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As we cultivate peace and happiness in ourselves,
we also nourish peace and happiness in those we love.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Related topics: Inspirational Zen
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile,
but sometimes your smile
can be the source of your joy.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
We are here to awaken from the illusion of our separateness.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
If in our daily life we can smile,
if we can be peaceful and happy,
not only we, but everyone will profit from it.
This is the most basic kind of peace work.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
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We really have to understand the person we want to love.
If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
It is not desirable to cultivate
a respect for the law,
so much as for the right.
- Henry David Thoreau
To be a beneficial presence in the world,
cultivate a conscious awareness of your unity with Spirit.
Expect good in your own life.
Desire good for all others as well.
See and affirm abundant blessings of peace,
health, and plenty for everyone.
Align your thoughts with peace and happiness,
and realize that these qualities are your true nature.
- Kathy Juline
Let there be peace on earth.
And let it begin with me.
- Jill Jackson Miller
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa
The life of inner peace,
being harmonious and without stress,
is the easiest type of existence.
- Norman Vincent Peale
When I see Spirit in everything, Peace is at hand.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let me bring peace into moments of chaos.
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One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
All we are saying is give peace a chance.
- John Lennon
Peace begins with me.
- Anonymous
I Receive ALL of Life with Thanksgiving -
I have gratitude for EVERYTHING
that has ever occurred to bring me to this moment.
I give thanks for the joys and the sufferings,
the moments of peace and the flashes of anger,
the compassion and the indifference,
the roar of my courage and the cold sweat of my fear.
I accept gratefully the entirety of my past and my present life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be Counterpoint to the Clamor of the World.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
My Peace is Counterpoint to the Clamor of the World.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We will not learn how to live together in peace
by killing each other's children.
- Jimmy Carter
Ask yourself to slow down.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Peace is its own reward.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
An "enemy" is a mirage -
an image of self reflected on the sands of Hell.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I Dream This Day of Wondrous Things,
of Peace and Hope and Pride.
I Dance My Dance with Life Today,
I'm Filled with Love Inside.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you want to make peace with your enemy,
you have to work with your enemy.
Then he becomes your partner.
- Nelson Mandela
May love and laughter light your days,
and warm your heart and home.
May good and faithful friends be yours,
wherever you may roam.
May peace and plenty bless your world
with joy that long endures.
May all life's passing seasons
bring the best to you and yours.
- Irish Blessing
While you are proclaiming peace with your lips,
be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
- St. Francis of Assisi
The hope of a secure and livable world
lies with disciplined nonconformists
who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Peace is the ultimate blessing.
- Jewish traditional
What can you do to promote world peace?
Go home and love your family.
- Mother Teresa
Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Each and every human being on Earth
has both the responsibility and the privilege
of viewing themselves as Divine beings
with the power to bring about peace.
- James Twyman
Learn to be calm and you will always be happy.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Freedom from desire leads to inner peace.
- Lao-Tzu
Peace begins with a smile.
- Mother Teresa
We shall find peace. We shall hear angels.
We shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
- Anton Chekhov
Imagine all the people living life in peace.
You may say I'm a dreamer,
but I'm not the only one.
I hope someday you'll join us,
and the world will be as one.
- John Lennon
We can never obtain peace in the outer world
until we make peace with ourselves.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
When you find peace within yourself,
you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.
- Peace Pilgrim
The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If you wish to experience peace,
provide peace for another.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek,
but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Guide our feet into the way of peace.
- Luke 1:79
Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I lay aside the battles within my own mind,
and grant myself peace.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The world has always been in an uproar,
and it always will be.
Choose Peace. Choose to live with Peace.
Choose to interact peacefully with everyone -
especially those whose instinct is not to be peaceful.
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Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
- The Buddha
A bad peace is better than a good war.
- Yiddish Proverb
I attain Inner Peace by Intending my future, and never Expecting it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The key to happiness is inner peace.
The greatest obstacles to inner peace are disturbing emotions
such as anger, attachment, fear and suspicion,
while love and compassion and a sense of universal responsibility
are the sources of peace and happiness.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
We must learn to live together as brothers
or perish together as fools.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
We must teach our children to resolve
their conflicts with words, not weapons.
- William J. Clinton
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
- St Francis of Assisi
Today... maybe I can take one step
on that profoundly complex path to peace.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Better than a thousand hollow words,
is one word that brings peace.
- The Buddha
Inner peace is a choice -
make that choice today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You are within God.
God is within you.
- Peace Pilgrim
Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.
- The Buddha
Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit.
Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever,
even if your whole world seems upset.
- Saint Francis de Sales
The Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi
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.
O Divine Master,
grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
- although attributed to St. Francis of Assisi,
this prayer first appeared (written in French) in 1912
You can choose to be peaceful right here and now ...
it has nothing to do with what other people do or think.
- Gerald Jampolsky
To live a creative life
we must lose our fear of being wrong.
- Joseph Chilton Pearce
I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.
- Gerald Jampolsky
The practice of forgiveness is our most important
contribution to the healing of the world.
- Marianne Williamson
Know that you hold the power to
bring peace into moments of chaos.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where ignorance is our master,
there is no possibility of real peace.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
You create stress in your life by getting angry,
and you can instantly remove
that stress by granting forgiveness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Grant That I May Radiate Thy Light, Thy Love,
Thy Healing, Thy Joy, and Thy Peace,
to All Those Around Me
and All Those in My Thoughts
This Day and Ever More.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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