Peace Quotes

"Peace on earth will come to stay, when we live Christmas every day."

Helen Steiner Rice

"Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay."

Sallust

"Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty."

"A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world."

Joseph Addison

"My crown is in my heart, not on my head; Not decked with diamonds and Indian stones, Nor to be seen: my crown is called content."

"Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes."

"Learn to be calm and you will always be happy."

Paramahansa Yogananda

"Meditation is the soul's perspective glass."

Owen Feltham

"The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach – waiting for a gift from the sea."

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer."

"Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you."

Anne Lamott

"Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths."

Etty Hillesum

"Nothing in all creation is so like God as stillness."

Meister Eckhart

"Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom."

Francis Bacon

"The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion."

"War is not healthy for children and other living things."

Lorraine Schneider

"Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other."

Elie Wiesel

"In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived. How well we have loved. How well we have learned to let go."

Jack Kornfield

"If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"An enemy is one whose story we have not heard."

Gene Knudsen Hoffman

"To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war."

"The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence."

"Peace is not the highest goal in life; it is the most fundamental requirement."

Sadhguru

"If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation."

Jiddu Krishnamurti

"The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress."

Joseph Joubert