members of Congress, that’s the pivot institution that has the power to leverage turning this country around. And there are only 535 of them in the U.S. Congress. – Ralph Nader
Those who love your instructions have great peace and do not stumble. – Psalm
Just like natural beauty, peace and love can grow just about anywhere. – Unknown
Finally, brothers, rejoice. Aim for restoration, comfort one another, agree with one another, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you. – Corinthians
We stand by as children starve by the millions because we lack the will to end hunger. But we have found the will to develop missiles capable of flying over the polar cap and landing within a few hundred feet of their target. This is not innovation. It is a profound distortion of humanity’s purpose on earth. – Senator Mark Hatfield
No person, no place, and no thing has any power over us, for ‘we’ are the only thinkers in our mind. When we create peace and harmony and balance in our minds, we will find it in our lives. – Louise L. Hay
Love and compassion are the pillars of world peace. – Dalai Lama
Peace is the harvest of love as war is the fruit of hate. – Joan Walsh
If you don’t know the guy on the other side of the world, love him anyway because he’s just like you. He has the same dreams, the same hopes and fears. It’s one world, pal. We’re all neighbors. – Frank Sinatra
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls. – Elizabeth Cady Stanton
God did not burden the United States with a diversity of backgrounds, ideals and religions, he BLESSED America with them… and we in our diversity and differences are all in this together. – Rep. Emanuel Cleaver
I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. – Diane Ackerman
Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day. – Henri Nouwen
Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding. – Albert Einstein
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. – Jimi Hendrix
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it? – Eleanor Roosevelt
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
To see a world in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour. – William Blake
The heart that breaks open can contain the whole universe. – Joanna Macy
We aren’t passengers on Spaceship Earth. We’re the crew. We aren’t residents on this planet. We’re citizens. The difference in both cases is responsibility. – Apollo Astronaut Rusty Schweickart
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. – John Lennon
Peace comes from being able to contribute the best that we have, and all that we are, toward creating a world that supports everyone. But it is also securing the space for others to contribute the best that they have and all that they are. – Hafsat Abiola
Because the relationship between self and world is reciprocal, it is not a matter of first getting enlightened or saved and then acting. As we work to heal the Earth, the Earth heals us. No need to wait. As we care enough to take risks, we loosen the grip of ego and begin to come home to our true nature. – Joanna Macy
We are our world knowing itself. We can relinquish our separateness. We can come home again – and participate in our world in a richer, more responsible and poignantly beautiful way than before, in our infancy. – Joanna Macy
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal. – Pamela Vaull Starr
Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means. – Ronald Reagan
Not one of us can rest, be happy, be at home, be at peace with ourselves, until we end hatred and division. – John Lewis
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. – Henry David Thoreau
A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
By peace we mean the capacity to transform conflicts with empathy, without violence, and creatively- a never-ending process – Johan Galtung
I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear. – Martin Luther King, Jr
I have also decided to stick with love, for I know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind’s problems. And I’m going to talk about it everywhere I go. I know it isn’t popular to talk about it in some circles today. And I’m not talking about emotional bosh when I talk about love; I’m talking about a strong, demanding love. For I have seen too much hate. I’ve seen too much hate on the faces of sheriffs in the South. I’ve seen hate on the faces of too many Klansmen and too many White Citizens Councilors in the South to want to hate, myself, because every time I see it, I know that it does something to their faces and their personalities, and I say to myself that hate is too great a burden to bear. I have decided to love. If you are seeking the highest good, I think you can find it through love. – Martin Luther King, Jr
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. – Fred Rogers
When you make peace with yourself, you make peace with the world. – Maha Ghosananda
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift. – Albert Einstein
I arise in the morning torn between a desire to save the world and a desire to savor the world. That makes it hard to plan the day. – E.B. White
‘I am here to make the case for strengthening our capacity to use soft” power and for better integrating it with hard” power… Military success is not sufficient to win: economic development, institution-building and the rule of law, promoting internal reconciliation, good governance, providing basic services to the people, training and equipping indigenous military and police forces, strategic communications, and more of these, along with security, are essential ingredients for long-term success… – Sec. of Defense, Robert Gates
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. – Winston Churchill
My hope and wish is that one day, formal education will pay attention to what I call education of the heart.” Just as we take for granted the need to acquire proficiency in the basic academic subjects, I am hopeful that a time will come when we can take it for granted that children will learn, as part of the curriculum, the indispensability of inner values: love, compassion, justice, and forgiveness. – Dalai Lama
Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
In a time of unprecedented challenge and evolutionary transition we must heal the wounds of the past, engage fully in the transformation of present conditions, and create a future of unparalleled dignity and beauty for all beings and for all life on Earth. – James O’Dea
Each of the great social achievements of recent decades has come about not because of government proclamations, but because people organized, made demands, and made it good politics for governments to respond. It is the political will of the people that makes and sustains the political will of governments. – James Grant, former Executive Director of UNICEF
I was once asked why I don’t participate in anti-war demonstrations. I said that I will never do that, but as soon as you have a pro-peace rally, I’ll be there. – Mother Teresa
A few really dedicated people can offset the masses of out of harmony people, so we who work for peace must not falter, we must continue to pray for peace and to act for peace in whatever way we can. We must continue to speak for peace and to live the way of peace; to inspire others, we must continue to think of peace and know that peace is possible. What we dwell upon we help bring to manifestation. One little person giving all of her time to peace makes news. Many people giving some of their time can make history. – The Peace Pilgrim
Decide to network. Use every letter you write, every conversation you have, every meeting you attend to express your fundamental beliefs and dreams.
