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" Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives. "

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" We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace. "

" A conqueror is always a lover of peace. "

" While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart. "

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" There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers. "

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" Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms. "

" The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed. "

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" 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. "

" First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others. "

" The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it - oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible. "

" Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children. "

" We believe world peace is inevitable. "

" Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness. "

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

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

" All my life, I have maintained that the people of the world can learn to live together in peace if they are not brought up in prejudice. "

" I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions. "

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" Our object should be peace within, and peace without. We want to live peacefully and maintain cordial friendly relations with our immediate neighbours and with the world at large. "

" A people free to choose will always choose peace. "

" We all need to work together, because there are no jobs on a dead planet; there is no equity without rights to decent work and social protection, no social justice without a shift in governance and ambition, and, ultimately, no peace for the peoples of the world without the guarantees of sustainability. "

" If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies. "

" Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel. We are not trying to keep out of trouble; we are trying to preserve the foundations on which peace may be rebuilt. "

" The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war. "

" Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ. "

" Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for they love peace and quiet and good tilled earth: a well-ordered and well-farmed countryside was their favourite haunt. "

" If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church, it will be through ignorance and not through malice. This may be taken as certain, and also that, through God's goodness, I am, and shall always be, as I always have been, subject to her. "

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" Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone with Him who we know loves us. The important thing is not to think much but to love much and so do that which best stirs you to love. Love is not great delight but desire to please God in everything. "

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" God of peace, bring your peace to our violent world: peace in the hearts of all men and women and peace among the nations of the Earth. "

" You have to understand that people have to pay a price for peace. If you dare to struggle, you dare to win. "

" I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war. "