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" 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. "

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" To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life - bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace. "

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" Another essential to a universal and durable peace is social justice. "

" The devil is a peace stealer, and he works hard to set us up to get upset. But we can learn how to change our approach so we don't live upset all of the time. And Jesus gives us the best example to follow. "

" Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race. "

" Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel peace prize. "

" Jesus said, 'Greater things of these you shall do...' Become a peace builder, a bridge builder, not a destroyer, and the way you do that is through friendships and relationships, and through authentic character. "

" He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war. "

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" Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind. "

" Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace. "

" Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact. "

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" I get those fleeting, beautiful moments of inner peace and stillness - and then the other 23 hours and 45 minutes of the day, I'm a human trying to make it through in this world. "

" If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal. "

" Indeed, we're strongest when the face of America isn't only a soldier carrying a gun but also a diplomat negotiating peace, a Peace Corps volunteer bringing clean water to a village, or a relief worker stepping off a cargo plane as floodwaters rise. "

" Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal. "

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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" Peace can be promoted by the limitation of arms and by the creation of the instrumentality for peaceful settlement of controversies. But it will become a reality only through self-restraint and active effort in friendliness and helpfulness. "

" Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change. "

" The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts. "

" If the attainment of peace is the ultimate objective of all statesmen, it is, at the same time, something very ordinary, closely tied to the daily life of each individual. "

" Our stories come from our lives and from the playwright's pen, the mind of the actor, the roles we create, the artistry of life itself and the quest for peace. "

" Tolerance, like any aspect of peace, is forever a work in progress, never completed, and, if we're as intelligent as we like to think we are, never abandoned. "

" Only a fighting nation can make itself responsible for world peace, and such a nation must organize its material resources and manpower with the highest possible degree of efficiency. "

" It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly. "

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" You cannot find peace by avoiding life. "

" We have a long way to go before we are able to hear the voices of everyone on earth, but I believe that providing voices and building bridges is essential for the World Peace we all wish for. "

" To solve the problem of organizing world peace we must establish world law and order. "

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

" He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees. "

" Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something. "

" All movements go too far. "

" 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. "