Quotes about Peace

A calm ocean is safer than a raging river.

If you want to stop an argument, close your mouth.

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards.

I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.

Art to be art must soothe.

We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.

Nourish it with good works, give it peace in solitude, get it strength in prayer, make it wise with reading, enlighten it by meditation, make it tender with love, sweeten it with humility, humble it with penance, enliven it with psalms and hymns, and comfort it with frequent reflections upon future glory.

I want time in which to walk quietly over the earth, among uncrazed men. I want time in which to build a house, inhabit it, create a past with meaning. I want time in which to seek and find love. I want time. I want to be unhurried, uncaught. I want time in which to sleep and waken, in which to dream the truth of my being on earth. Time.

If we don't let go of our resentment and regret, we become prisoners of the past.

Instead of attacking, focused on taking away the stick.

Rest and be thankful.

Be mild, and cleave to gentle things, thy glory and thy happiness be there.