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Agriculture is for living, mind culture is for life. Skills are for shaping material things so that they cater more for the comfort of man, studies are for shaping attitudes feelings desires emotions and impulses of man so that they may confer more peace more joy and more fortitude on man.

I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.

Anne Frank

In the innermost recess of your heart there is a reservoir of peace where you must take refuge.

Sai Baba

We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

It is better to have only one son from whom the whole family can derive support and peacefulness.

Chanakya

When you make your peace with authority you become authority.

Jim Morrison

This attachment is not God's gift. Bliss is God's gift. God's gift is Peace. God's gift is Truth. That is the God's gift. All the rest are passing clouds.

Sai Baba

My decision to end my marriage was such a risk to lose ratings and lose my fan base. I had to take that risk for my inner peace and to be happy with myself.

Kim Kardashian

So long as the sugar is on the tongue you feel the sweetness in taste. Similarly so long as the heart has love peace and devotion you feel the bliss.

Sai Baba

The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes but in peace are only fit for fools.

Benjamin Disraeli

It is the harmony peace and mutual love between men and women that brings happiness and peace to the family. People want happiness in the family but they do not lead exemplary lives. The fault lies with both the husband and the wife.

Sai Baba

If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Peace if possible truth at all costs.

Martin Luther

The soldier above all others prays for peace for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

Douglas MacArthur

When we have done our best we should wait the result in peace.

John Lubbock

Aspire to live in peace not in plenty.

Sai Baba

No compromise with the main purpose no peace till victory no pact with unrepentant wrong.

Winston Churchill

Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.

Norman Vincent Peale

Though force can protect in emergency only justice fairness consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Then every man of every clime That prays in his distress Prays to the human form divine Love Mercy Pity Peace.

William Blake

A characterless man is like a pot with many holes - useless for carrying water or for storing it. Renounce and win Peace.

Sai Baba

For he hears the lambs innocent call. And he hears the ewes tender reply. He is watchful while they are in peace. For they know when their Shepherd is nigh.

William Blake

Christmas is not a time nor a season but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill to be plenteous in mercy is to have the real spirit of Christmas.

Calvin Coolidge

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

If you live on the level of the Body and the Individual you will get entangled in food fun and frolic ease envy and pride. Forget it ignore it overcome it -- You will have peace joy and calm. In the Divine Path there is no chance of failure, it is the Path of Love.

Sai Baba

Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.

Douglas MacArthur

The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and security will be met - or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.

Colin Powell

I was motivated by just thinking that if you had all this external success that everyone would love you and everything would be peaceful and wonderful.

Alanis Morissette

In South Africa we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world who through the use of non-violent means such as boycotts and divestment encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime.

Desmond Tutu

Open the gates of wisdom tear the veil of ignorance enter the abode of Divine Bliss. Rest in peace forever.

Sai Baba

I think more tolerance more people having more access to a chance to be literate and a chance to stay healthy makes for a more peaceful planet.

Henry Rollins

I'm at peace.

Christina Aguilera

LIFE is a mosaic of pleasure and pain - grief is an interval between two moments of joy. Peace is the interlude between two wars. You have no rose without a thorn, the diligent picker will avoid the pricks and gather the flower. There is no bee without the sting, cleverness consists in gathering the honey nevertheless.

Sai Baba

Thinking with Love results in Peace.

Sai Baba

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

At one point I was just perceived as only being angry but now I'm being perceived as angry peaceful and spiritual.

Alanis Morissette

Courageous people do not fear forgiving for the sake of peace.

Nelson Mandela

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.

Theodor W. Adorno

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Fair peace becomes men, ferocious anger belongs to beasts.

Ovid

I - Want Sai Baba

Vast and fearsome as the human scene has become personal contact of the right people in the right places at the right time may yet have a potent and valuable part to play in the cause of peace which is in our hearts.

Winston Churchill

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

George Bernard Shaw

Democracies are indeed slow to make war but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable rather than a vindictive peace.

Reinhold Niebuhr

The Bomb brought peace but man alone can keep that peace.

Winston Churchill

Little islands of human happiness peace and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them.

P. J. O'Rourke

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

John F. Kennedy

It is easier to lead men to combat stirring up their passion than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

Andre Gide

He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.

Moliere

A people free to choose will always choose peace.

Ronald Reagan

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

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

John Lennon

If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death becoming someone else is the best hope I've got.

Kurt Cobain

Mind can have peace only when it merges in the Absolute Consciousness Primal Cause and the Unchanging Existence.

Sai Baba

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.

Robert A. Heinlein

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another

Winston Churchill

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself.

Nelson Mandela

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Friedrich Schiller

Give a child love laughter and peace not AIDS.

Nelson Mandela

To presume that either from wealth or from kith and kin you can derive mental peace is a great error. Such peace only comes from God.

