Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace. —Robert J. Sawyer in Calculating God More about this quote Tags: ignorance learning peace Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. —Indira Gandhi More about this quote Tags: peace anger aggression Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The meeting of a customer and a clerk across the service counter in a store is as significant as two leaders of nations meeting over a conference table in search of peace. If peace and understanding is possible, it must occur in the moment that is present. It can occur only when relationship is real and unconditional. Relationship begins with thoughtless awareness, an openness that sees and hears with humility, and a consideration that has already forgiven all things that the mind might present as a barrier to unity. —Booker Jones More about this quote Tags: awareness forgiveness peace relationship humility business service significance consideration Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
An enormous conflict between words and deeds is prevalent today: everyone talks about freedom, democracy, justice, human rights, about peace and saving the world from nuclear apocalypse; and at the same time, everyone, more or less, consciously or unconsciously, serves those values and ideals only to the extent necessary to serve himself and his "worldly" interests, personal interests, group interests, power interests, property interests, and state or great-power interests. . . . So the power structures apparently have no other choice than to sink deeper into this vicious maelstrom, and contemporary people apparently have no other choice than to wait around until the final inhibition drops away. But who should begin? Who should break this vicious circle? Responsibility cannot be preached but only borne, and the only possible place to begin is with oneself. —Vaclav Havel More about this quote Tags: justice truth power freedom peace words democracy change responsibility talk values Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you anymore. —Franz Kafka More about this quote Tags: peace Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race. —George Bernard Shaw More about this quote Tags: humanity peace patriotism quiet Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
War creates peace like hate creates love. —David L. Wilson More about this quote Tags: war love hate peace Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Life, as we all know, is conflict, and man, being part of life, is himself an expression of conflict. If he recognizes the fact and accepts it, he is apt, despite the conflict, to know peace and to enjoy it. —Henry Miller More about this quote Tags: life acceptance peace enjoyment conflict Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I don't envy "busy." Busy means having a schedule, not living life. What I really covet is leisure and peace of mind. —Donna Lynn Hope More about this quote Tags: life mind living peace busyness envy schedule Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Another possible source of guidance for teenagers is television, but television's message has always been that the need for truth, wisdom and world peace pales by comparison with the need for a toothpaste that offers whiter teeth *and* fresher breath. —Dave Barry More about this quote Tags: truth wisdom peace television teenagers toothpaste Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Everything was okay. Maybe not perfect, but life wasn't meant to be perfect. It was messy and sometimes it was a disaster, but there was beauty in the messiness and there could be peace in the disaster. —Jennifer L. Armentrout in Wait for You More about this quote Tags: beauty peace disaster Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Forgiveness is not simply the absolving of an enemy, or one who has done us wrong. Forgiveness must encompass all those things which disturb the tranquility of our soul: the barking dog that robs you of sleep, the heat of summer, the cold of winter. Forgive the ingrown toenail, the flea that bites; forgive the cranky child, wrinkles, a forgotten birthday. —Barbara Wood More about this quote Tags: forgiveness peace equanimity tranquility Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Another plan I have is World Peace through Formal Introductions. The idea is that everyone in the world would be required to meet everyone else in the world, formally, at least once. You'd have to look the person in the eye, shake hands, repeat their name, and try to remember one outstanding physical characteristic. My theory is, if you knew everyone in the world personally, you'd be less inclined to fight them in a war: "Who? The Malaysians? Are you kidding? I know those people! —George Carlin More about this quote Tags: peace violence intimacy familiarity meeting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The insight that peace is the end of war, and that therefore a war is the preparation for peace, is at least as old as Aristotle, and the pretense that the aim of an armament race is to guard the peace is even older — namely, as old as the discovery of propaganda lies. —Hannah Arendt More about this quote Tags: war peace lies propaganda Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war. —Pentagon official on why the U.S. military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War More about this quote Tags: war politics peace violence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email