Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peace Pilgrim

Many people profess Christianity. Very few live it-almost none. And when you live it people may think you're crazy. It has been truthfully said that the world is equally shocked by one who repudiates Christianity as by one who practices it.

Peace Pilgrim

We can work on inner peace and world peace at the same time. On one hand, people have found inner peace by losing themselves in a cause larger than themselves, like the cause of world peace, because finding inner peace means coming from the self-centered life into the life centered in the good of the whole. On the other hand, one of the ways of working for world peace is to work for more inner peace, because world peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it.

Peace Pilgrim

You are within God. God is within you.

Peace Pilgrim

Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Peace Pilgrim

We are that which activates the body.

Peace Pilgrim

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Peace Pilgrim

I don't eat junk foods and I don't think junk thoughts.

Peace Pilgrim

People see themselves as the center of the universe and judge everything as it relates to them.

Peace Pilgrim

A few really dedicated people can offset the masses of out of harmony people, so we who work for peace must not falter, we must continue to pray for peace and to act for peace in whatever way we can. We must continue to speak for peace and to live the way of peace; to inspire others, we must continue to think of peace and know that peace is possible. What we dwell upon we help bring to manifestation. One little person giving all of her time to peace makes news. Many people giving some of their time can make history.

Peace Pilgrim

The price of peace is to abandon greed and replace it with giving, so that none will be spiritually injured by having more than they need while others in the world still have less than they need.

Peace Pilgrim

Real peace is more than the absence of war; it is an absence of the causes of war.

Peace Pilgrim

One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.

Peace Pilgrim

Keep your feet on the ground and your thoughts at lofty heights.

Peace Pilgrim

My appointed work is to awaken the divine nature that is within.

Peace Pilgrim

As I lived up to the highest light I had, higher and higher light came to me.

Peace Pilgrim

I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Peace Pilgrim

Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.

Peace Pilgrim

World peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it

Peace Pilgrim

There is something to that old saying that hate injures the hater, not the hated.

Philip Caputo

I guess every generation is doomed to fight its war...suffer the loss of the same old illusions, and learn the same old lessons on its own.

Peter Stuyvesant

Praise the Lord, O England's Jerusalem: and Netherland's Zion, praise ye the Lord! He hath secured your gates, and blessed your possessions with peace, even here, where the threatened torch of war was lighted.

Peter Stuyvesant

I am sustained by the tranquility of an upright and loyal heart.

Peter Ustinov

Generals are fascinating cases of arrested development - after all, at five all of us wanted to be generals.

Peter Ustinov

Did you know that every two hours the nations of this world spend as much on armaments as they spend on the children of this world every year?

Peter Ustinov

Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich.

Pema Chodron

Rather than becoming more relaxed, you start pulling down the shades and locking the door. When you do go out, you find the experience more and more unsettling and disagreeable. You become touchier, more fearful, more irritable than ever. The more you try to get it your way, the less you feel at home.

Pema Chodron

Ego is like a room of your own, a room with a view with the temperature and the smells and the music that you like. You want it your own way. You'd just like to have a little peace, you'd like to have a little happiness, you know, just gimme a break.

Pema Chodron

Compassionate action starts with seeing yourself when you start to make yourself right and when you start to make yourself wrong. At that point you could just contemplate the fact that there is a larger alternative to either of those, a more tender, shaky kind of place where you could live.

Pema Chodron

The only reason we don't open our hearts and minds to other people is that they trigger confusion in us that we don't feel brave enough or sane enough to deal with. To the degree that we look clearly and compassionately at ourselves, we feel confident and fearless about looking into someone else's eyes.

Pema Chodron

We work on ourselves in order to help others, but also we help others in order to work on ourselves.

Pema Chodron

The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.

Phil Donahue

I'm not a pacifist. I'm not that brave.

Pearl Bailey

Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.