Quotes about Peace

If we want to be happy and joyful, then we must be determined to let go of attachment. Free from attachment, we are no longer caught in the circle of samsara—not burdened by anxiety nor restlessly searching for what is unwholesome. The absence of attachment leads to true peace and joy.

There is no way to happiness - happiness is the way.

The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.

Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace

It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.

I will no longer wound myself with the thoughts and questions that have surrounded me like thorns: that is a penance You do not ask of me.

Violence is not completely fatal until it ceases to disturb us.

Peace cannot be built on exclusivism, absolutism, and intolerance. But neither can it be built on vague liberal slogans and pious programs gestated in the smoke of confabulation. There can be no peace on earth without the kind of inner change that brings man back to his right mind. p. 31

There is only one problem on which all my existence, my peace, my happiness depend: to discover myself in discovering God. If I find Him I will find myself and if I find my true self I will find Him.

The peace produced by grace is a spiritual stability too deep for violence — it is unshakeable

What a thing it is to sit absolutely alone in the forest at night.

The man who fears to be alone will never be anything but lonely, no matter how much he may surround himself with people. But the man who learns, in solitude and recollection, to be at peace with his own loneliness, and to prefer its reality to the illusion of merely natural companionship, comes to know the invisible companionship of God