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Peace Quotes
"Violence can only breed more violence and suffering. Our struggle must remain non-violent and free of hatred."
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"Look into my eyes andYou'll see my mind.A tranquil city,That rebuilt itself and left the past behind."
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"We are the people who believe in Vasudeva Kutumbakam...we want the world to move ahead with peace and prosperity."
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"Weapons never stay in their boxes. Once a weapon has been manufactured, sooner or later someone will use it. If it were possible to bring about true and lasting peace by force of arms, then we should turn all our factories into weapons factories. But that is impossible. Even though it is difficult to try to bring about peace through inner transformation, it is the only way of establishing sustainable peace in the world."
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"Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny."
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"You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil."
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"The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life, which is impossible to the pure egoist."
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"Sometimes in the summer evenings they walked up the hill to watch the afterglow clinging to the tops of the western mountains and to feel the breeze drawn into the valley by the rising day-heated air. Usually they stood silently for a while and breathed in peacefulness. Since both were shy they never talked about themselves. Neither knew about the other at all."
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"If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work."
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"Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace."
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"Revere the unity of all-that-iscarry out your daily activities with compassion;if you do not limit your compassion,you yourself will not be limited."
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"Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent."
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"You accept that this civilisation could be abolished and life will begin later on after a few thousand years because that is something that has happened in the history of this planet. When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair there is no hope."
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"It is a good thing to make a bridge of gold to a flying enemy."
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"Appreciations promote inner peace."
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"Peace shouldn't be an option, it must be the objective, peace shouldn't be a possibility, it must be the purpose."
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"I tell you there is no such thing as creative hate!"
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"The task is to learn to live in peace with one's own nature."
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"If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace."
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"We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it."
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"The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small."
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"She could not descend to an existence where her brain would explode under the pressure of forcing itself not to outdistance incompetence. She could not function to the rule of: Pipe down-keep down-slow down-don't do your best, it is not wanted!"
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"Peace is not merely the absence of war or conflict but the presence of tranquility, harmony and love."
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"We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger."
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"To sense the peace of extinguished passionHappiness in not knowing the ultimate knowledge."
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"I didn't want any flowers, I only wantedTo lie with my hands turned up and be utterly empty.How free it is, you have no idea how free--The peacefulness is so big it dazes you,And it asks nothing, a name tag, a few trinkets.It is what the dead close on, finally; I imagine them Shutting their mouths on it, like a Communion tablet."
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"It is not a question of money, power, or prestige; it is a question of peace and love."
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"I have realized that we all have plague, and I have lost my peace. And today I am still trying to find it; still trying to understand all those others and not to be the enemy of anyone. I only know that one must do what one can to cease being plague-stricken, and that's the only way in which we can hope for some peace or, failing that, a decent death. This, and only this, can bring relief to men and, if not save them, at least do them the least harm possible and even, sometimes, a little good."
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"To promote peace, promote understanding. To promote understanding, promote love."
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"Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted."
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