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Like a
cathedral, peace must be constructed
patiently and with unshakable faith.
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As
difficult as it can be to find genuine inner calm, it is the key to
creating
peace in the world as we know it. The world will not change until we
do,
and there is nothing the world can deliver to us that will give us the
peace
we crave. Peace comes not from the world, but from God.
Marianne
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Serenity
is not freedom from the storm but peace amid the storm.
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Our
most important task is to transform our consciousness so that violence
is no longer an option for us in our personal lives, so that understanding
that
a world of peace is possible only if we relate to each other as
peaceful beings, one individual at a time.
Deepak Chopra
I do not want the peace which passeth
understanding,
I want the understanding which bringeth
peace.
Helen Keller
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When
we're helping other people, we're nourishing our soul.
Depression or
unhappiness means we've got the wrong
goal.
We have forgotten that peace
of mind is our
only goal.
By concentrating on helping another
person, we
renew contact
with our soul and with God.
We can feel peaceful again. . . .
Peace of mind has
nothing to do with the external world;
it has only to do
with our connection with God. Love really is
the
answer. We're here only
to teach love. When
we're doing that,
our souls are singing and dancing.
When we remind ourselves
that we are spiritual
beings, that life and love
are the flame eternal,
that's
when our soul is nourished.
Gerald
Jampolsky
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The important thing to
remember is that peace comes
from within your own heart and mind, not
from
some outside source, and when you refuse
to be disturbed by
things about you,
life
will flood your being with dynamic energy.
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Peace is a daily, a weekly, a
monthly process, gradually changing opinions,
slowly
eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.
And however undramatic the pursuit of peace, the
pursuit must go on.
John F. Kennedy
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The
world will never
have lasting peace
so long as we reserve
for war
the finest
human qualities.
Peace,
no less than war,
requires idealism
and self-sacrifice
and
a righteous and dynamic faith.
John Foster Dulles
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If
I could ask for any gift in the world for myself, it would be peace.
If
I could ask for any
gift for everyone else in the world, it would be peace.
Peace
of mind, peace of heart, peace in relationships, peace in
every land. If everyone in the world felt at peace
with themselves, how much crime would we have? How
much anger and frustration and violence? So many of
the bad things in the world, even down to the person who
makes fun of you or someone you know, are caused by a
lack of peace, and it's hard to imagine what the world
would be like if everyone felt peace.
I know that my perspective of the
world has changed drastically since I've actually focused
on making peace one of my highest priorities in my life.
I do my best to find small pockets of peace, and I do my best not to let situations or people take my peace
away from me--if someone angers me, he or she has robbed
me of the feeling of peacefulness that I strive to
maintain in my life.
I can't do it
always--I've never
expected to, and I never expect to. I'm human, and I'm going to let my peace of mind slip away from time to
time. I'm going to worry about things like money
and jobs and what's wrong with my car. I'm going to
feel inferior to some people, I'm going to feel that I don't belong in certain situations,
I'm going to beat
myself up over something stupid that I'm going to say
tomorrow or next week or next month. As I get
better at maintaining peace, though, I'm not going to let
things like that take my peace away. And I'm going
to feel better because of it, and I'm going to be more
effective at making others feel better, too.
One of the things that
I always try
to ask myself before I respond in situations in which I'm
bound to overreact or react inappropriately is this:
Will my reaction contribute to the peace in the
world, or will it contribute to the discontent and anger
in the world? Sometimes the answer makes me stop
and not say what I meant to, and I always find that later, I'm much more at peace for not having said or done that
something than I would have been had i said it or done it.
Do you want to give a gift to the
world? Contribute to the peace in the world, and
help others feel one of the most important feelings they'll
ever feel. And don't forget to give it to yourself,
too--you deserve it. Peace be with you.
tom
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Peace
does not dwell in outward things, but within the soul;
we
may preserve
it in the midst of the bitterest pain,
if
our will remains firm and submissive. Peace
in this
life
springs from acquiescence to, not in an exemption
from, suffering.
