Peaces comes from within. Do not seek it without.
- Topic: Peace, Self
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Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.
Life is short. Time is fast. No replay, no rewind. Enjoy every moment as it comes.
Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.
Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care.
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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.
If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace, and this single reflection, well applied, is sufficient to awaken every man to duty.
He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face.
There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism… The one absolutely certain way of brining this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.
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.
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.
If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.
Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?
If someone succeeds in provoking you, realize that your mind is complicit in the provocation.
The whole universe is contained within a single human being—you.
No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
It is of particular value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
