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Peace Quotes by Nhat Hanh
- Working for peace in the future is to work for peace in the present moment.
- No single tradition monopolizes the truth. We must glean the best values of all traditions and work together to remove the tensions between traditions in…
- Find joy and peace in this very moment.
- The essence of nonviolence is love. Out of love and the willingness to act selflessly, strategies, tactics, and techniques for a nonviolent struggle arise naturally.…
- In the Light of interbeing, peace and happiness in your daily life means peace and happiness in the world.
- Scientists tell us that we have enough technology to save our planet. . . . Yet we don't take advantage of this new technology. .…
- With mindfulness - the practice of peace - we can begin by working to transform the wars in ourselves. Conscious breathing helps us do this.
- If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace.
- In Buddhism, we speak of touching Nirvana with our own body, In Christianity, you can also touch the Kingdom of God with your body, right…
- Listening is a very deep practice. You have to empty yourself. You have to leave space in order to listen especially to people we think…
- Reconciliation is a deep practice that we can do with our listening and our mindful speech. To reconcile means to bring peace and happiness to…
- To reconcile conflicting parties, we must have the ability to understand the suffering of both sides. If we take sides, it is impossible to do…
- There are two ways to wash the dishes. One way is to wash them to get them clean. The other way is to wash them…
- Real peace is not in power, money, or weapons, but in deep inner peace.
- The Noble Eight-Fold Path is the path of living in awareness. Mindfulness is the foundation. By practicing mindfulness, you can develop concentration, which enables you…
- If we are not peaceful, if we are not feeling well in our skin, we cannot demonstrate real peace, and we cannot raise our children…
- Our smile affirms our awareness and determination to live in peace and joy.
- Dealing with our overweight - or with any of our life's difficulties, for that matter - is not a battle to be fought. Instead, we…
- We may think of peace as the absence of war, that if the great powers would reduce their weapons arsenals, we could have peace. But…
- If you establish serenity and happiness inside yourself, you provide the world with a solid base of peace. If you do not give yourself peace,…
- When you produce peace and happiness in yourself, you begin to realize peace for the whole world. With the smile that you produce in yourself,…
- We do not have to die to enter the kingdom of Heaven, In fact we have to be fully alive. When we are truly alive…
- Our appointment with life is in the present moment. If we do not have peace and joy right now, when will we have peace and…
- The way we live our daily lives is what most effects the situation of the world. If we can change our daily lives, then we…
- Meditation is not to avoid society; it is to look deep to have the kind of insight you need to take action. To think that…
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