pjthompson | Entries tagged with peace

Random quote of the day:

“Grant yourself a moment of peace,
and you will understand
how foolishly you have scurried about
Learn to be silent,
and you will notice that
you have talked too much.
Be kind,
and you will realize that
your judgement of others was too severe.”

—Ancient Chinese Proverb

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Random quote of the day:

“I can’t get around this dilemma: I have a horror of troubles, but they whip me up, they make me talented. Peace and well-being, on the contrary, paralyze me. Either be a nobody, or everlastingly plagued.

—Jules Renard, The Journal of Jules Renard, 1889 (tr. Louise Bogan and Elizabeth Roget)

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Random quote of the day:

“An act of violence against any innocent person eludes martial and moral justification, disgraces the millions of Americans and people throughout the world who have united in peaceful protest against police brutality and racial inequality, undermines the blood our ancestors’ spilled as they turned the other cheek, and dishonors our proud inheritance of nonviolent resistance.”

—Benjamin Crump, “Statement from the Brown Family Attorneys,” March 12, 2015

Random quote of the day:

“It is easier to make war than make peace.”

—Georges Clemenceau, “Discours de Paix,” Verdun, July 20, 1919

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Random quote of the day:

“The only way to abolish war is to make peace heroic.”

—James Hinton, Philosophy and Religion, ed. Charlotte Haddon

Random quote of the day:

“The fruit of silence is tranquility.”

—Moroccan proverb

Random quote of the day:

“Being is burning, in the truest sense, and if there is to be any peace it will come about through being, not having.”

—Henry Miller, “The Wisdom of the Heart”

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Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

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“A human being is a part of the whole, called by us “Universe,” a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest—a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. The striving to free oneself from this delusion is the one issue of true religion. Not to nourish the delusion but to try to overcome it is the way to reach the attainable measure of peace of mind.

—Albert Einstein, letter of condolence to Robert S. Marcus, February 2, 1950

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Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

Random quote of the day:

“If the olive trees knew the hands that planted them, their oil would become tears.”

—Mahmoud Darwish

Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

Random quote of the day:

“God wants nothing of you but the gift of a peaceful heart.”

—Meister Eckhart, as translated in The Enlightened Mind: An Anthology of Sacred Prose, ed. Stephen Mitchell

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Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

Random quote of the day:

“A peace which depends only upon fear is nothing but a suppressed war.”

—Henry Van Dyke, Ideals and Applications

Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

Random quote of the day:

“The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth in the present moment, to appreciate the peace and beauty that are available now.”

—Thich Nhat Hanh, Touching Peace