Quotes About Being Peace

#1. Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace.

Nhat Hanh

#2. One of the books that has guided me in the last ten years of my life to help me to be that leader is the Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh's Being Peace. He's a Vietnamese monk. He was nominated for a Peace Prize by Dr. Martin Luther King.

Sandra Cisneros

#3. Without being peace, we cannot do anything for peace. If we cannot smile, we cannot help other people to smile. If we are not peaceful, then we cannot contribute to the peace movement.

Nhat Hanh

#4. For material progress and physical well being, peace of mind is of utmost importance.

Dalai Lama

#5. Being in love is highly overrated.
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Sondra Faye

#6. All conflicts can be resolved. Wars and conflicts are not inevitable. They are caused by human beings. There are always interests that are furthered by war. Therefore those who have power and influence can also stop them. Peace is a question of will.

Martti Ahtisaari

#7. Start a rumor about
peace taking over,
love being the new black,
and compassion going viral.

Khang Kijarro Nguyen

#8. There are no discords in my being.
Being is peace.

Myrtle Fillmore

#9. Unlike a lot of people, I don't feel powerless. I know I can do something. But anyone can do something, it's not about being special. It's about deciding to do it - to dive into work for peace and justice and care for everybody on the planet.

Patch Adams

#10. I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza.

Robert Indiana

#11. When we spend time together, I feel this peace that I don't get when you're not around. It's kind of like when you're a kid, and you put on fresh PJs after a bath and get into a made bed with clean sheets straight out of the dryer. That's what being with you feels like.

Jamie McGuire

#12. That's what being a demigod was all about, not quite belonging in the mortal world or on Mount Olympus but trying to make peace with both sides of their nature.

Rick Riordan

#13. Spiritual Practice involves being constantly aware

Radhe Maa

#14. 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

#15. Patience is being at peace with the process of life

Louise Hay

#16. Being good to people is always better than giving any sermon. Being kind & caring to others speaks much greater than any words can ever do.

Timothy Pina

#17. I am not at peace with myself; I am not always "something," and if for once I am "something," I pay for it by "being nothing" for months on end.

Franz Kafka

#18. Peace is not just a desired state of being for people, but also enables the flourishing of nature as well as human-created landscapes.

Norris Brock Johnson

#19. Keep Giving Jesus to the people, not by words but by your example, by being in love with Jesus, by radiating holiness and spreading his fragrance of love everywhere you go. Just keep the joy of Jesus as your strength, be happy and at peace.

Mother Teresa

#20. Being lazy does not mean that you do not create. In fact, lying around doing nothing is an important, nay crucial, part of the creative process. It is meaningless bustle that actually gets in the way of productivity. All we are really saying is, give peace a chance.

Tom Hodgkinson

#21. Medium clever," Simon acknowledged. "Like a cross between George Clooney in Ocean's Eleven and those MythBusters guys, but, you know, better-looking."
"I'm always so glad I have no idea what you're vacantly chattering about," said Jace. "It fills me with a sense of peace and well-being.

Cassandra Clare

#22. Peace is precious to us. It is the way of life we strive for with all the strength and wisdom we possess. But more precious than peace are freedom and justice. We will fight, if fight we must, to keep our freedom and to prevent justice from being destroyed.

Harry S. Truman

#23. I meditate
So that I can inundate
My entire being
With the omnipotent power of peace.

Sri Chinmoy

#24. Is the radiant joy of Being and the deep, unshakable peace that comes with it,

Eckhart Tolle

#25. Be happy
be in the attitude of ever being helpful to others. This will bring that peace within that is the promise from Him.

Edgar Cayce

#26. Huge difference between being happy at will, and chasing euphoric moments as an escape. One doesn't cost a dime, the other will tax your soul.

T.F. Hodge

#27. Being a senior doesn't automatically make one wise but the wise & foolish alike have things to teach us.

Allan Lokos

#28. I've made my peace with being in the spotlight, definitely.

Miranda Otto

#29. Israel desperately needs peace if it is to come anywhere close to being the 'light unto nations' of Jewish dreams.

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

#30. I studied what principles under-laid peace and prosperity and concluded the only way to achieve societal well-being was through a system of economic freedom.

Charles Koch

#31. We've let too much time go by. We've been busy with war instead of being busy with peace. And that's what space travel is all about. It's all about peace and exploration and wonder and beauty.

Ray Bradbury

#32. Peace is something more than the absence of war, although some nations would be thankful for that alone today. A durable and equitable peace system requires equal development opportunities for all nations.

Willy Brandt

#33. Every thoughtful, well-meaning and conscientious human being
should assume in time of peace,
the solemn and unconditional obligation
not to participate in any war, for any reason
or to lend support of any kind, whether direct or indirect.

Albert Einstein

#34. 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

#35. The first ingredient to being wrong is to claim that you are right. Geniuses have a knack for raising new questions. Hence by the public they are either admired for their creativity or, even more commonly so, detested for disturbing the daily peace of mind.

Criss Jami

#36. Peace can only be achieved by a contrite spirit, open communication and tolerance.