Affirm to others the vision of the world you want. Network through thought, network through action, network through love, network through the spirit.
You are the center of the world. You are a free, immensely powerful source of life and goodness. Affirm it, spread it, radiate it. Think day and night about it and you will see a miracle happen; the greatness of your own life.
In a world of big powers, media and monopolies, but of four and a half billion (now six), networking is the new freedom, the new democracy, a new form of happiness. – Robert Muller, Assistant Secretary General, United Nations
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that, one of these days, governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower
This, therefore, is a faded dream of the time when I went down into the dust and noise of the Eastern market-place, and with my brain and muscles, with sweat and constant thinking, made others see my visions coming true. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that all was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men and women, for they may act their dream with open eyes, and make it possible. – T. E. Lawrence
I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their happiness or satisfaction. Yet true happiness comes from a sense of peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved through the cultivation of altruism, of love and compassion, and elimination of ignorance, selfishness, and greed. – Dalai Lama
Security is mostly superstition. It doesn’t exist in nature nor do we as human beings experience it. Avoiding the danger of life is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. – Helen Keller
It is in the nature of revolution, the overturning of an existing order, that at its inception a very small number of people are involved. The process, in fact, begins with one person and an idea, an idea that persuades a second, then a third and a fourth, and gathers force until the idea is successfully contradicted, absorbed into conventional wisdom, or actually turns the world upside down. A revolution requires not only ammunition, but also weapons and men willing to use them and willing to be slain in the battle. In an intellectual revolution there must be ideas and advocates willing to challenge an entire profession, the establishment itself, willing to spend their reputations and careers in spreading the idea through deeds as well as words. – Jude Wanniski
We’re not passengers on Spaceship Earth, we’re the crew. We’re not just residents on this planet, we’re citizens. The difference in both cases is responsibility. – Russell Schweiker, U.S. Apollo 9 astronaut
Leadership is all about the release of human possibilities. . .the capacity to inspire is communicating to people that you believe they matter, that you know they have something important to give. – Joseph Jaworski
I know of no safe depository of the ultimate power of society but the people themselves; and if we think them no enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion by education. – Thomas Jefferson
Loving Your Enemies… Far from being the pious injunction of a utopian dreamer, this demand is an absolute necessity for the survival of our civilization. Yes it is love that will save our world and civilization; love even for our enemies. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
I still believe that one day mankind will bow before the altars of God and be crowned triumphant over war and bloodshed, and nonviolent redemptive goodwill will proclaim the rule of the land. Most of these people will never make the headlines and their names will not appear in Who’s Who. Yet when years have rolled past and when the blazing light of truth is focused on this marvelous age in which we live-men and women will know and children will be taught that we have a finer land, a better people, a more noble civilization-because these humble children of God were willing to suffer for righteousness’ sake. – Martin Luther King Jr
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. – President Dwight D. Eisenhower
The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it.
Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate, In fact violence merely increases hate.
So it goes. Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than are governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of their way and let them have it. – Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1959
Our task must be to free ourselves from our prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all humanity and the whole of nature in its beauty. – Albert Einstein
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. – Wendell Berry
Love is the vital essence that pervades and permeates, from the center to the circumference, the graduating circles of all thought and action. Love is the talisman of human weal and woe-the open sesame to every soul. – Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit. – Gandhi
As you press on for justice, be sure to move with dignity and discipline, using only the weapon of love. Let no man pull you so low as to hate him. Always avoid violence. If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in your struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness, and your chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos. – Martin Luther King Jr.
