Some Quotations on Peace, because on can only be truly happy or truly inspired to do something if there is peace..
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
~Martin Luther King, Jr.
Peace is always beautiful.
~ Walt Whitman
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
~Mother Theresa
Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it stands than to anything on which it is poured.
~Anonymous
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
~Isaac Asimov
War would end if the dead could return.
~Stanley Baldwin
This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.
~Leonard Bernstein
It is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners.
~Albert Camus
The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
~Edmund Burke
From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
~Denis Diderot
Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
~George Bernard Shaw
Our friends show us what we can do; our enemies teach us what we must do.
~Goethe
Nonviolence which is a quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.
~Mahatma Gandhi
Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict — alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.
~Dorothy Thompson
First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.
~Thomas a Kempis
The God of peace is never glorified by human violence.
~Thomas Merton
Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.
~Mother Jones
I love these quotes! Here is another favorite of mine. Hope you will like it too:
The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be
Marcel Pagnol