Top 100 A Little Peace Quotes
#1. I'll give you everything I've got for a little peace of mind
John Lennon
#2. The horse responds to comfort, they respond to peace better than about anything else you could do. All he wants you to do is just leave him alone. So if the horse responds to you and you give him a little peace and comfort that means more to him than anything.
Buck Brannaman
#3. We all lose somebody we care about and want to find some comforting way of dealing with it, something that will give us a little closure, a little peace.
Mitch Albom
#4. That they may have a little peace, even the best dogs are compelled to snarl occasionally.
William Feather
#6. Give me a little peace.
A little? Why so modest? How about eternal peace? Now, there's a thought.
James Goldman
#7. Don't we deserve a little peace? I pull her back to me, deluding myself into thinking that if I can just hug her enough, love her enough, I can vanquish her fears.
Alyson Noel
#8. It goes against an artist's grain to retire. But whether he retires or not, he will age ... What work will get done in the remaining time? ... Can he find a little peace in this twilight? Or must he still rush on, restlessly and hungrily, to the very end?
Eric Maisel
#9. Letting go a little brings a little peace. Letting go a lot brings a lot of peace. Letting go completely brings complete peace.
Ajahn Chah
#10. We are like a restless sea, finding a little peace here and a little pleasure there, but nothing permanent and satisfying. So the search continues!
Billy Graham
#11. Knock on the doors with your head, Peregrin Took,' said Gandalf. 'But if that does not shatter them, and I am allowed a little peace from foolish questions, I will seek for the opening words.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#12. Do everything with a mind that lets go. Don't accept praise or gain or anything else. If you let go a little you a will have a little peace; if you let go a lot you will have a lot of peace; if you let go completely you will have complete peace.
Ajahn Chah
#13. A poem by Margot Bickel
A little peace
within the last hours of the almost bygone day
a little silence
between the days
so that the nascent yesterday does not get in the past
and tomorrow is lived for today
Margot Bickel
#14. Some things you can't apologize for, you just have to try to get around them," Hattie replied. "For your own sake too, so you can have a little peace.
Ayana Mathis
#15. I just hope he went someplace where he could find a little peace ... somewhere between nowhere and goodbye ...
F.X. Toole
#16. 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
#17. He who finds a thought that lets us a little deeper into the eternal mystery of nature has been granted great peace.
Albert Einstein
#18. I don't care how little your country is, you got a right to run it like you want to. When the big nations quit meddling then the world will have peace.
Will Rogers
#19. I Have Learned Why People Work So Hard To Succeed: It Is Because They Envy The Things Their Neighbors Have. But It Is Useless. It Is Like Chasing The Wind ... It Is Better To Have Only A Little, With Peace Of Mind, Than Be Busy All The Time With Both Hands, Trying To Catch The Wind
Anonymous
#20. He often said that he wished that he could be a stone mason like me. He said a stone mason would have time and peace in which to think things out. I did not tell him that a stone mason thinks of little but stones and mortar.
Kurt Vonnegut
#21. Although Kit and Rafe had met in the peace movement, marching, organizing, making no nukes signs, now they wanted to kill each other. They had become, also, a little pro-nuke.
Lorrie Moore
#22. Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.
David Sarnoff
#23. People get a little sidelined thinking that fame and fortune is going to bring them happiness, peace and contentment in their lives. Everyone thinks they want to be famous until the paparazzi are in their face, and then they're asking, 'Just give me some privacy.'
Linda Thompson
#24. I kept praying that I might be able to prevent a repetition of this stupidity called war. I have tried to keep the promise I made to myself, but the progress that the world is making toward peace seems like the crawling of a little child, very halting and slow.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#25. The weak mind is irritated at a little: the strong mind bears it like a rock which moveth not, though a thousand breakers dash upon it, and cast their pitiful malice in spray upon its summit.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#26. If [his] peace of mind depended on me promising to be a sweet and careful little girl, he'd be smart to get used to chaos.
Sharon Green
#27. I feel like a little tug in a great storm. But I'm fastened to a great ship on ahead. It's going into port and can't lose it's way.
Patricia St. John
#28. There are two things that cannot be achieved in life unless you close your eyes a little bit. And that's love and peace. If you want perfection you won't obtain either of them.
