Peace Quotes

"Go home and love someone."

Upon receiving the Nobel prize, Mother Teresa was asked:
"What can one ordinary person do to promote world peace?"
She replied: "Go home and love someone."

Love without measure, one day at a time, the one person who is before you at any one moment.
~ Mother Theresa

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St. Theresa's Prayer

May today there be peace within.
May you trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.
May you not forget the infinite possibilities that are born of faith.
May you use those gifts that you have received, and pass on the love that has been given to you....
May you be content knowing you are a child of God.
Let this presence settle into your bones, and allow your soul the freedom to sing, dance, praise and love.
It is there for each and every one of you.

"Saint Theresa is known as the Saint of the Little Ways. Meaning she believed in doing the little things in life well and with great love She is also the patron Saint of flower growers and florists. She is represented by roses.”
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Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
~ Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)

Another possible source of guidance for teenagers is television, but television's message has always been that the need for truth, wisdom and world peace pales by comparison with the need for a toothpaste that offers whiter teeth *and* fresher breath.
~ Dave Barry (1947 - ), "Kids Today: They Don't Know Dum Diddly Do"

There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub.
~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
~ Moshe Dayan (1915 - 1981)

There is plenty of peace in any home where the family doesn't make the mistake of trying to get together.
~ Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
~ John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), In a speech at the White House, 1962

And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.
~ Bible, Isaiah 32:17

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;
Where there is sadness, joy.
~ Saint Francis of Assisi (1181 - 1226), "Prayer of St Francis" (attributed)

Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray (1811 - 1863)

He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows nor judge all he sees.
~ Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
~ Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)

Mercy and truth are met together: righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
~ Bible, Psalm 85:10.

Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.
~ Bible, Proverbs 3:17.

All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.
~ Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
~ Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968), "Strength to Love"

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds. . . to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves, and with all nations.
~ Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
~ H.P. Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"

If the Prince of Peace should come to earth, one of the first things he would do would be to put psychiatrists in their place.
~ Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)

We always prefer war on our terms to peace on someone else's.
~ Author Unknown

The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.
~ Pope John XXIII

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.
~ Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

The motivation for all personal behavior is to produce a sense of "FEEL GOOD," a sense of inner peace and well being. To expect a person to go against his desire to feel good or as good as he can feel under any momentary condition is illogical and irrational. In the observation of human behavior, one will notice every human act is a response to a personal need. This is true whether one signs a million dollar contract, scratches one's nose, rolls over in bed, or just day dreams his life away. People will do things which seem contrary to this concept, but the bottom line is they perceive some kind of payoff which will make them feel good. And the payoff is almost always emotional.
When you ask people why they want to be financially independent, they might say that they could buy things without having to worry about where the money will come from. And when they worry, they don't FEEL GOOD. A drug addict, a compulsive eater, an alcoholic and anyone with a compulsive habit will continue with their habits because at the moment of action they believe and feel it will make them feel good. That is why breaking compulsive habits are so difficult.
~ Sidney Madwed

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