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When
you have found inner peace, you are in constant contact with the
source of universal energy and cannot be tired. . . You have endless
energy.
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They are the happiest,
be they kings or peasants,
who find peace in their homes.
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Work is
not always required of a person.
There is such a thing as sacred
idleness,
the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.
George
MacDonald
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Over all
the mountaintops
Is peace.
In all treetops
You perceive
Scarcely a breath.
The little birds in the forest
Are silent.
Wait then; soon
You, too, will have peace.
Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe
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Peace
is the first thing the angels sang.
Peace is the mark of the children of God.
Peace is the nurse of love.
Peace is the mother of unity.
Peace is the rest of the blessed souls.
Peace is the dwelling place of eternity.
Leo
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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
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If
we have no peace, it is because
we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
Mother
Teresa
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Until we extend
our circle of compassion to all living things,
we will not find peace.
Albert
Schweitzer
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Nothing
can produce so great a serenity of life
as a mind
free from guilt and kept untainted,
not only from actions,
but purposes that are wicked. By this means the soul will
be not only unpolluted
but also undisturbed. The
fountain
will run
clear and unsullied.
Plutarch
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Peace
is self-control at its widest—at the width where the “self”
has been lost, and interest has been transferred to coordinations
wider than personality.
Alfred
North Whitehead
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There is no way to peace.
Peace is the way.
A.J. Muste
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The more we give up our hearts to God, to our
vocations, and to others,
forgetful of ourselves and of that which belongs to us—the greater
poise
we will acquire, until we reach peace, quiet, joy.
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Patience
is necessary in this life because so much of life is fraught
with adversity. No matter
how hard we try, our lives will never be without
strife and grief. Thus,
we should not strive for a peace that is without
temptation, or for a life that never feels adversity.
Peace is not found
by escaping temptations, but by being tried by them.
We will
have discovered peace when we have been tried and come
through the trial of temptation.
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In
your occupations, try to possess your soul in peace.
It is not a good plan to be in haste to perform any action
that it may be sooner over.
On the contrary, you should
accustom yourself to do whatever you have to do with
tranquility, in order that you may retain the possession
of yourself and of settled peace.
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The
peaceful people that I've known in life have been
those who have most affected me in positive ways. I've
always admired the way they accept things that happen
without losing their peace of mind over them--if they
decide that something's bad, they simply resolve to do
something about it, and then they do that something.
Their peace doesn't leave them.
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Peace is the happy, natural state
of humans; war, our corruption, our disgrace.
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Peace
comes from living a measured life. Peace comes
from
attending to every part of my world in
a sacramental way.
My relationships are not what
I do when I have time left
over from my work. . . .
Reading is not something I do
when life calms down. Prayer is not something I do
when I feel like it. They are all channels of hope
and growth for me. They must all be given their due.
Joan
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One
of the basic points is kindness. With kindness, with love and
compassion,
with this feeling that is the essence of brotherhood,
sisterhood, one
will have inner peace. This compassionate
feeling is the basis
of inner peace.
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Peace is present right here and now, in ourselves and
in everything we
do and see. The question is whether or not we are in touch with it. We
don't
have to
travel far away to enjoy the blue sky. We don't have to
leave
our city or even
our neighborhood to enjoy the eyes of a beautiful
child. Even
the air we breathe
can be a source of joy.
Thich
Nhat Hanh
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We
can make our minds so like still water that beings gather about us,
that they may see their own images, and so live for a moment with
a clearer, perhaps even with a fiercer life because of our quiet.
William Butler
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When
you are proclaiming peace with your lips,
be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
Francis
of Assisi
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When
you make peace with yourself,
you make peace with the world.
Maha
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I have walked 25,000 miles as a penniless
pilgrim. I own only what I wear
and what I carry in my small pockets. I belong to no
organization. I have
said that I will walk until given shelter and fast until given food,
remaining a
wanderer until mankind has learned the way of peace. And I can
truthfully
tell you that without ever asking for anything, I have been supplied
with
everything needed for my journey, which shows you how good people
really are.
