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" Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. "

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" We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace. "

Martin Luther King, Jr.

" We must fight terrorism as if there's no peace process and work to achieve peace as if there's no terror. "

" Few things can make us feel crazier than expecting something from someone who has nothing to give. "

" I gave three years of my life to take care of my dying mother who had Alzheimer's disease. Being there for her every need for three years might have looked codependent but it wasn't because it was what I wanted to do. "

" When we respect everybody around us, we are in peace with everybody around us. "

Don Miguel Ruiz

" It's fine to eat dessert when I want to eat dessert because that will give me the peace of mind I need. I'll know that if I ate chocolate cake, maybe I won't the next day. "

" Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted. "

Thomas Jefferson

" You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave - win or lose. "

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

" Few things can frustrate us more than trying to make a person someone he or she isn't; we feel crazy when we try to pretend that person is someone he or she is not. "

" Don't violate your own code of values and ethics, but don't waste energy trying to make other people violate theirs. "

" In the '60s we fought for peace, when the Vietnam war was on. We were against the cops and against the politicians, and there was a lot of waving banners and all that. And I think in a way, just as they were enjoying that machoism of war, we were enjoying the machismo of being anti-war, you know? "

" When I was a young man, I was poor. In a war with other nations, I was in eighty-seven fights. There I received my name and was made Chief of my nation. But now I am old and am for peace. "

" Some therapists have proclaimed: 'Co-dependency is anything, and everyone is co-dependent.' "

" Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace. "

" Nothing has brought me more love, joy and peace than being a good husband and good daddy. "

" Negative emotions like hatred destroy our peace of mind. "

Matthieu Ricard

" Avoid popularity if you would have peace. "

Abraham Lincoln

" America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace - a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman. "

" Try to keep your soul always in peace and quiet, always ready for whatever our Lord may wish to work in you. It is certainly a higher virtue of the soul, and a greater grace, to be able to enjoy the Lord in different times and different places than in only one. "

" Jerusalem is not just a beautiful city: the challenge is to show that Jerusalem can be shared in peace and respect. "

Federica Mogherini

" The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between. "

" Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread. "

" If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War. "

George Washington

" To be quite honest, John Lennon had questionable politics. There was a flip side. He was all peace and love, but he was a very violent character. "

" What do you do when life blindfolds you and spins you around? We think it's our fault, that we're to blame, when really we should be focused on being gentle with ourselves. "

" I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace. "

" 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. "

" The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace. "

" The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life, which is impossible to the pure egoist. "

Bertrand Russell