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Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

They will not let you have peace, they don't want you to have anything they don't have themselves.

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war.

Preventing war is the work of politicians, establishing peace is the work of educationists.

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war.

The universe is conspiring in every moment to bring me happiness and peace.

The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.

Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgi...

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The only way to gain power in a world that is moving too fast is to learn to slow down. And the only...

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Marianne WilliamsonThe Gift of Change: Spiritual Guidance for a Radically New Life

It is always easier to promote war than peace, easier to end the peace than end the war, because pea...

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Mark KurlanskyNonviolence: Twenty-Five Lessons from the History of a Dangerous Idea

If peace had a smell,it would be the smell of a library full of old, leather-bound books.

Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should ha...

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I do not hope for a world at peace, all of it, all the time. I do not believe in the perfectibility ...

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Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

I accept this award today with an abiding faith in America and an audacious faith in the future of m...

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Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.

God is able to give you the power to endure that which cannot be changed... Why be anxious? Come wha...

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Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoi...

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Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree

Admitting the weighty problems and staggering disappointments, Christianity affirms that God is able...

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We must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal we seek, but it is a means by which we a...

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We should never forget that everything Adolph Hitler did in Germany was "legal" and everything the H...

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I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism a...

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A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our p...

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Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love ca...

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Martin Luther King, Jr.A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

We did not hesitate to call our movement an army. But it was a special army, with no supplies but it...

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Violence is not the answer, it doesn’t work any more. We are at the end of the worst century in whic...

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The task of the mediator is to help the parties to open difficult issues and nudge them forward in t...

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If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.

Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing...

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Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love.

Shall I tell you why young men love war? . . . In peace, there are a hundred questions with a thousa...

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Dogs laugh but they laugh with their tails.

The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity.

Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can neve...

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GRACEGRACE is the GIFT of God's Riches' the PEACE of God, The LOVE of God, The HOPE of God.

Love has its place, as does hate. Peace has its place, as does war. Mercy has its place, as do cruel...

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Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes availa...

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When Great Trees FallWhen great trees fall,rocks on distant hills shudder,lions hunker downin tall g...

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On this platform of peace, we can create a languageto translate ourselves to ourselves and to each o...

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Maya AngelouCelebrations: Rituals of Peace and Prayer

Every person needs to take one day away.  A day in which one consciously separates the past from the...

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Maya AngelouWouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

The ancient Jewish people gave the world the vision of eternal peace, of universal disarmament, of a...

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The game of basketball has been everything to me. My place of refuge, place I've always gone where I...

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It was a wonderful feeling, a sense of release and boundless freedom that he had never known before....

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Michael EndeThe Neverending Story

You can bomb the world to pieces, but you can't bomb it into peace. Power to the peaceful.

I'm not an idealist. I know we're not going to be living in a world that's peace and love all the ti...

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Elric knew that everything that existed had its opposite. In danger he might find peace. And yet, of...

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It was a strange feeling going into a church I did not know for a service that I did not really beli...

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Living with a dog is one way to retain something of a child's spirit.

It wasn't so long ago that I was a working mom myself. And I know that sometimes, much as we all hat...

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We should try to leave the world a better place than when we entered it. As individuals, we can make...

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Dogs are our link to Paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on ...

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Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on ...

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How would I explain to him that I couldn’t make peace with him? How would I explain that if I did I ...

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There are five people you meet in heaven," the Blue Man suddenly said. "Each of us was in your life ...

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Mitch AlbomThe Five People You Meet in Heaven

You have peace," the old woman said, "when you make it with yourself.

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Mitch AlbomThe Five People You Meet in Heaven

If our nation goes over a financial Niagara, we won't have much strength and, eventually, we won't h...

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He won’t stop the war until you give him the peace prize.

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Mohammed HanifA Case of Exploding Mangoes

There are no contests in the Art of Peace. A true warrior is invincible because he or she contests w...

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When life is victorious, there is birth; when it is thwarted, there is death. A warrior is always en...

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The art of Peace I practice has room for each of the world's eight million gods, and I cooperate wit...

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One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right w...

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To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the ...

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The true meaning of the 'samurai' is one who serves and adheres to the power of love.

Warriorship is none other than the vitality that sustains all life.

That idea of peace and love toward humanity shouldn't be nationalistic or denominational. It should ...

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I come from a family of very devout, praying people. That idea of peace and love toward humanity sho...

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If you want to make peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

In the home begins the disruption of the peace of the world.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money...

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Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.

The Simple PathSilence is PrayerPrayer is FaithFaith is LoveLove is ServiceThe Fruit of Service is P...

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If we have no peace it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.

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Mother TeresaThe Joy in Loving: A Guide to Daily Living

I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.

The word 'Islam' means 'peace.' The word 'Muslim' means 'one who surrenders to God.' But the press m...

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Come forward as servants of Islam, organize the people economically, socially, educationally and pol...

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We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop acc...

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We have undoubtedly achieved Pakistan, and that too without bloody war, practically peacefully, by m...

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Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, ...

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Islam expect every Muslim to do this duty, and if we realise our responsibility time will come soon ...

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You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy, Islamic social ju...

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As we live our truths, we will communicate across all barriers, speaking for the sources of peace. P...

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Always our wars have been our confessions of weakness

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Muriel RukeyserThe Life of Poetry

We are against war and the sources of war. We are for poetry and the sources of poetry.

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Muriel RukeyserThe Life of Poetry

Peace at home, peace in the world.

Heroes who shed their blood and lost their lives! You are now lying in the soil of a friendly countr...

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True peace required the presence of justice, not just the absence of conflict.

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which co...

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Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all ...

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Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.

There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non...

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How wild it was, to let it be.

Sometimes war is necessary to teach us the value of peace. Sometimes you need to learn the real valu...

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Peace is not just the absence of conflict; peace is the creation of an environment where all can flo...

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If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your pa...

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If I preached unity, I must act like a unifier, even at the risk of perhaps alienating some of my ow...

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If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your pa...

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