Peace Quotes

"Peace is the condition under which the virtues are most easily exercised."

"It's great to clear your psychic decks so you can go into the weekend ready for refreshment and recreation, with nothing on your mind. Ch. 8"

"Receive without conceit, release without struggle."

"The garden of the world has no limits except in your mind."

"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it."

"Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures."

"A slight sound at evening lifts me up by the ears, and makes life seem inexpressibly serene and grand. It may be Uranus, or it may be in the shutter. July 10-12, 1841"

"But in the end, one needs more courage to live than to kill oneself."

"Without peace, the mind cannot find its way to the truth."

"Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul."

"The wound is the place where the Light enters you."

"Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established."

"Great acts are made up of small deeds."

"True freedom is the peace that comes from knowing you can handle whatever life throws at you."

"Gradually the village murmur subsided, and we seemed to be embarked on the placid current of our dreams, floating from past to future as silently as one awakes to fresh morning or evening thoughts."

"Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better."

"The whole of life is further divided into two parts, business and leisure, war and peace."

"Everything is as if it were a dream, or a mere shadow."

"Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love."

"The cautious seldom err."

"If you want to accord with the Tao, just do your job, then let go."

"To be at peace is to be free from the need for external validation."

"An early morning walk is a blessing for the whole day. April 20, 1840"

"Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being."

"The wise man aims at the removal of pain and the establishment of peace."

"Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart."

"Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death."

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

"Do you have the patience to wait until your mud settles and the water is clear?"

"Rationality is the path to peace; it clears the fog of emotion and reveals the truth."

"Sphere Music — Some sounds seem to reverberate along the plain, and then settle to earth again like dust; such are Noise, Discord, Jargon. But such only as spring heavenward, and I may catch from steeples and hilltops in their upward course, which are the more refined parts of the former, are the true sphere music — pure, unmixed music — in which no wail mingles. August 5, 1838"

"Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal."

"In times of peace, the mind should be nourished by philosophy."