Cultivating Peace Quotes

#1. Avoiding occasions of expense by cultivating peace, we should remember also that timely disbursements to prepare for danger frequently prevent much greater disbursements to repel it

George Washington

#2. I believe all religions pursue the same goals, that of cultivating human goodness and bringing happiness to all human beings. Though the means may appear different, the ends are the same.

Dalai Lama

#3. Living as he now lived was like reading a good book in a poor translation ...

Henry James

#4. True, lasting peace comes not through stamping out the ignorance of others, but through cultivating acceptance with ourselves.

Johnathan Jena

#5. I actually have a number of lovely watches from the International Watch Company.

Kevin Spacey

#6. Inner peace is more a question of cultivating perspective, meaning, and wisdom even as life touches you with its pain.

Rachel Naomi Remen

#7. One can beg, buy, be presented with and find love in the streets, but it can never be stolen.

Hermann Hesse

#8. The extreme socialists desire to run every nation as a single business concern.

John B. S. Haldane

#9. When grace combines with wrinkles, it is admirable. There is an indescribable light of dawn about intensely happy old age ... The young person is handsome, but the old, superb.

Victor Hugo

#10. True happiness comes from having a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved by cultivating altruism, love and compassion, and by eliminating anger, selfishness and greed.

Dalai Lama

#11. The spirit or life spark which animates this manifestation could be called God.

Arthur Young

#12. The first jazz pianist I heard was Thelonious Monk. My father was listening to an album of his called 'Monk's Dream' almost every day from the time I was born.

Benny Green

#13. I think that as I had children, I have five sons, and they got into video games and were the prime ages through the development of video games. It was so much fun seeing them play the games and seeing it through their eyes.

John Lasseter

#14. It's scary when you get to a point where you write these songs that people like, and then you think, "Am I ever going to be able to write something better than that?"

Bethany Cosentino

#15. And when our bodies rise again,
they will be wildflowers, then rabbits,
then wolves singing a perfect love
to the beautiful, meaningless moon.

Philip Appleman

#16. Innocent droplets of rain
Make almost all events
Quite natural.
(from "A Rainy Day")

Visar Zhiti

#17. I think that my regrets mostly have to do with my relationship with my ex-girlfriend. Every once in a while, you get those flashback memories of conversations you had with your exes, and you just, like, wince when you're walking down the street. Something occurs to you, 'Oh, no, I said that.'

Mike Birbiglia

#18. We're seriously going to drive to Jersey with a bird wearing a bra in the backseat?

H.M. Ward

#19. Life of scarcity teaches creativity.

Jag Randhawa

#20. Whatever we focus our attention on will expand in our experience. If we focus on cultivating the higher qualities of love, compassion, joy and peace, they will expand - not only in our own lives, but also into the world beyond.

Deepak Chopra

#21. And, in a funny way, each death is different and you mourn each death differently and each death brings back the death you mourned earlier and you get into a bit of a pile-up.

Nigella Lawson