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“I have been true to the principles of nonviolence, developing a stronger and stronger aversion to the ideologies of both the far right and the far left and a deeper sense of rage and sorrow over the suffering they continue to produce all over the world.”

World Has Beens Suffering Left Peace Principles Produce Sorrow Stronger Deeper Rage Ideology Developing Nonviolence Aversion

Author:Joan Baez

“every frontier is doomed to produce an opposition beyond it. Nothing short of the universal can build the unfenced peace.”

Peace Produce Universal Opposition Doomed Frontiers

Book:Ionia: A Quest

Source: Ionia: A Quest

“In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!”

Love Years Peace Democracy Five Produce Achievement Hundred Clock Switzerland Brotherly Brotherly Love Cuckoos Cuckoo Clocks

Book:The third man: a film

Source: The third man: a film

“Peace of mind produces right values, right values produce right thoughts. Right thoughts produce right actions.”

Mind Action Values Peace Produce Peace Of Mind Right Action Zen Motorcycle Maintenance

Book:Zen and Now

Source: Zen and Now

“n Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.”

“Nostalgia is a necessary thing, I believe, and a way for all of us to find peace in that which we have accomplished, or even failed to accomplish. At the same time, if nostalgia precipitates actions to return to that fabled, rosy-painted time, particularly in one who believes his life to be a failure, then it is an empty thing, doomed to produce nothing but frustration and an even greater sense of failure.”

Ifs Way Believe Action I Believe Peace Greater Produce Return Empty Accomplish Nostalgia Accomplished Frustration Doomed Finding Peace Rosy Necessary Things

Book:Streams of Silver: The Legend of Drizzt

Source: Streams of Silver: The Legend of Drizzt

“A real love letter is made of insight, understanding, and compassion. Otherwise it's not a love letter. A true love letter can produce a transformation in the other person, and therefore in the world. But before it produces a transformation in the other person, it has to produce a transformation within us. Some letters may take the whole of our lifetime to write.”

Source: Your True Home: The Everyday Wisdom of Thich Nhat Hanh: 365 days of practical, powerful teaching s from the beloved Zen teacher

“Violence produces only something resembling justice, but it distances people from the possibility of living justly, without violence.”

People War Peace Justice Violence Possibility Produce Distance Ubuntu Peace Justice

Author:Leo Tolstoy