Peaceful Quotes - Page 37

• We have two choices: One is to continue to see a poor, ill, crying Africa, carrying guns, that depends on other people forever, or to promote an Africa which is confident, peaceful, independent, but cognizant of its huge problems and great values at the same time.

  Zeresenay Alemseged

  Independent, Gun, Two

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• You know, when a president is about to leave office, most of the time most people are dying for him to go on and get out of there. But there are a few little rituals that have to be observed. One of them is that the president must host the incoming president in the White House, smile as if they love each other and give the American people the idea that democracy is peaceful and honourable and there will be a good transfer of power

  Nancy Gibbs

  White, Ideas, Office

  Nancy Gibbs, Michael Duffy (2012). “The Presidents Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity”, p.502, Simon and Schuster

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• To live in a peaceful home is to experience paradise on earth

  Shri Radhe Maa

  Home, Paradise On Earth, Peaceful Home

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• To dream the impossible dream, to fight the unbeatable foe, to bear with unbearable sorrow, to run where the brave dare not go, to right the unrightable wrong, to love pure and chaste from afar, to try when your arms are too weary, to reach the unreachable star. This is my quest, to follow that star, no matter how hopeless, no matter how far. To fight for the right, without question or pause, to be willing to march into hell for a heavenly cause. And I know if I’ll only be true to this glorious quest that my heart will be peaceful and calm when I’m laid to my rest.

  Joe Darion

  Running, Dream, Stars

  "The Impossible Dream (The Quest)" (song) (1965)

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• I think now Somalia is turning a corner and we can, with the new political development, build on momentum - really build a peaceful future.

  Jan Egeland

  Thinking, Political, Momentum

  IRIN Interview, www.irinnews.org. December 9, 2004.

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• To the extent that these advanced weapons or their components are treated as articles of commerce, perhaps for peaceful uses as in the Plowshare program, their cost would be well within the resources available to many large private organizations.

  Herman Kahn

  Organization, Use, Weapons

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• I really think, if anything, there is more evidence to show that the violent games reduce aggression and violence. There have actually been some studies about that, that it's cathartic. If you go to QuakeCon and you walk by and you see the people there [and compare that to] a random cross section of a college campus, you're probably going to find a more peaceful crowd of people at the gaming convention. I think it’s at worst neutral and potentially positive.

  John Carmack

  College, Thinking, Games

  "Violent Games Reduce Aggression, Says Id Boss". IndustryGamers Interview, www.digitalspy.com. July 31, 2011.

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• This is the deepest experiment of life. And whatever has been discovered in regard to life, this is the most significant finding of all: don't ask for happiness if you want to be happy, don't ask for peace if you want to be peaceful. Whatever you ask for will be lost. Whatever you do not ask for you will get. You have asked many times and seen that you do not receive it. Now try not asking and see. There is no need to believe me; there is a need to experiment.

  Rajneesh

  Happiness, Believe, Trying

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• We shall use only peaceful means and we shall not permit any other kind of method.

  Zhou Enlai

  Mean, Use, Kind

  "How the Sino-Russian BoundaryConflict Was Finally Settled:From Nerchinsk 1689 to Vladivostok 2005 via Zhenbao Island 1969" by Neville Maxwell,

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• The easiest way I have found to humble myself back into a state of peaceful grace is through the act of gratitude.

  Jill Bolte Taylor

  Gratitude, Humble, Grace

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• The unique function of the nurse is to assist the individual, sick or well, in the performance of those activities contributing to health or its recovery (or to peaceful death) that he would perform unaided if he had the necessary strength, will or knowledge. And to do this in such a way as to help him gain independence as rapidly as possible.

  Virginia Henderson

  Recovery, Unique, Nurse

  Virginia Henderson (1991). “The Nature of Nursing: A Definition and Its Implications for Practice, Research, and Education : Reflections After 25 Years”, ABRAMS

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• What we're thinking about is a peaceful planet. We're not thinking about anything else. We're not thinking about any kind of power. We're not thinking about any kind of struggles. We're not thinking about revolution or war or any of that. That's not what we want. Nobody wants to get hurt. Nobody wants to hurt anybody. We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life. A simple life, a good life. And think about moving the whole human race ahead a step, or a few steps.

