Peace
“It does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise,
trouble or hard work. It means to be in the midst of those things
and still be calm in your heart.”
Unknown
“Be peace.”
Elesa Commerse
“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”
Mother Teresa
“While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.”
St. Francis of Assisi
“Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
“The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.”
Abraham Lincoln
“There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.”
A.J. Muste
“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”
Mohandas K. Gandhi
“Without inner peace, it is impossible to have world peace.”
The Dalai Lama
“Let us live in peace and harmony to keep the land and all life in balance. Only prayer and meditation can do that.”
Thomas Banyacya, Hopi Elder
“Just as fire is latent in wood,
as oil exists in the sesame seed,
so light resides within us all.”
Gurumayi Chidvilasananda
“Since the whole world cannot buy a single spring day,
Of what avail to seek yellow gold?”
Hsi Pei Lan
Ch'ing Dynasty poet
“People pay for what they do. And still more
for what they have allowed themselves to become.
And they pay for it, very simply, by the lives they lead.”
James Baldwin
“The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we should become.”
Charles Du Bos
“You learn to do by doing."
Denzel Washington
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.”
Ambrose Redmoon
“Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing.”
Adolph Monod
“I feel that merely to meditate on compassion is to take the passive option. Our meditation should form the basis for action, for seizing the opportunity to do something.”
H. H. The Dalai Lama
“If you stay ready, you ain’t got to get ready.”
Will Smith