Shannon L. Alder

#37. I was floating around in the Garden of Eden, thrilled to be a human being at the Human-Be-In, knowing the world could be saved if we loved one another. I was draped in flowers, bestowed upon me by my brothers and sisters. I was laughing, loving, breathing Princess of Peace ...

Pamela Des Barres

#38. It's a lot to ask of one creature, it's a lot to ask, that he should first behave as if he were not, then as if he were, before being admitted to that peace where he neither is, nor is not, and where the language dies that permits of such expressions.

Samuel Beckett

#39. Enter any moment devoid of agenda, with an absence of posturing, and with your only intention being to send love to everyone you meet or even think of ...
Happiness, miracles and inner peace will follow.

Marianne Williamson

#40. Body, mind, and spirit are not separate parts. Instead they are more like lenses, or ways of focusing. The awareness of oneness, and the peace it brings, can be nurtured by anyone who is interested.

Marcey Shapiro

#41. If you awaken to this moment, the here and now, then you will know that great peace is generated from a sense of being, and from a connection with the Tao. When you clearly understand and experience the Now, you can create your own happiness through your connection with the divine, your True Self.

Ilchi Lee

#42. All works of love are works of peace.

Mother Teresa

#43. In our stillness, we acknowledge God's greatness and we are at peace in our life. Stillness saturates us in the Presence of God.

E'yen A. Gardner

#44. The only good thing in me is Christ. Without being spiritual in my life ... I am and have nothing!

Timothy Pina

#45. Love does more than bring peace where there is conflict. It brings a different way of being in the world.

Gary Zukav

#46. I think it is impossible for one human being really to know another without first knowing and being at peace with himself.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#47. Her mother had always said that women, being more at peace with themselves than men, needed fewer distractions from their hurts.

Clive Barker

#48. Perhaps this was the secret to being at peace: want nothing but what is given to you.

Amy Waldman

#49. All matters being spiritual; man or woman can only find peace when peace is realized from within.

T.F. Hodge

#50. But it is imperative, for our own survival, that we avoiid one another, and what more successful means of avoidance are there than words? Language will keep us safe from human onslaught, will express for us our regret at being unable to supply groceries or love or peace.

Janet Frame

#51. The real work of this life is not what we do every day from 9-5 ... The real work is to be passionate, be holy, be wild, be irreverent, to laugh and cry until you awaken the sleeping spirits, until the ground of your being cleaves and the universe comes flooding in.

Geneen Roth

#52. There is no human being on earth who does not have the capacity to offer the message of peace to the world at large. But what is needed now is the soulful willingness.

Sri Chinmoy

#53. Peace comes from being aligned with the present moment. Wherever you are, you feel that you are home - because you are home.

Eckhart Tolle

#54. Our state of mind, our state of being, and our outlook on life is contagious.

Rob Martin

#55. We have to believe that a creative being lives within ourselves, whether we like it or not, and that we must get out of its way, for it will not give us peace until we do.

Mary Caroline Richards

#56. May Christ the Savior give peace to Nigeria, where more blood is being shed and too many people are unjustly deprived of their possessions, held as hostages or killed.

Pope Francis

#57. Three things are needed
For humanity to co-exist:
Truth, peace and basic needs.
Everything else -
Is irrelevant.

Suzy Kassem

#58. There is something at work that's bigger than us. It's about having a trust in life and being at peace that things are happening the way they should. You do what you do as well as you can do it, and then you don't worry or agonize about the outcome.

Sherilyn Fenn

#59. The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul.

Alfred Adler

#60. Winning and being smart is not all that required, but the fulfillments of the Christian race brings peace ,joy to the mind and soul.

Jerry Y. Sarkw.

#61. For a long time, I really struggled with the idea of being an actor because I really felt that I should be in the Peace Corps.

Camryn Manheim

#62. Each and every human being on Earth has both the responsibility and the privilege of viewing themselves as Divine beings with the power to bring about peace.

James F. Twyman

#63. There are many ways to be alone, and some of them are almost divine. There is a feeling that comes from being at peace in such a solitary moment, sensing in a very deep way that the space you occupy is important and fulfills the measure of its creation by simply being

K.S.R. Kingworth

#64. There is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average
human being to supply any given army on any given day and the best at murder are those who preach against it
and the best at hate are those who preach love and the best at war finally are those who preach peace

Charles Bukowski

#65. Call a thing immoral or ugly, soul-destroying or a degradation to man, a peril to the peace of the world or to the well-being of future generations: as long as you have not shown it to be "uneconomic" you have not really questioned its right to exist, grow, and prosper.

E.F. Schumacher

#66. Peace is self-examination and being all right with what you see. Freedom is being able to open up to others without the worry of persecution. Happiness is seeing others for who they are and embracing the differences.

Leeann Smith

#67. Peace is more than just having a good night's sleep - although many people would think even that to be a miracle - but it is peace in every part of your being all the time. It is a place you live because of the One who lives in you.

Stormie O'martian

#68. You should never be afraid to be yourself, under any circumstances. The genre of cool is fleeting. What's cool today will not be cool a year from now. If you're yourself, you'll be at peace with yourself.

