Peace Quotes

Acceptance of others, their looks, their behaviors, their beliefs, brings you an inner peace and tranquillity instead of anger and resentment.

Anon x

Do not lose your inward peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.

Saint Francis De Sales 1567

Find peace with yourself by accepting not only what you are, but what you are never going to be.

Anon xxx

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Serenity Prayer

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803

The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.

Seneca

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

Aesop

If we are serious about peace, then we must work for it as ardently, seriously, continuously, carefully, and bravely as we have ever prepared for war.

Wendell Berry

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

Abraham Maslow

Be a good human being, a warm-hearted affectionate person. That is my fundamental belief. Having a sense of caring, a feeling of compassion will bring happiness of peace of mind to oneself and automatically create a positive atmosphere.

Dalai Lama 1935

Love is not getting, but giving. Not a wild dream of pleasure and madness of desire - oh, no - love is not that! It is goodness and honor and peace and pure living - yes, love is that and it is the best thing in the world and the thing that lives the longest.

Henry Van Dyke

Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or later.

Alice Munro 1931

Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that we have to erect the ramparts of peace.

UNESCO Charter

Yes, in the poor man's garden grow far more than herbs and flowers kind thoughts, contentment, peace of mind, and joy for weary hours.

Mary Howitt 1799

You will give yourself peace of mind if you perform every act of your life as if it were you last.

Marcus Aurelius 121

Discourage litigation. Persuade you neighbors to compromise whenever you can ... As a peace-maker the lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

Abraham Lincoln 1809

Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it! Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!

Patrick Henry

Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.

Theodore Parker

Peace I wish from the depths of my soul. My spiritual aim is that my people should have calmness, peace and honour in their lives.

Vellupillai Pirapakaran

Under this tree, where light and shade speckle the grass like a Thrush's breast, here in this green and quiet place I give myself to peace and rest. The peace of my contented mind, that is to me a wealth untold

Unknown

Understanding precedes peace.

Vanna Bonta

I am for peace, retrenchment, and for reformthirty years ago the great watchwords of the great Liberal Party.

John Bright

A Garden is a lovesome thing, God wot! Rose plot, Fringed pool, Ferned grot, The veriest school of Peace; and yet the fool contends that God is not Not God! in Gardens! when the eve is cool? Nay, but I have a sign: 'T is very sure God walks in mine.

Thomas Edward Brown

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