Peace Quotes - Page 67

There are many Welsh who are taciturn, truthful, well formed, open minded, handsome and peaceful, even if no particular individual immediately springs to mind.

You can never evaluate anything standing from outside; you have to evaluate yourself first.

It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.

The more refined one is, the more unhappy.

Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.

A feeling is not bottomless. once felt all the way through,a great peace greets you there

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

A broadsheet obituarist once pointed out to me that veteran soldiers die by rank. First to go are the generals, admirals and air marshals, then the brigadiers, then a bit of a gap and the colonels and wing commanders and passed-over majors, then a steady trickle of captains and lieutenants. As they get older and rarer, so the soldiers are mythologised and grow ever more heroic, until finally drummer boys and under-age privates are venerated and laurelled with honours like ancient field marshals. There is something touching about that.

We'll blast them back into the stone ages!

The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.

I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more, is none

Concession comes with better grace and more salutary effect from superior power.

Fighting for your convictions is important. But finding peace is paramount.

When you live on a round planet, there's no choosing sides.

All of man's wars are based upon TAKING. There could be no war based upon GIVING.

Like the Sweetness of Gardenias Mother, you died 15 years ago. pain, a rapier, cut until, finally, there was just peace like the sweetness of gardenias in the crystal vase on your yellow kitchen table. so fragrant. your voice lingers in my ear reminding, scolding, guiding a pleasant mantra of tenderness, magic words that move my palms, your palms. together we are molding, helping, creating. in the mirror I see your eyes, your beautiful brown circles looking back, so radiant. "don't forget me," you whispered the day you died. I won't.

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.

There are no right answers to wrong questions.

Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions.

If you take any activity, any art, any discipline, any skill-take it and push it as far as it will go, push it beyond where it has ever been before, push it to the wildest edges of edges, then you force it into the realm of magic.

I am not blaming those who are resolved to rule, only those who show an even greater readiness to submit.

Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace.

Peace is normally a great good, and normally it coincides with righteousness, but it is righteousness and not peace which should bind the conscience of a nation as it should bind the conscience of an individual; and neither a nation nor an individual can surrender conscience to another's keeping.

Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.

The real glory of meditation lies not in any method but in its continual living experience of presence, in its bliss, clarity, peace, and most important of all, complete absence of grasping. The diminishing of grasping in yourself is a sign that you are becoming freer of yourself. And the more you experience this freedom, the clearer the sign that the ego and the hopes and fears that keep it alive are dissolving, and the closer you will come to the infinitely generous "wisdom of egolessness."