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Peace Quotes by Jack Kornfield
- Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
- We can struggle with what is. We can judge and blame others or ourselves. Or we can accept what cannot be changed. Peace comes from…
- Acceptance does not mean inaction. We may need to respond, strongly at times...From a peaceful center we can respond instead of react. Unconscious reactions create…
- There is no higher happiness than peace.
- The way I treat my body is not disconnected from the way I treat my family or the commitment I have to peace on our…
- Everything has a beginning and an ending. Make peace with that and all will be well...In life we cannot avoid change, we cannot avoid loss.…
- Only in the reality of the present can we love, can we awaken, can we find peace and understanding and connection with ourselves and the…
- You hold in your hand an invitation: to remember the transforming power of forgiveness and loving kindness. To remember that no matter where you are…
- Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control. We can love and care for others but we cannot possess our children, lovers, family, or…
- In our charade with ourselves we pretend that our war is not really war. We have changed the name of the War Department to the…
- Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.
- When we let go of our battles and open our heart to things as they are, then we come to rest in the present moment.…
- What would we have to hold in compassion to be at peace right now? What would we have to let go of to be at…
More Peace Quotes
- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. — Hannah Arendt
- The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. — Hannah Arendt
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave… — Aristotle
- We make war that we may live in peace. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle
- A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more… — Frank Abagnale