Sai Baba

Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.

Victor Hugo

Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.

The life of inner peace being harmonious and without stress is the easiest type of existence.

Norman Vincent Peale

I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

Harry S. Truman

By peace western countries mean the interval between two wars. That is no peace! When man thinks speaks and does good - peace will ensue.

Sai Baba

One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

Lao Tzu

Peace commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.

Thomas Jefferson

The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.

Barack Obama

Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.

Desmond Tutu

If virtue promises happiness prosperity and peace then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us progress is always an approach toward it.

Epictetus

Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family.

Kin Hubbard

Truth righteousness peace and love Sai Baba

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

If they want peace nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable.

John Wooden

You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.

Henry A. Kissinger

I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom limited government and minding our own business overseas.

Ron Paul

Is the intention pure selfless and born out of love? Is it based on truth? Does it result in peace? If so it is a right action.

Sai Baba

While you are proclaiming peace with your lips be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.

Francis of Assisi

Wars are of course as a rule to be avoided, but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

Theodore Roosevelt

Heart is the centre of Love and peace.

Sai Baba

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

Thomas Merton

They alone are sons who are devoted to their father. He is a father who supports his sons. He is a friend in whom we can confide and she only is a wife in whose company the husband feels contented and peaceful.

Chanakya

Political liberty the peace of a nation and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!

Honore de Balzac

The PEACE that pervades the heart can never be shaken for any reason, only PEACE of this kind is worthy of the name.

Sai Baba

No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace or ensure it of victory in time of war.

Calvin Coolidge

The purpose of all wars is peace.

Saint Augustine

Modesty and devotion to God are real jewels for woman kind. The feminine is the foundation on which a peaceful and happy world is to be raised.

Sai Baba

Truth sacrifice and peace are predominant qualities in women.

Sai Baba

A musician must make music an artist must paint a poet must write if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

Abraham Maslow

Peace has its victories no less than war but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.

Kin Hubbard

I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.

Woody Allen

Why can't people just learn to live together in peace and harmony?' said Arthur. / Ford gave a loud very hollow laugh. / 'Forty-two!' he said with a malicious grin 'No, doesn't work. Never mind.

Douglas Adams

Guilt for being rich and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something.

John Lennon

Be good keep your feet dry your eyes open your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.

Thomas Merton

The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Then I realized that secrecy is actually to the detriment of my own peace of mind and self and that I could still sustain my belief in privacy and be authentic and transparent at the same time. It was a pretty revelatory moment and there's been a liberating force that's come from it.

Alanis Morissette

If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.

George C. Marshall

Love as Understanding is Peace.

Sai Baba

We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression, we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations.

Franklin Pierce Adams

Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity

George Carlin

There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind and one of the most important is faith which cannot be acquired without prayer.

John Wooden

A man who is not afraid is not aggressive a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free a peaceful man.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a "peace conference " you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.

Joseph Stalin

Civilization will not last freedom will not survive peace will not be kept unless a very large majority of mankind unite together to defend them and show themselves possessed of a constabulary power before which barbaric and atavistic forces will

Winston Churchill

If you identify yourselves with the body that you carry about with you you are inviting sorrow and suffering to overwhelm you instead of the joy and peace which are awaiting to bless you.

Sai Baba

The proof of rain is in the wetness of the ground, the proof of devotion is in the peace the aspirant has attained.

Sai Baba

Peace is more important than all justice, and peace was not made for the sake of justice but justice for the sake of peace.

Martin Luther

Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me give me liberty or give me death!

Patrick Henry

He insulted me, he cheated me, he beat me, he robbed me' - those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

Buddha

My therapist told me the way to achieve true inner peace is to finish what I start. So far today I have finished 2 bags of M&M's and a chocolate cake. I feel better already.

Dave Barry

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

So, what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level.

Alan Watts

Look at the world with the vision of peace love and compassion. Then the whole world will appear loving and peaceful.

People always make war when they say they love peace.

God is day and night winter and summer war and peace surfeit and hunger.

Heraclitus

What is needed today is that we should lead a life of good quality. The fostering of sterling character and good conduct is the need of the world. Once we have greater numbers of such people of good quality the country and the world will become prosperous and peaceful.

Peace can only be won the hard way by eliminating violence and greed from the hearts of individual.

Sai Baba

Concern for one Sai Baba

Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

William Hazlitt

Peace is shore less ocean - it is the light that illuminates the world.

Sai Baba

We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God.

Thomas Merton

As this long and difficult war ends I would like to address a few special words to the American people: Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible.

If you conduct yourself with peace love and compassion then you are God.

Sai Baba

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.

Thomas Fuller

They said this mystery never shall cease: the priest promotes war and the soldier peace

William Blake

Parents are not interested in justice they're interested in peace and quiet.