Shimon Peres
#29. It's surprisingly nice out here, peaceful and pretty-strange to be standing in the middle of a little garden while enclosed by the massive stone walls of the prison, like being at the exact center of a hurricane, and finding peace and silence in the middle of so much shrieking damage.
Lauren Oliver
#30. Life didn't explode in the sunshine and pretty places. Life took the strongest root with a little bit of rain and with a whole lot of shit for fertilizer. Although love could grow in times of peace, it tempered in battle.
Karen Marie Moning
#31. Gratitude not only encourages our hearts, it produces peace. And we could all use a little more peace these days.
Jen Lilley
#32. The human mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with a similar energy.
William Beveridge
#33. There is very little peace for a man with a body buried in his backyard.
Jamie Mason
#34. We are all connected; our thoughts affect the whole universe. Every small thought of peace will make the world a little more peaceful.
Debasish Mridha
#35. Blank cartridges should never be used against a mob, nor should a volley be fired over the heads of the mob even if there is little danger of hurting persons in the rear. Such things will be regarded as an admission of weakness, or an attempt to bluff, and may do more harm than good.
Douglas MacArthur
#36. My mom had me at 16 and took me every place she went. I remember going on peace marches. She tried to take me to Woodstock - it was pouring rain. It was on my birthday, and I was crying so much in the car they turned the car around and dumped me at my grandmother's house ... I had a little attitude.
Debi Mazar
#37. She read, at peace with the world and happy as only a little girl could be with a fine book and a little bowl of candy..
Betty Smith
#38. Have little,
Need less:
This is the way
To inner peace.
Surrender is a journey
From the outer turmoil
To the inner peace.
Peace
Is in inner awakening,
And this inner awakening
We must share
With the rest of the world.
Sri Chinmoy
#39. Learning lessons is a little like reaching maturity. You're not suddenly more happy, wealthy, or powerful, but you understand the world around you better, and you're at peace with yourself. Learning life's lessons is not about making your life perfect, but about seeing life as it was meant to be.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
#40. The brainless serenity of charwomen and janitors working late at night came over us. In a messy world we were at least making our little corner clean.
Kurt Vonnegut
#41. I'd had no idea what life or love was. Life didn't explode in the sunshine and pretty places. Life took the strongest root with a little bit of rain and a whole lot of shit for fertilizer. Although love could grow in times of peace, it temperred in battle.
Karen Marie Moning
#42. What with the reviews of critics, the sarcasms of one's friends, the reproaches of one's own taste, there's precious little peace after publishing a book ...
Winifred Holtby
#43. Only when you can feel contempt for your own priceless little ego, only then can you achieve the true, broad peace of selflessness, the merging of your spirit with the vast collective spirit of mankind. There is no room for the love of others within the tight, crowded miser's hole of a private ego.
Ayn Rand
#44. All we want in this life is peace, prosperity and a little paper.
Q-Tip
#45. What if I said she sold me one evening?" His brow furrowed. "One evening of what?" She gave a little shrug. "Simplicity. Ease. Peace." One side of his mouth lifted in a half smile. "I would say, let's buy a lifetime of it.
Sarah MacLean
#46. I envy you your peace of mind, your clean conscience, your unpolluted memory. Little girl, a memory without blot of contamination must be an exquisite treasure-an inexhaustible source of pure refreshment: is it not?
Charlotte Bronte
#47. What robs you from peace? Usually it's the so-called little things in life, like being late to work, or needing a parking place, or trying to find your glasses, your car keys when you are running out the door, those so called little stressors.
Doreen Virtue
#48. China's Premier Zhao Ziyang, for all of his billion constituents, seemed in the evening's lovely flow like a favorite uncle, smiling a little too much, wanting to be a bit American, talking about peace and pork chops.
Hugh Sidey
#49. A little child in Ethiopia will die before this song is through.
Rod Stewart
#50. I can say that what you know is just a nothing or let's say thats some kind a small of peace of paper. I also know like you... or probably little more but it's nothing compared to everything.
Deyth Banger
#51. As long as you cultivate stillness, you may enjoy peace, but whenever your mind is a little bit disturbed, deluded thoughts will set in again.
