Quotes on Being At Peace

I am talking about genuine peace, the kind of peace that makes life on earth worth living, the kind that enables men and nations to grow and to hope and to build a better life for their children - not merely peace for Americans but peace for all men and women - not merely peace in our time but peace for all time.

We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it, by vigorously willing to have it ... Peace is a consciousness of springs too deep for earthly droughts to dry up. Peace is the gift not of volitional struggle but of spiritual hospitality.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

The pacifist's task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war.

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.

Peace is not something you wish for, it's something you make

Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.

Peace starts within each one of us. When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us. When our community is in a state of peace, it can share peace with neighboring communities, and so on. When we feel love and kindness towards others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace?

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

I speak of peace, therefore, as the necessary rational end of rational men. I realize the pursuit of peace is not as dramatic as the pursuit of war... But we have no more urgent task.

Peace and love are ever in us, being and working; but we be not alway in peace and in love.

The more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world.

Peace is the only battle worth waging.

Let us examine our attitude toward peace itself. Too many of us think it is impossible. Too many think it unreal. But that is a dangerous, defeatist belief. It leads to the conclusion that war is inevitable, that mankind is doomed, that we are gripped by forces we cannot control. We need not accept that view. Our problems are manmade; therefore they can be solved by man. And man can be as big as be wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

I am only one,_x000D_ But still I am one.