  Jerry Garcia

  Life, Peace, Hurt

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• Possibly the best suggestion in condensed form, as to how to live, was given by my old Headmaster, Dr. Haig Brown, in 1904, when he wrote his Recipe for Old Age. A diet moderate and spare, Freedom from base financial care, Abundant work and little leisure, A love of duty more than pleasure, An even and contented mind In charity with all mankind, Some thoughts too sacred for display In the broad light of common day, A peaceful home, a loving wife, Children, who are a crown of life; These lengthen out the years of man Beyond the Psalmist's narrow span.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Life, Peace, Children

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• Commitment . . . is a binding, but happy, response to duty. It is at once peaceful yet compelling, for it obligates one to action. It is essential to the good life. It is doing what everyone can do.

  James M. Paramore

  Life, Peace, Commitment

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• 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.

  Thomas Gray

  Peace, Winning, Night

  Thomas Gray, William Mason (1827). “The works of Thomas Gray, with memoirs of his life and writings, by W. Mason”, p.408

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• Philips, whose touch harmonious could remove The pangs of guilty power and hapless love! Rest here, distress'd by poverty no more; Here find that calm thou gav'st so oft before; Sleep undisturb'd within this peaceful shrine, Till angels wake thee with a note like thine!

  Samuel Johnson

  Love, Peace, Sleep

  Samuel Johnson (1811). “The Poetical Works of Samuel Johnson: Collated with the Best Editions”, p.88

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• I love her with a love as still As a broad river's peaceful might, Which by high tower and lowly mill, Goes wandering at its own will, And yet does ever flow aright.

  James Russell Lowell

  Love, Peace, Rivers

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.7

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• We need a more peaceful world, growing out of more peaceful families and neighborhoods and communities. To secure and cultivate such peace, "we must love others, even our enemies as well as our friends"

  Howard W. Hunter

  Love, Peace, Community

  Howard W. Hunter (1994). “That We Might Have Joy”, Shadow Mountain

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• If your home environment is good and peaceful and easy, your life is better and easier.

  Lori Greiner

  Inspiring, Home, Life Is

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• In a world of danger and trial, peace is our deepest aspiration, and when peace comes we will gladly convert not our swords into plowshares, but our bombs into peaceful reactors, and our planes into space vessels. "Pursue peace," the Bible tells us, and we shall pursue it with every effort and every energy that we possess. But it is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, War, Space

  Speech at Civic Auditorium, Seattle, Washington, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. September 06, 1960.

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• A mother's love is like an island, In life's ocean vast and wide, A peaceful, quiet shelter, From the restless, rising tide.

  Helen Steiner Rice

  Family, Mother, Ocean

  Helen Steiner Rice (2003). “Especially for Mothers”, Barbour Publishing

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• Atmosphere is a silent music. It has its effect upon the listener, exciting or peaceful, whatever it may be.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Atmosphere, May, Silent

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1960). “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: The Gathas”, p.112, Library of Alexandria

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• It is the peaceful one who is observant. It is peace that gives him the power to observe keenly. It is the peaceful one, therefore, who can conceive, for peace helps him to conceive. It is the peaceful who can contemplate; one who has no peace cannot contemplate properly. Therefore, all things pertaining to spiritual progress in life depend upon peace.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Spiritual, Giving, Progress

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1973). “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: The Way of Illumination”, p.307, Library of Alexandria

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• I remember listening to the radio as a kid and finding that the songs always made me feel more peaceful. Funny, but the more hurtin' the music was, the better it made me feel. I think of that now when I write my songs. I may not be feelin' the blues myself, but I'm writing them for other people who have a hard life.

  Chris Isaak

  Song, Writing, Kids

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• I go into the locker room and find a corner and just sit there. I try to achieve a peaceful state of nothingness that will carry over onto the golf course. If I can get that feeling of quiet and obliviousness within myself, I feel I can't lose.

  Jane Blalock

  Golf, Feelings, Trying

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