Sogyal Rinpoche
#52. He says, 'Anything could be happening down there, but up here you just wouldn't know it.'
I know what he means. It could be pandemonium in all those little houses, everyone's dreams in a mess. But up here feels peaceful. Clean.
Jenny Downham
#53. The poem is always the last resort. In it the poet makes a world in little, and finds peace, even though, under complete focused emotion, the evocation be far more bitter than reality, or far more lovely.
Louise Bogan
#54. I think I am typical in believing that the Peace Corps trained us brilliantly and then did little more except send us into the bush. It was not a bad way of running things.
Paul Theroux
#55. My greatest wish for humanity is not for peace or comfort or joy. It is that we all still die a little inside every time we witness the death of another. For only the pain of empathy will keep us human. There's no version of God that can help us if we ever lose that.
Neal Shusterman
#56. My Solitude is my Treasure, the best thing I have. I hesitate to go out. If you opened the little gate, I would not hop away - but oh how I sing in my gold cage.
A.S. Byatt
#57. I am going to fight - I, a socialist and Syndicalist - so that we shall make an end to war, so that the little ones of France will sleep in peace, and the women go without fear.
Philip Gibbs
#58. We've forgotten that chasing happiness or peace only causes it to seem further away. It's a little like wild kittens. You can chase them all day long and not catch them. But, if you sit quietly and allow them to come to you, you will tame them in time.
Simon Gray
#59. The heart of a virtuous person has settled down and he does not rush about at things. A person of little merit is not at peace but walks about making trouble and is in conflict with all.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo
#60. That I might always be a little bit vicious and restless. That I might crave peace, but never a cage of comfort.
Sarah J. Maas
#61. Every time we hold our tongues instead of returning the sharp retort, show patience with another's faults, show a little more love and kindness, we are helping to stock-pile more of these peace-bringing qualities in the world instead of armaments for war.
Connie Foster
#62. Every year, you will trade a little of your perfect skin and your ability to look great without exercising for wisdom and peace and groundedness, and every year the trade will be worth it. I promise.
Shauna Niequist
#64. Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. I have only begun to learn content and peace of mind since I have resolved at all risks to do this.
Thomas Henry Huxley
#65. A little honest swearin' wipeth away anger and bringeth peace to the soul.
Elmer Kelton
#66. There are a number of qualities which are important for mental peace, but from the little experience I have, I believe that one of the most important factors is human compassion and affection: a sense of caring.
Dalai Lama
#67. If you think peace is a common goal, that goes to show how little you know
Morrissey
#68. He that resigns his peace to little casualties, and suffers the course of his life to be interrupted for fortuitous inadvertencies or offences, delivers up himself to the direction of the wind, and loses all that constancy and equanimity which constitutes the chief praise of a wise man.
Samuel Johnson
#69. Sometimes all it takes is a little watering everyday and a sunny day to follow, that's how weeds become flowers and new dawns rise - why would it be any less then for a human life?
Nikki Rowe
#70. Put a little love in your heart, and the world will be a better place.
Jackie DeShannon
#71. We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to it's security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.
Adlai E. Stevenson
#72. Over all the mountain tops is peace. In all treetops you perceive scarcely a breath. The little birds in the forest are silent. Wait then; soon, you too, will have peace.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#73. If in this hell of a world one can bring a little joy and peace even for a day into the heart of a single person, that much alone is true; this I have learnt after suffering all my life; all else is mere moonshine ...
Swami Vivekananda
#74. I guess I like who I am now. I'd just like to have a little more internal peace. I'm sure everybody would.
Axl Rose
#75. For the sake of my country, and perhaps a little for the sake of my soul, I have given up the deep peace of being in opposition.
Rebecca West
#76. Being with Demetri wasn't the absence of pain, it was the added presence of peace, making it easier and easier for that little part of my heart to heal again.
From Pull: A Seaside Novel
Rachel Van Dyken
#77. During a Middle East peace talk you insulted the Iraqi ambassador." "He was a pervert who liked little girls.
Lee Goldberg
#78. It takes as little as 1% of a population to create positive change, and I believe that if 100 million people underwent a personal transformation in the direction of peace, harmony, laughter, love, kindness, and joy ... the world would be transformed.
