Peace Quotes - Page 62

No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.

After you have found inner peace you have endless energy - the more you give, the more you receive. After you have found your calling, you work easily and joyously. You never get tired.

I am calmly active, actively calm. I am the prince of peace sitting on a throne of poise, directing the kingdom of my activity.

* We can still alter our course. It is NOT too late. We still have options. We need the courage to change our values to the regeneration of our families, the life that surrounds us.

The dream we were conceived in will reveal a joyful face, and the world we once believed in will shine again in grace.

A good heart is a beautiful home where you can always find peace!

In struggling for human dignity the oppressed people of the world must not allow themselves to become bitter or indulge in hate campaigns. To retaliate with hate and bitterness would do nothing but intensify the hate in the world. Along the way of life, someone must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate. This can be done only by projecting the ethics of love to the center of our lives.

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

By its existence, the Peace Movement denies that governments know best; it stands for a different order of priorities: the human race comes first.

The key to happiness is to get the spirit and keep it.

We have the ability to achieve, if we master the necessary goodwill, a common global society blessed with a shared culture of peace that is nourished by the ethnic, national and local diversities that enrich our lives.

We are constantly being astonished these days at the amazing discoveries in the field of violence. But I maintain that far more undreamt of and seemingly impossible discoveries will be made in the field of nonviolence.

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.

As long as there are slaughterhouses there will be battlefields. A vegetarian diet is the acid test of humanitarianism.

The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.

There is something about the water - that solitary kind of peaceful feeling. You're on earth but not quite.

A vertical line is dignity. The horizontal line is peaceful. The obtuse angle is action. That's universal, it is primary.

Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.

I maintain, then, that we should make peace, not only with the Chians, the Rhodians, the Byzantines and the Coans, but with all mankind.

One must never look for happiness: one meets it by the way.

A deserted library in the morning - there's something about it that really gets to me. All possible words and ideas are there, resting peacefully.

The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.