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Peace Quotes


"Real, true and unshakable peace comes from above. With such peace, you sleep soundly even in the midst of storm. With such peace, you smile and praise God even when you are in chains, for you get a very good understanding and conviction that the author of the peace is able to do all things exceedingly beyond understanding!"


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


"When I heard your organization was recording testimonies, I knew I had to come. She died in my arms, saying 'I don't want to die.' That is what death is like. It doesn't matter what uniforms the soldiers are wearing. It doesn't matter how good the weapons are. I thought if everyone could see what I saw, we would never have war anymore."


"It is a great deal to fight while despising war, to accept losing everything while still preferring happiness, to face destruction while cherishing the idea of a higher civilization."


"I never had what it takes to make a first-rate anything.''That's wrong,' she declared. 'Everyone must have one thing that they can excel at. It's just a matter of drawing it out, isn't it?' But school doesn't know how to draw it out. It crushes the gift. It's no wonder most people never get to be what they want to be. They just get ground down."


"At length the Lady Galadriel released them from her eyes, and she smiled. 'Do not let your hearts be troubled,' she said. 'Tonight you shall sleep in peace.' Then they sighed and felt suddenly weary, as those who have been questioned long and deeply, though no words had been spoken openly."


"If it comes, let it come. If it goes, it's ok, let it go. Let things come and go. Stay calm, don't let anything disturb your peace, and carry on."


"One way you can trace your way back to real and true happiness and joy is through forgiveness."


"All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones."


"It is possible to escape the complexities, challenges and pace of modern life. All we have to do is close our eyes and picture a quiet world where time moves slowly."


"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."


"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 murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate...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."


"Peace begins with a touch of unconditional love."


"The brainless serenity of charwomen and janitors working late at night came over us. In a messy world we were at least making our little corner clean."


"Out yonder they may curse, revile, and torture one another, defile all the human instincts, make a shambles of creation (if it were in their power), but here, no, here, it is unthinkable, here there is abiding peace, the peace of God, and the serene security created by a handful of good neighbors living at one with the creature world."


"Solitude is the house of peace."



"If you go deeper and deeper into your own heart, you'll be living in a world with less fear, isolation and loneliness."


"We've got to win this battle, and we will. We have to win the peace."


"During the flames of controversy, opinions, mass disputes, conflict, and world news, sometimes the most precious, refreshing, peaceful words to hear amidst all the chaos are simply and humbly 'I don't know."


"Any coward can be a peacekeeper! In fact, that comes to one naturally. But they are blessed, the peacemakers...and all those who know the difference."


"War can't bring peace only understanding and love can do that."


"Peace does not mean an absence of violence or conflict, but it means how we respond to it, with violence or with love and understanding. Hate never can eradicate hate but love can."



"Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime."



"The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions."


"If every punch, kick done by somebody female or male (it doesn't matter) or a curses said by one of this two sexes and every other thing which makes you feel that you aren't protected or you are heart. Was replacted with a book, that you don't receive a punch or kick, but a book you will be an a librarian!"


"Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!"


"So the whole war is beause we can't talk to each other."
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