936 private quotes tagged peace

“Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.” — Nelson Mandela

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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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“To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.” — Buddha

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“He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.” — John F. Kennedy

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“On all the peaks lies peace.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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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“War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.” — Thomas Mann

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“I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.” — Charlie Chaplin

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“Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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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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“I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.” — Woody Allen

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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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“Peace if possible, truth at all costs.” — Martin Luther

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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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“We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.” — Dalai Lama

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“Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.” — Dalai Lama

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“Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.” — Victor Hugo

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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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“Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.” — Amelia Earhart

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“Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.” — John F. Kennedy

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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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“If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.” — Thomas Paine

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