Peaceful Quotes

• “I felt that I had done my duty. Nothing drove me now. I had run out of causes and was as close as I might ever be to peace. With all this behind me, I felt that if I had to die now, it was all right. I would not protest quite so loudly as I would have at any other time. ” — Roger Zelazny
• “To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.” — Buddha
• “With malice toward none, with charity for all, ...let us strive on to finish the work we are in, ...to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations. ” — Abraham Lincoln
• “You cannot find peace by avoiding life. ” — Virginia Woolf
• “An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind. ” — Mahatma Gandhi
• “Peace begins with a smile.” — Mother Teresa
• “If peace cannot be maintained with honor, it is no longer peace. ” — John Russell
• “Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.” — Richard M. DeVos
• “If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.” — Peace Pilgrim
• “Peace and blessings manifest with every lesson learned - and if your knowledge were your wealth then it would be well earned. ” —  Erykah Badu
• “Every time we hold our tongues instead of returning the sharp retort, show patience with another’s faults, show a little more love and kindness, we are helping to stock-pile more of these peace-bringing qualities in the world instead of armaments for war.” — Constance Foster
• “First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.” — Thomas a Kempis
• “Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding. ” — Albert Einstein
• “Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.” — Dalai Lama
• “God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing. ” — C. S. Lewis
• “To survive in peace and harmony, united and strong, we must have one people, one nation, one flag.” — Pauline Hanson
• “This is the true nature of home -- it is the place of Peace; the shelter, not only from injury, but from all terror, doubt and division. ” — John Ruskin
• “For the sake of peace one may lie, but peace itself should never be a lie. ” — The Talmud
• “The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war. ” — William Shakespeare
• “Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace. ” — Albert Schweitzer
• “Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “The greatest self is a peaceful smile, that always sees the world smiling back. ” — Bryant H. McGill
• “Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism. ” — Dorothy Thompson
• “Tranquil pleasures last the longest. We are not fitted to bear long the burdens of great joy.” — Christian Bovée
• “When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. ” — Jimi Hendrix
• “You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory.” — Donald Walters