Peace
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A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
A life of peace, purity, and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.
Peace is the beauty of life. It is sunshine. It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother, the joy of a father, the togetherness of a family. It is the advancement of man, the victory of a just cause, the triumph of truth.
Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
Whatever we are waiting for — peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance — it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.
Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.
Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.
We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
Care less for your harvest than for how it is shared and your life will have meaning and your heart will have peace.
I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness; I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too. I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.
Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. I am not unmindful of the fact that violence often brings about momentary results. Nations have frequently won their independence in battle. But in spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace.
When the sense of solidarity has been developed to such a point that each one feels the cause of all others as his own, we shall be drawing near to international and to social peace.
Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.
In War: Resolution. In Defeat: Defiance. In Victory: Magnanimity. In Peace: Good Will.
The United Nations' founders understood that decisions affecting war and peace should happen only by consensus, and with America's consent, the veto by Security Council permanent members was enshrined in the United Nations Charter. The profound wisdom of this has underpinned the stability of international relations for decades.
