I do not want the peace which passeth understanding; I want
the understanding which bringeth peace.

—Helen Keller

understanding peace

About Helen Keller

Portrait of Helen Keller

Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968) was an American deafblind author, disability rights advocate, political activist and lecturer.

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What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

—Helen Keller

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

—Helen Keller

But a somewhat more liberal and sympathetic examination of mankind will convince us that the cross is even older than the gibbet, that voluntary suffering was before and independent of compulsory; and in short that in most important matters a man has always been free to ruin himself if he chose.

—Helen Keller

I have found that it don't really matter if you're brought up fine or rough, but that it helps to have someone to spill your sorrows to.

—Helen Keller

Be entirely tolerant or not at all; follow the good path or the evil one. To stand at the crossroads requires more strength than you possess.

—Helen Keller

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We need to take a leap of the imagination and envision nations as the best kinds of families: the democratic ones we are
trying to create in our own lives. A hierarchical family must
be changed anyway if we are to stop producing leaders whose
unexamined early lives are then played out on a national and
international stage.… Changing the way we raise children is the only long-term path to peace or arms control, and neither
has ever been more crucial. As the feminist adage says, "The
personal is political.

—Gloria Steinem

imagination peace change family

Peace is only a hair's breadth away from war.

Peacekeeper missile." Doesn't that sound like "ax-murderer baby sitter"?

—Elayne Boosler

No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.

—Harry Emerson Fosdick

peace pouncing reactivity

To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring—it was peace.

—Milan Kundera

History

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26 Oct 2026 Wording changed

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I do not want the peace which passeth understanding; I want
the understanding which bringeth peace.