I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge.
I feel that my father’s greatest legacy was the people he inspired to get involved in public service and their communities, to join the Peace Corps, to go into space. And really that generation transformed this country in civil rights, social justice, the economy and everything.
You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.
If Americans knew how to deal with other people, they could bring peace to the world. Alas, they have not learned enough yet. The true American feels that he is 100 percent welcome anywhere he goes.
May our former president, who brought peace to millions, find it for himself.
I want, of course, peace, grace, and beauty. How do you do that? You work for it.
In time of peace prepare for war.
The mere assemblage of peace loving people to interchange convincing reasons for their common faith, mere exhortation and argument to the public in favor of peace in general fall short of the mark.
Politics is about the improvement of people’s lives. It’s about advancing the cause of peace and justice in our country and the world. Politics is about doing well for the people.
You do indeed have a past, but not now! And, yes, you have a future, but not now! You can consume your now with thoughts of ‘then’ and ‘maybe,’ but that will keep you from the inner peace you could experience.
I would like to see real peace and a state of Israel living peacefully alongside a state of Palestine.
There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely.
My different personalities leave me in peace now.
The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
I feel like I play better when I’m calm. There is an inner peace I can tap into sometimes during my matches.
I wanted to be a man who travelled the world to make peace. I didn’t realise that most diplomats are megaphones for their governments.
When you’ve seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there.
Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way – everything is interdependent, not absolute. So that view is very helpful to maintain a peace of mind because the main destroyer of a peaceful mind is anger.
I lived my childhood as a village girl in Kojo, south of Sinjar region. I did not know anything about the Nobel Peace Prize.
Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking.
We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.
Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.
It’s just the risk that I take and the sacrifice that I make: Putting myself, my career, my family’s peace of mind on the line just to do right by my fans. It ain’t no gray area: You’re either with that and willing to go out of your way to make people who contribute to your dreams coming true happy or you aren’t.
We must fight for peace bravely as we fought in war.
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
The primary, the fundamental, the essential purpose of the United Nations is to keep peace. Everything it does which helps prevent World War III is good. Everything which does not further that goal, either directly or indirectly, is at best superfluous.
You should feel beautiful and you should feel safe. What you surround yourself with should bring you peace of mind and peace of spirit.
We want to be brothers and sisters. We want respect and equality. Simon Bolivar, our father, said a balanced world – a universe – a balanced universe in order to have peace and development.
The lesson of the Cold War is that against nuclear weapons, only nuclear weapons can hold the peace.
The basis for all human relationships and where we derive our greatest strength and power, trust is single-handedly the most powerful source of positive energy and, once in place, unlocks a freedom and peace to explore.
Well the message I have for everyone working on peace, is that bringing results on peace can be easily entrained passively.
If the world would only build temples to Machinery in the abstract then everything would be perfect. The painter and sculptor would have plenty to do, and could, in complete peace and suitably honored, pursue their trade without further trouble.
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
It takes a few to make war, but it takes a village and a nation to build peace.
The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.
I believe in the Prince of Peace. I believe that War is Murder. I believe that armies and navies are at bottom the tinsel and braggadocio of oppression and wrong, and I believe that the wicked conquest of weaker and darker nations by nations whiter and stronger but foreshadows the death of that strength.
It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow’s viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.
First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.
If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace.
Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else’s skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.
As far as having peace within myself, the one way I can do that is forgiving the people who have done wrong to me. It causes more stress to build up anger. Peace is more productive.
We had the courage to face the superpowers that wanted a military triumph for each side they supported in Central America. We told them, ‘No,’ and presented a peace plan.
When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.
Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.
He will easily be content and at peace, whose conscience is pure.
Peace without justice is tyranny.
If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
I haven’t had a single thought for 26 years. I have only understanding. It’s somewhat complicated to understand that. I’ve hardly ever spoken about it. You’re in a state of total peace of mind. A kind of nirvana.
I hope royalty continues forever. This is the thing that can contribute to peace throughout the world.
Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!
The olive branch has been consecrated to peace, palm branches to victory, the laurel to conquest and poetry, the myrtle to love and pleasure, the cypress to mourning, and the willow to despondency.
A diplomatic peace is not yet the real peace. It is an essential step in the peace process leading towards a real peace.
We need to move into a culture of peace. What I hope to promote is the idea that we all need each other and that the greatest happiness in life is not how much we have but how much we give. That’s a wealth that’s priceless. You can’t buy compassion.
People always make war when they say they love peace.
Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that’s where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.
If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.
A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
Wishful thinking won’t make the Palestinians an Israeli peace partner, no matter how much President Barack Obama pressures Israel to make concessions; caustically mocking Putin’s worldview won’t make it any less real or mitigate the Russian threat.
The attainment of the economic aims of man presupposes peace.
We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.
I love acting. It’s my playground, it let’s me explore. But my happiness in this world – my level of peace – is never going to be dictated by acting.
It was Jesus who gave me peace when the shark severed my arm. I trust in Jesus whenever I’m going through a hard time. I see all the beautiful things that have come out of my situation. I’m able to share my story with young girls who have few role models, and I can help others cope with what they have been through.
