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As we cultivate peace and happiness in ourselves,
we also nourish peace and happiness in those we love.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
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We really have to understand the person we want to love.
If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
If in our daily life we can smile,
if we can be peaceful and happy,
not only we, but everyone will profit from it.
This is the most basic kind of peace work.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
We are here to awaken from the illusion of our separateness.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile,
but sometimes your smile
can be the source of your joy.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
It is not desirable to cultivate
a respect for the law,
so much as for the right.
- Henry David Thoreau
To be a beneficial presence in the world,
cultivate a conscious awareness of your unity with Spirit.
Expect good in your own life.
Desire good for all others as well.
See and affirm abundant blessings of peace,
health, and plenty for everyone.
Align your thoughts with peace and happiness,
and realize that these qualities are your true nature.
- Kathy Juline
What can you do to promote world peace?
Go home and love your family.
- Mother Teresa
If anyone is unhappy, remember that
his unhappiness is his own fault...
Nothing else is the cause of anxiety or loss of tranquility
except our own opinion.
- Epictetus
Let there be peace on earth.
And let it begin with me.
- Jill Jackson Miller
To live a creative life
we must lose our fear of being wrong.
- Joseph Chilton Pearce
Learn to be calm and you will always be happy.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
The key to happiness is inner peace.
The greatest obstacles to inner peace are disturbing emotions
such as anger, attachment, fear and suspicion,
while love and compassion and a sense of universal responsibility
are the sources of peace and happiness.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The life of inner peace,
being harmonious and without stress,
is the easiest type of existence.
- Norman Vincent Peale
If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa
Peace cannot be achieved through violence,
it can only be attained through understanding.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be Counterpoint to the Clamor of the World.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
While you are proclaiming peace with your lips,
be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
- St. Francis of Assisi
If we are to teach real peace in this world,
and if we are to carry on a real war against war,
we shall have to begin with the children.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Where ignorance is our master,
there is no possibility of real peace.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky
The hope of a secure and livable world
lies with disciplined nonconformists
who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace.
A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being
that places harmony in one's life.
- Peace Pilgrim
We shall find peace. We shall hear angels.
We shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
- Anton Chekhov
Each and every human being on Earth
has both the responsibility and the privilege
of viewing themselves as Divine beings
with the power to bring about peace.
- James Twyman
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Peace begins with me.
- Anonymous
When you find peace within yourself,
you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.
- Peace Pilgrim
Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit.
Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever,
even if your whole world seems upset.
- Saint Francis de Sales
Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All we are saying is give peace a chance.
- John Lennon
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
We can never obtain peace in the outer world
until we make peace with ourselves.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process,
gradually changing opinions,
slowly eroding old barriers,
quietly building new structures.
- John F. Kennedy
A bad peace is better than a good war.
- Yiddish Proverb
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation
of confusion, misery and death...
I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.
- Anne Frank
You create stress in your life by getting angry,
and you can instantly remove
that stress by granting forgiveness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Imagine all the people living life in peace.
You may say I'm a dreamer,
but I'm not the only one.
I hope someday you'll join us,
and the world will be as one.
- John Lennon
The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can choose to be peaceful right here and now ...
it has nothing to do with what other people do or think.
- Gerald Jampolsky
When I see Spirit in everything, Peace is at hand.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We must teach our children to resolve
their conflicts with words, not weapons.
- William J. Clinton
The world has always been in an uproar,
and it always will be.
Choose Peace. Choose to live with Peace.
Choose to interact peacefully with everyone -
especially those whose instinct is not to be peaceful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We must learn to live together as brothers
or perish together as fools.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs.
Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
- John F. Kennedy
Ask yourself to slow down.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We must, indeed, all hang together or,
most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
- Benjamin Franklin
My Peace is Counterpoint to the Clamor of the World.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Guide our feet into the way of peace.
- Luke 1:79
If a warrior is to succeed at anything,
the success must come gently,
with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.
- Carlos Castaneda
We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Let me bring peace into moments of chaos.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We will not learn how to live together in peace
by killing each other's children.
- Jimmy Carter
The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
An "enemy" is a mirage -
an image of self reflected on the sands of Hell.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The practice of forgiveness is our most important
contribution to the healing of the world.
- Marianne Williamson
I lay aside the battles within my own mind,
and grant myself peace.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It isn't enough to talk about peace.
One must believe in it.
And it isn't enough to believe in it.
One must work at it.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
I Dream This Day of Wondrous Things,
of Peace and Hope and Pride.
I Dance My Dance with Life Today,
I'm Filled with Love Inside.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Grant That I May Radiate Thy Light, Thy Love,
Thy Healing, Thy Joy, and Thy Peace,
to All Those Around Me
and All Those in My Thoughts
This Day and Ever More.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Better than a thousand hollow words,
is one word that brings peace.
- The Buddha
If you wish to experience peace,
provide peace for another.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
If you want peace, stop fighting.
If you want peace of mind,
stop fighting with your thoughts.
- Peter McWilliams
If the human race wishes to have a
prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity,
they have only got to behave in a
peaceful and helpful way toward one another.
- Winston Churchill
If we cannot now end our differences,
at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
- John F. Kennedy
We should not let our response to
the people who disagree with us
be dictated by what they say about us
or even how they treat people we care for.
There has to be a chance that we can find love.
- William J. Clinton
Peace, Love, Health, Comfort, Joy, and the Light of Spirit -
all the rest is nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.
- Gerald Jampolsky
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