P Quotes
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“Peace is not a dream; it is hard work, and there is nothing naive, glamorous or simplistic about it.”
“Peace is not a dream; peace is an option! You either choose peace and prove that you are clever and angelic, or choose war proving that you are stupid and devilish!”
“Peace is not a gift we receive, it is a discipline we practice, especially when it's hardest.”
“Peace is not a luxury. It's not an option. It is fundamental to the existence and well-being of a human being to have peace in their life.”
“Peace is not a matter of learning harmony, it's about unlearning division.”
Source: Divane Dynamite: Only truth in the cosmos is love
“Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.”
“Peace is not a product of an intellectual exercise. It is an inner blossoming that occurs with meditation.”
“Peace is not a question of diplomacy, it is a question of nonsectarianism.”
Source: Heart Force One: Need No Gun to Defend Society
“Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.”
“Peace is not a result inside us from everything around us. Peace is not submissive nor passive. On the contrary, peace is an overwhelming force which comes from within us, disrespectful of everything around us, a firm coalition of spirit and soul standing against all the unrest that abounds.”
“Peace is not a statement, peace is existence.”
Source: Mücadele Muhabbet: Gospel of An Unarmed Soldier
“Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.”
“Peace is not achievable as a direct object of purposeful behaviour.”
“Peace is not achieved by controlling nations, but mastering our thoughts.”
“Peace is not always easy to grasp or keep close. In the process of attaining and protecting it, you may find yourself tired, weary, and uncertain on how to keep your peace safe. While being uncertain is normal, continue to commit yourself to peacefulness. You are worthy of every drop of sweetness and ease that you encounter. Being tested is a part of the journey. Giving up, and letting go, is not.”
“Peace is not an easy prospect--it requires greater bravery than does conflict.”
Source: Green Illusions
“Peace is not automatic. It is a gift of the grace of God. It comes when hearts are exposed to the love of Christ. But this always costs something. For the love of Christ was demonstrated through suffering and those who experience that love can never put it into practice without some cost.”
Source: I Love Idi Amin: The Story of Triumph Under Fire in the Midst of Suffering and Persecution in Uganda
“peace is not creted by anyone it is created by our own for us”
Source: stupid thoughts
“Peace is not determined by the signage of treaties or the wishes of leaders. Peace is not a discrete event; rather it is a renewable proposition, filled with affirmations designed to mitigate against the collective distrust of two people who knew little beyond hatred, suspicion, blame and counter blame, intellectual gamesmanship, fear, paranoia, historical necessity, retribution, and a host of other deeply engrained emotional projections that are constantly lurking beneath the surface.”
Source: Absolution: A Palestinian Israeli Love Story
“Peace is not elusive. It’s just that we want to create it, which doesn’t really make it elusive. It makes it impossible. Yet, the peace that I have is in remembering that with God, nothing is impossible.”
“Peace is not everything, but without peace, everything is nothing.”
“Peace is not external. Peace is an inner thing. It comes from our own inner environment.”
“Peace is not found by seeking it but in simply letting it be.”
“Peace is not found by silencing the noise, but by remembering you don’t have to answer every echo.”
“Peace is not found in silence, but in the hearts that choose kindness when anger feels easier”
“Peace is not happenstance. It is a living fire that must be fed constantly. It must be tended to with vigilance, else it dies out.”
Source: The Sweet Far Thing
“Peace is not just a colored ribbon. It's more than a wristband or a t-shirt. It's not just a donation or a 5 K race. It's not just a folk song, or a white dove. And peace is certainly more than a celebrity endorsement. Peace is a fulltime job. It's protecting civilians, overseeing elections, and disarming ex-combatants. The UN has over 100,000 Peacekeepers on the ground, in places others can't or won't go, doing things others can't or won't do. Peace, like war, must be waged.”
“Peace is not just a desired state of being for people, but also enables the flourishing of nature as well as human-created landscapes.”
Source: Tenryu-ji: Life and Spirit of a Kyoto Garden
“Peace is not just safety or lack of war, violence, conflict and contention. Peace comes from knowing that the Savior knows who we are, knows that we have faith in Him, love Him, and keep His commandments, even and especially amid life's devastating trials and tragedies.”
“Peace is not just the absence of mass destruction, but a positive internal and external condition in which people are free so that they can grow to their full potential.”
Source: Nonviolence Speaks to Power
“Peace is not just the absence of violence,peace is when the flowers bloom.”
“Peace is not just the absence of war and conflict; it goes well beyond that. Peace must be fostered within the individual, within the family and within society. Simply transferring the world's nuclear weapons to a museum will not in itself bring about world peace. The nuclear weapons of the mind must first be eliminated.”
Source: Living In Harmony
“Peace is not just the absence of war, it is the active presence of a capacity for love and compassion, and reciprocity. It is an awareness that our lives are not to be lived simply for ourselves through expressing our individuality, but we confirm the purpose of our lives through the work of expressing our shared sense of community in a purposeful and practical way; to sustain our own lives we sustain the lives of others - in family, in a community of neighborhoods called a city, and in a community of nations called the world.”
“Peace is not just the absence of war. Like a cathedral, peace must be constructed patiently and with unshakable faith.”
“Peace is not just the absence of war. True peace depends upon creating the opportunity that makes life worth living. And to do that, we must confront the common enemies of human beings: nuclear weapons and poverty; ignorance and disease.”
“Peace is not just the mere absence of violence or disturbance. It's when there is a possibility of conflict, but you deliberately avoid violence and adopt methods to solve the problem through peaceful means. That is real peace.”
“Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.”
“Peace is not made with friends. Peace is made with enemies.”
“Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.”
Source: A Time to Break Silence: The Essential Works of Martin Luther King, Jr., for Students
“Peace is not merely a vacuum left by the ending of wars. It is the creation of two eternal principles, justice and freedom.”
“Peace is not merely an absence of war. It is also a state of mind.”
“Peace is not merely the absence of visible conflict.”
“Peace is not merely the absence of visible conflict. Only a just peace based on the inherent rights and dignity of every individual can truly be lasting.”
“Peace is not merely the absence of war but the presence of justice, of law, of order —in short, of government.”
“Peace is not merely the absence of war. Nor can it be reduced solely to the maintenance of a balance of power between enemies. Nor is it brought about by dictatorship. Instead, it is rightly and appropriately called "an enterprise of justice" (Is. 32:7). Peace results from that order structured into human society by its divine founder, and actualized by men as they thirst after ever greater justice.”
“Peace is not merely the absence of warfare, any more than true health is simply the absence of disease. Nor is peace simply a quiet state of equilibrium-impossible to achieve in an evolving system. Though refraining from harm is an essential first step, lasting peace is created by actively redressing harm done. Peace is a creative process of actively joining I and thou into a co-creative we. It requires authentic communication, empathic listening, and wildly creative solutions.”
“Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.”
Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
“Peace is not only the absence of chaos & conflict; it's the GENIUS harmony that unites humanity. Embrace the brilliance of peace today & ever after.”
“Peace is not only the absence of conflict but the presence of Love.”
“Peace is not only the purpose of life; it is also the pathway of life”