Deepak Chopra
#79. I personally think that what the big (writers) have in common is a fierce moral sensibility, which is unquenchable and they are all burning with the same anger at the way the world is.
The little ones have made a peace with it, and the bigger ones can't make any peace.
Arthur Miller
#80. We being satiate with continual wars, let the desire of peace a little move us.
Desiderius Erasmus
#81. After a short silence the doctor raised himself a little in his chair and asked if Tarrou had an idea of the path to follow for attaining peace. "Yes, he replied. "The path of sympathy.
Albert Camus
#82. Children, old people, vagabonds laugh easily and heartily: they have nothing to lose and hope for little. In renunciation lies a delicious taste of simplicity and deep peace.
Matthieu Ricard
#83. Revenge is a human trait, one that has been the cause of the destruction of civilisations many times over. But the goblins live on in peace and harmony, taking little notice of us and our mistakes.
Count Anton Dance Of The Goblins
#84. In the older folklore, faeries were frightening beings. In fact, it was such a bad idea to get their attention that people would use flattering euphemisms for them, such as 'the people of peace,' 'the little people,' and 'the good neighbors.'
Holly Black
#85. There is much in nature against us. But we forget:
Take nature altogether since time began,
Including human nature, in peace and war,
And it must be a little more in favor of man ...
Robert Frost
#86. It's to be a person who's able to shoot little arrows into sacred cows and knock politicians off their pedestals, to look out for hypocrisy, advocate for all sorts of things from social justice to peace.
Jonathan Shapiro
#87. I write in a hurry, because the little one, who has been sleeping a long time, begins to call for me. Poor thing! when I am sad, I lament that all my affections grow on me, till they become too strong for my peace, though they all afford me snatches of exquisite enjoyment.
Mary Wollstonecraft
#88. That's not an easy message to deliver whether it's in war and peace or in the economic arena, people don't want to be told that all their problems have been solved and everything good so it's a little bit tricky.
Vin Weber
#89. Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents.
Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.
Mother Teresa
#90. Christmas makes me schmaltzy. I'm proud to be level-headed, even a little tough most of the time. But once a year I like to believe that peace on earth may be possible and calories don't count.
Sue Merrell
#91. Haunted by demons of the past, hounded by demons not yet met, the nevermore and evermore left her little peace." ~A Tale of Two Women
Kimberly Kinrade
#92. I finish a lot of lyrics while I'm in the water and it's always pretty constructive for me to get out in the water. I'm not actually writing the words down, but I have time to think about words, and doing a lot of surfing usually gives me a little space and peace of mind to finish things up.
Jack Johnson
#93. Nobody can keep on being angry if she looks into the heart of a pansy for a little while.
L.M. Montgomery
#94. I'll think nice things about my
wife, she looks so small there
under the blanket, a little
lump, that's all
(death, you take me first, please)
this lady needs a gentle space of
peace
without me).
Charles Bukowski
#95. One of these days I'm gonna love me
And feel the joy of sweet release
One of these days I'll rise above me
And at last I'll find some peace
And then I'm gonna smile a little
And maybe even laugh a little
But one of these days ...
I'm gonna love me
Tim McGraw
#96. Anxiety and worry work in opposition to inner peace. When you are worried or anxious about something, even something that must be faced and embraced as a process, you leave little room for God's peace. As
Brian Houston
#97. As she read, at peace with the world and happy as only a little girl could be with a fine book and a little bowl of candy, and all alone in the house, the leaf shadows shifted and the afternoon passed.
Betty Smith
#98. The labor of self-love is a heavy one indeed. Think whether much of your sorrow has not arisen from someone speaking slightingly of you. As long as you set yourself up as a little god to which you must be loyal, how can you hope to find inward peace.
A.W. Tozer
#99. I do think there is this danger that our society has made its peace with decline. I'd like to jolt them out of their complacency a little bit.
Peter Thiel
#100. Every grievance you hold hides a little more of the light of the world from your eyes until the darkness becomes overwhelming. Everything you forgive restores that light. So ask yourself, who is it that you are really hurting?
Donna Goddard
