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Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘peace’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.” -Anton Chekhov
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“Success isn’t measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.” -Mike Ditka
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“You’ll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart.” -George Michael
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“If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.” -Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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“Chaotic people often have chaotic lives, and I think they create that. But if you try and have an inner peace and a positive attitude, I think you attract that.” -Imelda Staunton
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“If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.” -Marvin Gaye
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“Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.” -Victor Hugo
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“The basic problem with my love relationships with women is that my standards are so high – and they apply equally to both of us. I seek full-blast mutual intensity, fully fledged mutual acceptance, full-blown mutual flourishing, and fully felt peace and joy with each other. This requires a level of physical attraction, personal adoration,…
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“If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.” -Epictetus
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“There really can be no peace without justice. There can be no justice without truth. And there can be no truth, unless someone rises up to tell you the truth.” -Louis Farrakhan
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“Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.” -Albert Schweitzer
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“We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.” -William E. Gladstone
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“Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.” -Omar N. Bradley
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“Character… is a habit, the daily choice of right over wrong it is a moral quality which grows to maturity in peace and is not suddenly developed on the outbreak of war.” -Charles Wilson
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“The need for peace in Northern Ireland goes well beyond political stability. It now speaks to regional Europe and even global stability.” -Hillary Clinton
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“If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.” -Nhat Hanh
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“Love has its place, as does hate. Peace has its place, as does war. Mercy has its place, as do cruelty and revenge.” -Meir Kahane
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“An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.” -George Eliot
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“You can’t make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can’t make peace without Syria.” -Henry A. Kissinger
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“Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“Peace is more important than all justice and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.” -Martin Luther
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“Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.” -Thomas Merton
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“First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.” -Thomas a Kempis
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“Islam teaches tolerance, not hatred universal brotherhood, not enmity peace, and not violence.” -Pervez Musharraf
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“Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.” -Hannah Arendt
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“There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.” -Fran Lebowitz
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“The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.” -Norman Schwarzkopf
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“There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.” -Black Elk
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“War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.” -Niccolo Machiavelli
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“Our most important task is to transform our consciousness so that violence is no longer an option for us in our personal lives, that understanding that a world of peace is possible only if we relate to each other as peaceful beings, one individual at a time.” -Deepak Chopra
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“A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.” -Aesop
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“I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable.” -John Wooden
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“In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.” -Herodotus
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“Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.” -Napoleon Hill
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“The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.” -Karl Marx
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“There was a time in my life when I thought I had everything – millions of dollars, mansions, cars, nice clothes, beautiful women, and every other materialistic thing you can imagine. Now I struggle for peace.” -Richard Pryor
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“I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.” -Woody Allen
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“The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.” -Norman Vincent Peale
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“You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.” -Malcolm X
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“The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.” -Chanakya
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“I simply can’t build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death… I think… peace and tranquillity will return again.” -Anne Frank
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“My decision to end my marriage was such a risk to lose ratings and lose my fan base. I had to take that risk for my inner peace and to be happy with myself.” -Kim Kardashian
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“We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.” -Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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“If I am elected President of these United States, I will work with all my energy and soul to restore that America, to lift our eyes to a better future. That future is our destiny. That future is out there. It is waiting for us. Our children deserve it, our nation depends upon it, the…
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“Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.” -Richard M. DeVos
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“Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people’s, if we are always criticizing trivial actions – which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.” -Saint Teresa of Avila
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“There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenceless people.” -Nelson Mandela
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“I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas.” -Ron Paul
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“Never continue in a job you don’t enjoy. If you’re happy in what you’re doing, you’ll like yourself, you’ll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.” -Johnny Carson
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“Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else’s skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.” -Frederick Buechner
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“If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.” -Henry Miller
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“Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he has created through his past ways of life, with all those material interests and earthly ambitions.” -Sai Baba
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“While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.” -Francis of Assisi
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“Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.” -Theodore Roosevelt
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“There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.” -Albert Camus
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“You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once.” -Robert A. Heinlein
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“A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.” -Abraham Maslow
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“Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.” -Melody Beattie
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“Dear Lord we beg but one boon more: Peace in the hearts of all men living, peace in the whole world this Thanksgiving.” -Joseph Auslander
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“Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn’t enough and you have to go and get shot or something.” -John Lennon
