During difficult times, I often turn to quotes to lift and inspire me. These peace quotes are particularly appropriate during the world-wide pandemic. Many regions of the world are suffering not only from the ravages of Covid, but from internal strife. As we reflect on peace, may we step into our world in a loving, kinder way, that it may bring about a turning point — a turn away from war and conflict and toward peace. DJS
There is no time left for anything but to make peacework a dimension of our every waking activity.
— Elise Boulding
Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.
— Buddha
Peace is the only battle worth waging.
— Albert Camus
What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.
Mother Teresa
Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
— Albert Einstein
But peace does not rest in the charters and covenants alone. It lies in the hearts and minds of all people. So let us not rest all our hopes on parchment and on paper, let us strive to build peace, a desire for peace, a willingness to work for peace in the hearts and minds of all of our people. I believe that we can. I believe the problems of human destiny are not beyond the reach of human beings.
— John F. Kennedy
One day we must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but that it is a means by which we arrive at that goal. We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
“If there is to be peace in the world…”
If there is to be peace in the world,
There must be peace in the nations.
If there is to be peace in the nations,
There must be peace in the cities.
If there is to be peace in the cities,
There must be peace between neighbors.
If there is to be peace between neighbors,
There must be peace in the home.
If there is to be peace in the home,
There must be peace in the heart.
— Lao Tzu
If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.
— John Lennon
May you be filled with loving kindness.
May you be well.
May you be peaceful and at ease.
May you be happy.
Ancient – Tibetan Buddhist – Meditation
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.
— Matthew, V:9
Peace may sound simple – one beautiful word – but it requires everything we have, every quality, every strength, every dream, every high ideal.
— Yehudi Menuhin
“It isn’t enough to talk about peace.”
It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
I was once asked why I don’t participate in anti-war demonstrations. I said that I will never do that, but as soon as you have a pro-peace rally, I’ll be there.
— Mother Theresa
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
— Mother Theresa
We, Veteran’s for Peace, view peace as a positively active and creative process which requires courage, commitment, endurance, vigilance, and integrity. Peace is a struggle toward unity, and it is characterized by an absence of violence in all its forms, including discrimination based on gender, age, race, religion, social and economic status, ethnicity, and sexual orientation. Those who labor for peace are called peacemakers because they tirelessly pursue nonviolent solutions, work for economic and social justice, celebrate diversity, and strive to build relationships between adversaries through education, conflict mediation, and humanitarian relief. We recognize that peace is both a means and end simultaneously, and that it is never finally or fully achieved. This is because change and growth require some degree of tension or conflict. Historically, such conflict has provided the impetus for military solutions. Thus we, Veteran’s for Peace, strongly believe that the greatest obstacle to peace is militarism with its reliance on violence and war. We further believe that peacekeeping action should only be accomplished by a legitimate international body.
— Committee to Define Peace, Veterans for Peace
Peace is always beautiful.
— Walt Whitman
You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
― Virginia Woolf
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I’ll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about.
Rumi
Power of Love over the Love of Power
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Jimi Hendrix
God can’t give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing.
C.S. Lewis
Deep peace I breathe into you, O weariness, here:
O ache, here!
Deep peace, a soft white dove to You;
Deep peace, a quiet rain to you;
Deep peace, an ebbing wave to you!
Deep peace, red wind of the east from you;
Deep peace, grey wind of the west to You;
Deep peace, dark wind of the north from you;
Deep peace, blue wind of the south to you!
Deep peace, pure red of the flame to you;
Deep peace, pure white of the moon to you;
Deep peace, pure green of the grass to you;
Deep peace, pure brown of the earth to you;
Deep peace, pure grey of the dew to you,
Deep peace, pure blue of the sky to you!
Deep peace of the running wave to you,
Deep peace of the flowing air to you,
Deep peace of the quiet earth to you,
Deep peace of the sleeping stones to you!
Deep peace of the Yellow Shepherd to you,
Deep peace of the Wandering Shepherdess to you,
Deep peace of the Flock of Stars to you,
Deep peace from the Son of Peace to you,
Deep peace from the heart of Mary to you,
And from Briget of the Mantle
Deep peace, deep peace!
And with the kindness too of the Haughty Father
Peace!
In the name of the Three who are One,
Peace!
And by the will of the King of the Elements,
Peace! Peace!
The Dominion of Dreams : Under a Dark Star – Fiona Macleod – 1895
The Lord bless thee,
and keep thee: The Lord
make his face shine upon
thee, and be gracious upon
thee: The Lord lift up his
countenance upon thee
and give thee peace.
Numbers 6:24-26
