Thoughts of Peace

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Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
Buddha

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
Mohandas Gandhi 

Peace begins with a smile.
Mother Teresa 

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
Martin Luther King, Jr. 

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
C. S. Lewis 

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.
Dalai Lama 

Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.
Ronald Reagan 

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.
John F. Kennedy 

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
Jimi Hendrix 

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson 

All we are saying is give peace a chance.
John Lennon

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 

A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.
Wayne Dyer

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
Helen Keller 

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
Nelson Mandela 

One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
Lao Tzu 

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.
George Washington 

There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.
Black Elk 

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
Francis of Assisi 

Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he has created through his past ways of life, with all those material interests and earthly ambitions.
Sai Baba 

We receive His peace when we ask Him for it. We keep His peace by extending it to others. Those are the keys and there are no others.
Marianne Williamson 

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