Quotes about peace

Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way – everything is interdependent, not absolute. So that view is very helpful to maintain a peace of mind because the main destroyer of a peaceful mind is anger.

14th Dalai Lama

We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

Anton Chekhov

Men need only trust in Christ’s teaching and obey it, and there will be peace on earth.

Leo Tolstoy

Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.

Thich Nhat Hanh

A teacher of fear can’t bring peace on earth. We have been trying to do it that way for thousands of years. The person who turns inner violence around, the person who finds peace inside and lives it, is the one who teaches what true peace is. We are waiting for just one teacher. You’re the one.

Byron Katie

When forces of oppression come to maintain themselves in power against established law, peace is considered already broken.

Che Guevara

A victor only breeds hatred, while a defeated man lives in misery, but a man at peace within lives happily, abandoning up ideas of victory and defeat.

Buddha

It is only the warlike power of a civilized people that can give peace to the world.

Theodore Roosevelt

People are always going to have opinions, and people have a right to their opinions, particularly when you’re the First Lady; you’re representing the nation. I’ve tried to be at peace with the choices that I make first, and then be open to everyone else’s reflection.

Michelle Obama

When the forces of oppression come to maintain themselves in power against established law; peace is considered already broken.

Che Guevara