From toil he wins his spirits light, From busy day the peaceful night; Rich, from the very want of wealth, In heaven’s best treasures, peace and health.

World peace is one project that we have to do together.

You don’t kill your way to peace.

The greatest thing is to be at peace with oneself.

Tut, Tut, looks like rain

At night, when the objective world has slunk back into its cavern and left dreamers to their own, there come inspirations and capabilities impossible at any less magical and quiet hour. No one knows whether or not he is a writer unless he has tried writing at night.

The history of India for many centuries had been happier, less fierce, and more dreamlike than any other history. In these favorable conditions, they built a character – meditative and peaceful and a nation of philosophers such as could nowhere have existed except in India.

I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.

Many people think excitement is happiness…. But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.

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

Make no mistake: peaceful madmen are ahead of the future.

Peace, like charity, begins at home

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships – the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace

Peace on earth, goodwill toward men’ – democracy must cling to that message. For it is my deep conviction that democracy cannot live without that true religion which gives a nation a sense of justice and moral purpose.

Peace, like war, can succeed only where there is a will to enforce it, and where there is available power to enforce it.

Today we are faced with the preeminent fact that if civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships—the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together and work together in the same world, at peace

Unless the peace that follows recognizes that the whole world is one neighborhood and does justice to the whole human race, the germs of another world war will remain as a constant threat to mankind.

The structure of world peace cannot be the work of one man, or one party, or one nation…it must be a peace which rests on the cooperative effort of the whole world

A life in Christ is a life of restfulness. There may be no ecstasy of feeling, but there should be an abiding peaceful trust. Your hope is not in yourself; it is in Christ. Your weakness is united to His strength, your ignorance to His wisdom, your frailty to His enduring might….Let the mind dwell upon His love, upon the beauty, the perfection of His character.

Nothing is stronger than a peaceful mind.

Peace is our gift to each other.

Should have known you was trouble from the first kiss

Yeah, you make me feel like I’ve been locked out of heaven For too long

In the center of a hurricane there is absolute peace and quiet. There is no safer place than in the center of the will of God

Jesus did not promise to change the circumstances around us. He promised great peace and pure joy to those who would learn to believe that God actually controls all things.

As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.

The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.

Surfing soothes me, it’s always been a kind of Zen experience for me. The ocean is so magnificent, peaceful, and awesome. The rest of the world disappears for me when I’m on a wave.

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Peaceful coexistence cannot be limited to the powerful countries if we want to ensure world peace

I’m a peaceful man with bad intentions.

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.

I feel I am privileged to express hope. The hope is this: that we shall have peace throughout the world, that we shall abolish wars and settle all international differences at the conference table, and that we shall abolish all atom and hydrogen bombs before they abolish us. The future of the modern world demands modern thinking. Therefore, let us use the full force of our intelligence instead of obsolete homicidal methods in settling our international differences.

Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease from pain.

Compassion naturally creates a positive atmosphere, and as a result, you feel peaceful and content.

Many hours are spent with men. How many with your Maker?

My opinion is that protesting, there’s no problem with it, as long as it is peaceful without violence, without vandalism.

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.

While I do not think it was so intended, I have always been of the opinion that this turned out to be much the best for me. I had no national experience. What I have ever been able to do has been the result of first learning how to do it. I am not gifted with intuition. I need not only hard work but experience to be ready to solve problems. The Presidents who have gone to Washington without first having held some national office have been at great disadvantage

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

Ceasing to do evil, cultivating the good, purifying the heart: this is the teaching of the Buddhas.

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

You yourself must strive. The Buddhas only point the way.

Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves.

A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.

Reality is apparent when one ceases to compare. There is “what is” only when there is no comparison at all, and to live with what is, is to be peaceful

Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it. If we’re frantic, life will be frantic. If we’re peaceful, life will be peaceful. And so our goal in any situation becomes inner peace.

I saw but one glaring truth: These are not natural disasters but man-made tragedies for which there is only one man-made solution-peace.

I know the human being and fish can co-exist peacefully.

I know that my people cannot possibly profit from the oppression of any other group which seeks the right to peaceful existence

Close the day with prayer so that you may have a peaceful night free from dreams and nightmares.

Optimism, when applied to your life, develops strength and peace within you.

A life with a peaceful center can weather all storms.

A peaceful mind generates power.

Depending upon the words we use and the tone in which we use them, we can talk ourselves into being nervous, high-strung, and upset. By our speech, we can also achieve quiet reactions. Talk peaceful to be peaceful.

Develop serenity and quiet attitudes through your conversation. Depending upon the words we use and the tone in which we use them, we can talk ourselves into being nervous, high-strung, and upset. By our speech, we can also achieve quiet reactions. Talk peaceful to be peaceful.

I truly believe that if we keep telling the Christmas story, singing the Christmas songs, and living the Christmas spirit, we can bring joy and happiness and peace to this world

Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.

Peace is preferable to war. But it’s not an absolute value, and so we always ask, “What kind of peace?

If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and that he can be redeemed only by divine grace through the crucified Christ, then we shall find peace of mind never granted to philosophers. He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.

What’s the point of the war? Why, oh why can’t people live together peacefully? Why all this destruction?

There was never a bad peace or a good war.

Peace is absurd: Fascism does not believe in it.

Fascism, the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity, quite apart from political considerations of the moment, believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Let us remember we are all part of one American family. We are united in common values, and that includes belief in equality under the law, basic respect for public order, and the right of peaceful protest.

We need to keep making our streets safer and our criminal justice system fairer – our homeland more secure, our world more peaceful and sustainable for the next generation.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Let us forgive each other—only then will we live in peace.

Dogs are our link to paradise. They don’t know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring–it was peace.

Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.