Bill Cosby

A mind at peace a mind centered and not focused on harming others is stronger than any physical force in the universe.

Wayne Dyer

Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction.

George W. Bush

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint and he understands ours then we can sit down and work out our differences.

Harry S. Truman

I just want you to know that when we talk about war we're really talking about peace.

George W. Bush

Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

George Eliot

Action with love is right conduct. Speak with love and it becomes truth. Thinking with love results in peace. Understanding with love leads to non-violence. For everything love is primary. Where there is love there is no place for hatred.

Sai Baba

Man derives all the joy and peace that he needs from within himself and not from sources outside himself. So the best spiritual discipline is strengthen the inward vision.

Sai Baba

The person who is wedded to Truth and Love would need nothing more for peace and happiness. When Creation is witnessed through these values it becomes holy scripture an inspiring lesson and guide.

Sai Baba

Peace is a daily a weekly a monthly process gradually changing opinions slowly eroding old barriers quietly building new structures.

John F. Kennedy

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set then there'd be peace.

John Lennon

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

George Orwell

In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in everybody.

Gertrude Stein

It is more difficult to organize a peace than to win a war, but the fruits of victory will be lost if the peace is not organized.

Aristotle

Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.

William Shakespeare

If we have not peace within ourselves it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.

Abraham Lincoln

If civilization is to survive we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples of all kinds to live together in the same world at peace.

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things man will not himself find peace.

Albert Schweitzer

Man seeks joy in far off places and peace in quiet spots, but the spring of joy is in his heart. the haven of peace is in himself. Even when he walks on the moon man has to take with him his fears his anxieties his prejudices and his pet aversions.

Sai Baba

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

Winston Churchill

Our most important task is to transform our consciousness so that violence is no longer an option for us in our personal lives that understanding that a world of peace is possible only if we relate to each other as peaceful beings one individual at a time.

Deepak Chopra

A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly peaceful and pleasant but perhaps without the seed of things to come.

Eric Hoffer

Peace is not only better than war but infinitely more arduous.

George Bernard Shaw

Peace of mind for five minutes that's what I crave.

Alanis Morissette

Where there is charity and wisdom there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

Francis of Assisi

We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace.

George W. Bush

How can people be made happy in a petty kingdom? What peace can we expect from a rascal friend? What happiness can we have at home in the company of a bad wife? How can renown be gained by instructing an unworthy disciple?

Chanakya

Study the lives of our great women who were models of patience, fortitude, compassion and sacrifice. I desire that you should take up the reins of leadership and bring peace and prosperity to the nation by leading ideal lives.

Sai Baba

Do not damage your mental peace by receiving the letter and reading the contents. Refuse to receive it. You have a chance of correcting the wrong-doers too, accept it and join the gang of mischief-makers. So be warned!

Sai Baba

The value of righteousness is expressed through the body. This is related to the physical sheath. Peace can be experienced only in the mental plane.

Sai Baba

The arts of peace are great And no less glorious than those of war.

William Blake

A virtuous character is the lamp which illumines the path to peace and joy.

Sai Baba

For Mercy has a human heart, Pity a human face, Love the human form divine, and Peace the human dress.

William Blake

Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel. We are not trying to keep out of trouble, we are trying to preserve the foundations on which peace may be rebuilt.

Woodrow Wilson

Peace cannot be achieved through violence it can only be attained through understanding.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Egypt has been a partner of the United States over the last 30 years has been instrumental in keeping the peace in the Middle East between Egypt and Israel which is a critical accomplishment that has meant so much to so many people.

Hillary Clinton

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with, something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace, some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

Let's drink to the spirit of gallantry and courage that made a strange Heaven out of unbelievable Hell and let's drink to the hope that one day this country of ours which we love so much will find dignity and greatness and peace again.

Noel Coward

Lord make me an instrument of your peace, where there is hatred let me sow love, where there is injury pardon, where there is doubt faith, where there is despair hope, where there is darkness light, and where there is sadness joy.

Francis of Assisi

To Mercy Pity Peace and Love / All pray in their distress.

William Blake

Peace can be got only through Faith, Faith is the spring of Joy. But now we see Sorrow wherever we cast our eyes. Why does this happen ? Because man has lost Faith. He has no Faith in himself. How then can he acquire Ananda ? How can a person how has not got Faith enough to live happily for a few days win the Grace of God ?

Sai Baba

Peace People clamor I want Peace But they do not let go of I(ego) or Want(desire). I and Want deal with the outside world. Peace is inside pieces are outside.

Sai Baba

At best spiritual voices help us replace madness with clarity & violence, with compassion and peace. But we will live up to the promise only if we overcome the temptation to promote our own narrow comfort and individual peace of mind. If we fail this challenge we will not get a spiritual "new age" but a spiritual dead end.

Joseph Campbell
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