Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Pierre Trudeau

The politicians, who once stated that war was too complex to be left to the generals, now act as though peace were too complex to be left to themselves.

Phyllis McGinley

Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure.

Rabindranath Tagore

Thou hast made me endless, such is thy pleasure. This frail vessel thou emptiest again and again, and fillest it ever with fresh life.

Rabindranath Tagore

At the immortal touch of thy hands my little heart loses its limits in joy and gives birth to utterance ineffable.

Rabindranath Tagore

This little flute of a reed thou hast carried over hills and dales, and hast breathed through it melodies eternally new.

Rabindranath Tagore

Thy infinite gifts come to me only on these very small hands of mine. Ages pass, and still thou pourest, and still there is room to fill.

Queen Victoria

Oh, that peace may come.

Queen Elizabeth II

It has perhaps always been the case that the waging of peace is the hardest form of leadership of all.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let there be worse cotton and better men.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We rail at trade, but the historian of the world will see that it was the principle of liberty; that it settled America, and destroyed feudalism, and made peace and keeps peace; that it will abolish slavery.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Is there a difference? Yes. We are in harmony with nature, but never at peace.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Conformity is the ape of harmony.

The big powers are traveling on the dangerous road of armament. The signpost just ahead of us is 'Oblivion.' Can the march on this road be stopped? Yes, if public opinion uses the power it now has.

Scott Lynch

Crooked Warden, I will fear no darkness for the night is yours," muttered Locke, pointing the first two fingers of his left hand into the darkness. The Dagger of the Thirteenth, a thief's gesture against evil. "Your night is my cloak, my shield, my escape from those who hunt to feed the noose. I will fear no evil, for you have made the night my friend." "Bless the Benefactor," said Jean, squeezing Locke's left forearm. "Peace and profit to his children.