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" Peace hath higher tests of manhood, than battle ever knew. "

John Greenleaf Whittier

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" The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life. "

" What they could do with 'round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization. "

" Cross the meadow and the stream and listen as the peaceful water brings peace upon your soul. "

Maximillian Degenerez

" Every human longs for peace and love. "

" I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love. "

" I have traveled a long road from the battlefield to the peace table. "

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

" When your soul is resting, your emotions are okay, your mind is okay, and your will is at peace with God, not resisting what He's doing. "

" In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding. "

Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

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" Our most important task is to transform our consciousness so that violence is no longer an option for us in our personal lives, that understanding that a world of peace is possible only if we relate to each other as peaceful beings, one individual at a time. "

" If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name. "

Theodore Roosevelt

" Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset. "

Saint Francis de Sales

" Listen to the inner light; it will guide you. Listen to inner peace; it will feed you. Listen to inner love; it will transform you, it will divinise you, it will immortalise you. "

" When I was in the White House, I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet Union and I had 30,000 nuclear weapons that could destroy the entire earth and I had to maintain the peace. "

" No person, no place, and no thing has any power over us, for 'we' are the only thinkers in our mind. When we create peace and harmony and balance in our minds, we will find it in our lives. "

" We believe world peace is inevitable. "

" 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. "

" Obedience brings peace in decision making. If we have firmly made up our minds to follow the commandments, we will not have to redecide which path to take when temptation comes our way. "

" Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living. "

Omar N. Bradley

" If we desire a society of peace, then we cannot achieve such a society through violence. If we desire a society without discrimination, then we must not discriminate against anyone in the process of building this society. If we desire a society that is democratic, then democracy must become a means as well as an end. "

" 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. "

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

" We believe in peace and peaceful development, not only for ourselves but for people all over the world. "

Lal Bahadur Shastri

" 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. "

" I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete. "

" 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. "

" Unlike a lot of people, I don't feel powerless. I know I can do something. But anyone can do something, it's not about being special. It's about deciding to do it - to dive into work for peace and justice and care for everybody on the planet. "

" Denuclearization and the lasting peace on the Korean peninsula cannot be abandoned or delayed, as they are the historical assignment. "

" It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it. "

Martin Luther King, Jr.

" Work, look for peace and calm in work: you will find it nowhere else. "

Dmitri Mendeleev

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