With me I carry always my peace message: This is the way of
peace: Overcome
evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.
There is nothing new
about this message, except the practice of it. And the practice
of it is required not
only in the international situation but also in the personal
situation. I believe that the
situation in the world is a reflection of our own immaturity. If
we were mature,
harmonious people, war would be no problem whatever--it would be
impossible.
All of us can work for peace. We can work right where we are,
right within
ourselves, because the more peace we have within our own lives, the
more we
can reflect into the outer situation. In fact, I believe that
the wish to survive
will push us into some kind of uneasy world peace which will then need
to
be supported by a great inner awakening if it is to endure.
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Riches
bring anxiety; wisdom gives peace of mind.
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Storms
may rage on the surface of an ocean, but deep below, the waters
are calm. The fish know to stay in that peaceful place and let
the storm pass.
In prayer each day, I choose to turn my thoughts to the peace of God
within me.
On the surface of my mind, the appearance of lack or conflict or fear
may toss my
thoughts about in worry. I gently release those thoughts and
move my attention
deeper, to a place of peace within me. I take time for prayer
throughout my
day. As I rest in the stillness, I am serene--mind, body, and
spirit. Each time I
center myself in the peace of God, I experience absolute peace and
tranquility.
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Happy is the person who can keep a quiet heart,
in the chaos and tumult of this modern world.
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Peace is not
something you can force on anything or anyone--much less
upon one's own mind. It is like trying to quiet the ocean by
pressing upon
the waves. Sanity lies in somehow opening to the chaos, allowing
anxiety,
moving deeply into the tumult, diving deeply in the waves,
where underneath, within, peace simply is.
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We often see
people every day searching in the wrong places for the things
they desire. Too many of our fellow humans try to find peace and
happiness
in drugs, alcohol, and sensual excitement. And it doesn't
work. If we desire
peace, the first place to look is within ourselves. Peace isn't an
external
condition as much as an internal context.
John Marks
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There is a fear of
peace that I don't understand. Witness the
old epithet "peaceniks," the association of peace with weakness.
We mistake kindness for weakness in individuals, too.
Gandhi found the essence of Christianity to be gentleness, the
exaltation of means over ends.
Using violence, against us or them, to achieve peace is like
beating children to get them to be good. It only works in the
short term.
Believe in peace, think peace, live peace. Be a
building-block of peace. Make it the center of your strength.
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Only
when peace lives within each of us, will it live outside of us.
We must be
the wombs for a new harmony.
When it is small, peace is fragile.
Like a baby,
it needs nurturing attention.
We must protect peace from violence and
perversion if it is to grow.
We must be strong to do this.
But force, even in
the name of honor, is always tragic. Instead, we must use the
strength of
wisdom and conscience.
Only that power can nurture peace in this difficult time.
Deng Ming Dao
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I take it that what all
people are really after
is some form of,
perhaps only some formula of, peace.
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Peace without justice is an impossibility.
Desmond Tutu
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Our work for
peace must begin within the private world of each of us.
Dag Hammarskjold |
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Each one
has to find his or her peace from within. And peace to be
real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.
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If
you really want peace of mind and inner calm, you will get it.
Regardless of how unjustly you have been treated, or how unfair
the boss has been, or what a mean scoundrel someone has
proved to be, all this makes no difference to you when you
awaken to your mental and spiritual powers.
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The peace which results from social
comfort, passing gratification,
or worldly victory is transitory in nature, and is burned up in the heat
of fiery trial. . . only the selfless heart can know the Peace of Heaven.
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Five great
enemies to peace inhabit us: avarice, ambition, envy,
anger and pride. If those enemies were to be banished,
we would infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
Petrarch |
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Peace is not
something you wish for; it is something you make, something
you are, something you do, and something you give away.
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