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“A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“There was never a good war, or a bad peace.” -Benjamin Franklin
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“I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.” -Thomas Paine
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“To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.” -George Washington
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“Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.” -Erich Fromm
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“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” -George Orwell
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“When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.” -Jim Morrison
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“If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships – the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.” -Lao Tzu
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“Parents are not interested in justice, they’re interested in peace and quiet.” -Bill Cosby
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“We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.” -Joseph Roux
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“Never be in a hurry do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.” -Saint Francis de Sales
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“Whatever we are waiting for – peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance – it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.” -Sarah Ban Breathnach
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“I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.” -Charlie Chaplin
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“If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.” -Mahatma Gandhi
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“The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate… we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.” -John F. Kennedy
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“When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.” -Muhammad Ali
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“Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.” -William Shakespeare
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“Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.” -Thomas Jefferson
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“I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.” -Ronald Reagan
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“It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.” -George Bernard Shaw
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“The game of basketball has been everything to me. My place of refuge, place I’ve always gone where I needed comfort and peace. It’s been the site of intense pain and the most intense feelings of joy and satisfaction. It’s a relationship that has evolved over time, given me the greatest respect and love for…
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“I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.” -Helen Keller
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“Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!” -Patrick Henry
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“Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God – the rest will be given.” -Mother Teresa
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“Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.” -Buddha
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“God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.” -C. S. Lewis
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“Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.” -Dalai Lama
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“Avoid popularity if you would have peace.” -Abraham Lincoln
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“A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.” -Wayne Dyer
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“If you die you’re completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I’m not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I’ve got.” -Kurt Cobain
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“Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.” -Winston Churchill
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“Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure.” -Phyllis McGinley
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“Peace is when time doesn’t matter as it passes by.” -Maria Schell
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“You don’t have to have fought in a war to love peace.” -Geraldine Ferraro
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“The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two.” -Tony Snow
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“This enemy of peace in the world today is unlike any we have seen in the past, and our military is learning from, and building on, previous successes while carrying peace and freedom into the future.” -Mark Kennedy
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“The Dove, on silver pinions, winged her peaceful way.” -James Montgomery
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“One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible.” -Daniel Berrigan
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“Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.” -Dorothy Thompson
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“We want to take good tidings home to our people, that they may sleep in peace.” -Black Kettle
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“One cannot subdue a man by holding back his hands. Lasting peace comes not from force.” -David Borenstein
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“I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.” -Albert Einstein
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“It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.” -Thomas Fuller
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“I think it’s naive to pray for world peace if we’re not going to change the form in which we live.” -Godfrey Reggio
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“It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.” -Andre Gide
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“Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.” -Swami Sivananda
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“For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual.” -Irving Babbitt
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“Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.” -Friedrich Schiller
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“It has become impossible to give up the enterprise of disarmament without abandoning the whole great adventure of building up a collective peace system.” -Arthur Henderson
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“I don’t know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war.” -Georges Clemenceau
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“Peace hath higher tests of manhood, than battle ever knew.” -John Greenleaf Whittier
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“Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.” -John Andrew Holmes
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“The quest for peace begins in the home, in the school and in the workplace.” -Silvia Cartwright
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“I happen to dig being able to use whatever mystique I have to further the idea of peace.” -Garrett Morris
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“The only important thing I have to say is that my father never fought against his country.” -Zinedine Zidane
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“I’m concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet.” -Joan Jett
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“Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.” -William Hazlitt
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“I can promise you that women working together – linked, informed and educated – can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.” -Isabel Allende
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“Every goal, every action, every thought, every feeling one experiences, whether it be consciously or unconsciously known, is an attempt to increase one’s level of peace of mind.” -Sydney Madwed
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“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.” -Virginia Woolf
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“You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory.” -J. Donald Walters
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“War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.” -H. L. Mencken
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“If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.” -Napoleon Bonaparte
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“When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.” -Jimi Hendrix
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“The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.” -Carlos Santana
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“It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
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“Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.” -Lyndon B. Johnson
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“The experience of inner peace is the true gauge of accomplishment.”
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