Quotes About Peacebuilding

#1. Throughout the 64-day campaign, events and activities for peace and nonviolence take place all around the world, highlighting existing peacebuilding initiatives and inspiring new year-round activities for a more peaceful, nonviolent, just and sustainable world.

Robert Alan Aurthur

#2. Is he ... " I look from Marcus, who walks slowly toward us, to Four, who inches slowly back, and everything comes together. Marcus had a son who joined Dauntless. His name was ... "Tobias.

Veronica Roth

#3. Whoever refuses to accept a part wants the whole, wants everything.

Sandor Marai

#4. What do you say to a man that by his own admission has now soul? Why would you say anything?

Cormac McCarthy

#5. Peace and love to all.

Meagan Earls

#6. At first glance a photograph can inform us. At second glance it can reach us.

Minor White

#7. All I could think was how when nothing made sense and hadn't for ages, you just have to grab onto anything you feel sure of. So as I felt his fingers loosening around my wrist, I just wrapped my own around them, tight, and held on

Sarah Dessen

#8. Fear runs our lives. It doesn't matter who you are. You have to understand your relationship with fear. Whether you're scared of getting into a relationship; or taking the new job; or a confrontation - you have to size fear up.

Chris Pine

#9. Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.

H.L. Mencken

#10. When religious groups in a conflict eliminate the personal element and perceive themselves as representatives of collectives, heir actions tend to become more "radical" and "merciless." (Ch.3, by Jaco Cilliers, p. 48)

David R. Smock

#11. Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.

Albert Schweitzer

#12. I emceed in metro Detroit throughout college, and even when I moved to New York, I would actually fly back on a Friday, emcee on a Saturday, and fly back on Sunday so that I could audition during the week. It was a big part of my life.

James Wolk

#13. The fact that religions, which usually have at their core a promotion of tolerance and peace, have been exploited to carry out violence clearly indicates that individuals and groups have not discovered the true "peace message" that is inherent in almost every religion. (by Cilliers, Ch. 3, p. 55)

David R. Smock

#14. It's so funny the world we live in now. The years where you are most fertile, those are also the fertile years for career and personal growth. And so you're not encouraged to get pregnant in your 20s. But the 30s are when the biology kind of has you by the ovaries, so to speak.

Staceyann Chin

#15. There is no corelation between life and death, except that life is the biggest lie we believed, while death; is the most certain truth.

Husam Wafaei