Jaleel White

#69. The only two important things in life are real love and being at peace with yourself.

Jonathan Carroll

#70. Freedom, peace, and inner joy will continue to elude us until we become aware of our real truth, without hiding ourselves or being ashamed of what we are.

Lynn Grabhorn

#71. It was a smile of total reassurance and gave all who saw it a feeling of intense well-being. Not joy, but something akin to a sleepy peace. A sort of not-a-worry-in-the-world sensation.

William Joyce

#72. Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not.

Eckhart Tolle

#73. As always, self-esteem had created an ability to be generous.

Gloria Steinem

#74. Much is being said about peace; and no man desires peace more ardently than I. Still I am yet unprepared to give up the Union fora peace which, so achieved, could not be of much duration.

Abraham Lincoln

#75. For a while, it was something to try to push at people, playing old murder ballads and being upset about everything I was seeing around me. But now I feel a lot more at peace with it.

Frank Fairfield

#76. None OF Days Are Ever Promised ... So Don't Waste Another, Being Angry And Upset Over What Was Done To You, You Don't Have Or Should Have Been.

Timothy Pina

#77. We live in terribly complex times. We are confronted by very serious problems. Some of us are faced with sickness, with economic difficulties, with worry and concern over many matters. Our refuge, our peace, our well-being lie in walking in the way of the Lord.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#78. I don't have to run the Peace Corps. I could live without seeing my picture in the newspapers and without being interviewed.

Sargent Shriver

#79. Being content with what you have already is an art form that leads to a peace that can't be replaced by anything else.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#80. Peace of mind is power of being.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#81. Stop Being Afraid Of What Can Go Wrong In Your Life & Start Putting Your Positive Energy Towards All That Can Go Right!

Timothy Pina

#82. Just before a game, I try to keep a clear mind so that I can focus better. I'm the kind of person who plays fast and relies a lot on intuition, so being at peace with myself is vital. Saying my daily prayers helps me achieve this heightened state of mind.

Viswanathan Anand

#83. If you're constantly being reminded of the ways in which your history and your narrative as a people were rooted in loss and decay, then you're in deep trouble. Once you make a certain kind of peace with the past, then you should be completely oriented towards speculation about the future.

Kerry James Marshall

#84. Nobody can keep on being angry if she looks into the heart of a pansy for a little while.

L.M. Montgomery

#85. If any harm is to come to Turkey's border security, if Turkey reaches the conclusion that this garden of peace is being threatened, it is prepared for any eventuality, we will take the necessary measures to reduce the risks related to cross-border security.

Ahmet Davutoglu

#86. In the '60s we fought for peace, when the Vietnam war was on. We were against the cops and against the politicians, and there was a lot of waving banners and all that. And I think in a way, just as they were enjoying that machoism of war, we were enjoying the machismo of being anti-war, you know?

Yoko Ono

#87. We are each responsible for our own emotional well being.

Alaric Hutchinson

#88. For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor in lying prostratebefore the temples of the gods, nor in sprinkling altars with the blood of beastsbut rather in being able to look upon all things with a mind at peace.

Lucretius

#89. Those few seconds when you're awake but empty. You forget where you are. What you are now, what you were before. It's all breath and heartbeat and blood moving. Like being in your mother's womb again. The peace of the void.

Rick Yancey

#90. Twenty seconds before a race, there's absolute focus. The key thing is to achieve relaxation, but at the same to have absolute total control. You've got to find the balance between being totally ready to go and being really at peace with yourself as well.

Cathy Freeman

#91. But wisdom means more than being intelligent, because it encompasses understanding, empathy, experience, inner peace, and intuition, and

Nicholas Sparks

#92. There are 2 versions of Self Image. Inner and Outer.
Get in touch with the inner self image and dispose of any concept of the outer world. Feel the energy that comes from this image and start being true from source of this energy. The source of god.

Matthew Donnelly

#93. I am the Olympic Ambassador. I always promote Olympics. I just want to say, Olympics is Olympics. [You] cannot mix with politics. Olympics for me is love, peace, [being] united.

Jackie Chan

#94. My stress resulted from not knowing God, not trusting him with my whole heart, seeking peace and purpose from the world instead of from him, and from being so afraid of change that I would rather suffer than obey.

Tracie Miles

#95. During the times we think we're being "unproductive," the seeds of new worlds are germinating within us, and they need peace to grow.

Martha Beck

#96. All my life I've taken photographs of people who are completely at peace being what they were in the situations I photographed them in.

Jock Sturges

#97. The acquirement and enjoyment of physical well-being, mental calm and spiritual peace are priceless to their possessors ...

Joseph Pilates

#98. Anyone who believes that the eternal question of war and peace in Europe is no longer there risks being deeply mistaken.

Jean-Claude Juncker

#99. Our character was being forged on the anvil of the difficult experiences we were facing. We knew that if we remained committed to God's purposes for us, we would be prepared to face the future.

George Foster

#100. The discovery that peace, happiness and love are ever-present within our own Being, and completely available at every moment of experience, under all conditions, is the most important discovery that anyone can make.

Rupert Spira