Peaceful Quotes - Page 15

• What is better than a peaceful man? What is worse than an aggressive man?

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Aggressive

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• The greatest achievement is selflessness.
  The greatest worth is self-mastery.
  The greatest quality is seeking to serve others.
  The greatest precept is continual awareness.
  The greatest medicine is the emptiness of everything.
  The greatest action is not conforming with the worlds ways.
  The greatest magic is transmuting the passions.
  The greatest generosity is non-attachment.
  The greatest goodness is a peaceful mind.
  The greatest patience is humility.
  The greatest effort is not concerned with results.
  The greatest meditation is a mind that lets go.
  The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.

  Atisa

  Letting Go, Humility, Passion

  "Perspectives on Mankind's Search for Meaning". Book by Walter Taminang, p. 63, 2008.

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• World peace comes about when each individual lives in a peaceful setting.  Likewise, when each individual lives in a peaceful setting, it means that world peace has been realized.

  Masahisa Goi

  Mean, World, Individual

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• Sometimes it just amazes me how many people desperately want to protect my personal information.
  
  Ten thousand reflections
  hide the true gem.
  
  Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

  John F. Kennedy

  Reflection, People, Want

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• Every man has a choice between love of truth and love of repose. Love of repose brings him a solid reputation and peaceful life; love of truth keeps him in suspense. A man who loves truth respects the highest law of his being.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love Life, Men, Law

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• Peaceful circulation has been interupted by barbed wire and concrete blocks. For a city or a people to be truly free, they must have the secure right, without economic, political or police pressure, to make their own choices and live their own lives.

  John F. Kennedy

  Block, Cities, People

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• I feel that we should not only maintain gentle, peaceful relations with our fellow human beings bur also that is very important to extend the same kind of attitude toward the natural environment.

  Dalai Lama

  Attitude, Important, Kind

  Dalai Lama XIV (1995). “My Tibet”, p.53, Univ of California Press

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• Under peaceful conditions a warlike man sets upon himself.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Conditions

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.271, Modern Library

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• What is life but an unpleasant interruption to a peaceful nonexistence.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  What Is Life, Interruptions

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• There is very little that our government or any government can do to plant the seeds of international understanding in the hearts and minds of people around the world. If people by the millions can reach out their hands in friendship and communicate directly warmth, personal interest and respect, it will be a real beginning in the struggle for a peaceful world.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Real, Struggle, Heart

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• I'm tired and it's taking an increasing amount out of me, more than I have to give physically. And that's why I want to move to Sicily and buy that little farm and raise a flock of goats and geese. I find it peaceful ... and it would be a nice way to end life.

  Tennessee Williams

  Nice, Moving, Tired

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The competition is not really friendly or peaceful. It leads to oppression in some ways.

  Michel Gondry

  Competition, Friendly, Way

  "Director Michel Gondry Talks IS THE MAN WHO IS TALL HAPPY?, His Interviews with Noam Chomsky, Using Hand-Drawn Illustrations, and UBIK Adaptation". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. November 20, 2013.

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• My desire is to be anonymous, isolated, quiet, peaceful, and concentrated.

  Kent Haruf

  Desire, Quiet, Isolated

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• By centering our lives on correct principles and creating a balanced focus between doing and increasing our ability to do, we become empowered to the task of creating effective useful and peaceful lives.

  Stephen Covey

  Creating, Focus, Principles

  Stephen R. Covey (2015). “The Stephen R. Covey Interactive Reader - 4 Books in 1: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, First Things First, and the Best of the Most Renowned Leadership Teacher of our Time”, p.449, Mango Media Inc.

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• The only way to build a peaceful community is to build men and women who are lovers and makers of peace.

  John Andreas Widtsoe

  Men, Community, Way

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• No one's going to go see the story of Othello going to get a peaceful divorce.

  Joss Whedon

  Divorce, Stories

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 5, 2001.

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• Death by violence, death by cold, death by starvation - they are the normal endings of the stately creatures of the wilderness. The sentimentalists who prattle about the peaceful life of nature do not realize its utter mercilessness.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Violence, Normal, Cold

  Theodore Roosevelt, H. W. Brands (2001). “African Game Trails: An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-naturalist”, p.240, Rowman & Littlefield

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• It should make people nervous when non-transparent regimes, that have announced that they've got nuclear warheads, fire missiles. This is not the way you conduct business in the world. This is not the way that peaceful nations conduct their affairs.

  George W. Bush

  Fire, People, World

  "Weather improving for N. Korea missile test, sources say" by Barbara Starr, www.cnn.com. June 23, 2006.

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• To be spiritual means to be solid, calm, and peaceful and to be able to look deeply inside and around us.

  Nhat Hanh

  Spiritual, Mean, Looks

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• If one's mind has peace, the whole world will appear peaceful.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Mind, World, Whole

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• Ultimately, our lives hinge on the ability to make right choices and decisions. By God's grace, I made the most important decision a person can ever make. I invited Jesus Christ to be Lord of my life and made a commitment to follow Him. God offers each of us the free gift of eternal life through faith in Jesus by "confessing with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believing in your heart that God raised him from the dead" (Romans 10:9). It is a wonderful and peaceful feeling to serve a God who loves me and cares about every detail of my life.

  R.A. Dickey

  Jesus, Believe, Commitment

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• I shall take my voice wherever there are those who want to hear the melody of freedom or the words that might inspire hope and courage in the face of fear. My weapons are peaceful, for it is only by peace that peace can be attained. The song of freedom must prevail.

  Paul Robeson

  Song, Voice, Inspire

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• [Liberty] is freedom of choice, a divine gift, an essential virtue in a peaceful society.

  David O. McKay

  Choices, Liberty, Essentials

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• Is there another way? Of course there is. There is a way based on simple moral principles: Everyone keeps his own money. Everyone decides what to do with his own money. No income tax. No IRS. No government grants or assistance to anyone. All charity is voluntary. It's called freedom. It's a peaceful, harmonious way of life, one that Americans once believed in.

  Jacob G. Hornberger

  Simple, Government, Income

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• I respect marriage, and I think it's beautiful that people do it. But for me, more important than anything is having a peaceful life and a peaceful home.

  Camila Alves

  Beautiful, Home, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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