Quotes about Peace
I can promise you that women working together — linked, informed and educated — can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.
— Isabel Allende
Because I have time to spare, and for the first time in my life nobody expects anything of me. I don't have to prove anything. I'm not rushing anywhere; each day is a gift I enjoy to the fullest.
— Isabel Allende
My old age is a precious gift. My brain still works. I like my brain. I feel lighter. I am free of self-doubt, irrational desires, useless complexes, and other deadly sins that are not worth the trouble. I am letting go…letting go. I should have started earlier.
— Isabel Allende
The wise man desires nothing; he does not judge, he makes no plans, he keeps his mind open and his
— Isabel Allende
I am no longer tormented by an excess of discipline, as I was before.
— Isabel Allende
Lucia argued something similar. She gave as an example the Chihuahua, Marcelo, who lived eternally grateful in the present, accepting whatever might happen without worrying about any future misfortune that might add to all those he had previously encountered in his life as an abandoned dog. "Too
— Isabel Allende
As far as a nuclear weapons-free zone, you know, when the lion lies down with the lamb, and you don't need a new lamb every day to satisfy the lion, then we might have this kind of transformation in the Middle East.
— Benjamin Netanyahu
We sit by and watch the barbarian. We tolerate him in the long stretches of peace, we are not afraid. We are tickled by his irreverence; his comic inversion of our old certitudes and our fixed creed refreshes us; we laugh. But as we laugh we are watched by large and awful faces from beyond, and on these faces there are no smiles.
— Hilaire Belloc
That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm quiet interchange of sentiments.
— Samuel Johnson
Let nothing disturb thee, Let nothing affright thee, All things are passing, God changeth never.
— Teresa of Avila
After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.... Economy is always a guarantee of peace.
— Calvin Coolidge
Do not lose your inward peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.
— Francis de Sales