Peacefulness Quotes
23 quotes by 22 authors
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A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one.
— Rita Mae Brown
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The first stage of this tranquility consists in silencing the lips when the heart is excited. The second, in silencing the mind when the soul…
— John Climacus
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Younger people tend to associate happiness more with excitement and the future, while older people tend to associate happiness with peacefulness in the present.
— Chip Conley
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We can all learn that we can take full responsibility for what thoughts we are thinking and what emotional circuitry we are feeling. Knowing this…
— Jill Bolte Taylor
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Whether it's a pebble in a riverbed or a soaring mountain peak, I see everything in the world as the handiwork of the Lord. When…
— Thomas Kinkade
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When the soul is solidly rooted in... peacefulness, when it is freed of the bonds of every carnal urge, when the unshaking thrust of the…
— John Cassian
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If you want to create a beautiful world, people in positions of responsibility and power should know a certain sense of joyfulness and peacefulness.
— Jaggi Vasudev
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The way of peace is the way of truth. Truthfulness is even more important than peacefulness.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Common sense told us that to preserve the peace, we'd have to become strong again after years of weakness and confusion. So, we rebuilt our…
— Ronald Reagan
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Just as white light consists of colored rays, so reverence for life contains all the components of ethics: love, kindliness, sympathy, empathy, peacefulness and power…
— Albert Schweitzer
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True peacefulness comes from abandoning the illustion that satisfying desires brings pleasure.
— Joan Z. Borysenko
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Sometimes I have loved the peacefulness of an ordinary Sunday. It is like standing in a newly planted garden after a warm rain. You can…
— Marilynne Robinson
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I just remember their kindness and goodness to me, and their peacefulness and their utter simplicity. They inspired real reverence, and I think, in a…
— Thomas Merton
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I didn’t want any flowers, I only wanted To lie with my hands turned up and be utterly empty. How free it is, you have…
— Sylvia Plath
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Holiness appeared to me to be of a sweet, pleasant, charming, serene, calm nature; which brought an inexpressible purity, brightness, peacefulness and ravishment to the…
— Jonathan Edwards
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You might be tempted to avoid the messiness of daily living for the tranquility of stillness and peacefulness. This of course would be an attachment…
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
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I am learning peacefulness, lying by myself quietly, as the light lies on these white walls, this bed, these hands. I am nobody; I have…
— Sylvia Plath
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Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It's peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.
— Barbara Kingsolver
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Competition is healthy. Competition is life. Yet most actors refuse to acknowledge this. They don't want to compete. They want to get along. And they…
— Michael Shurtleff
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I find music distracting - it takes me out of my head. What I love so much about skiing is the peacefulness.
— Julia Mancuso
Who Wrote These Peacefulness Quotes
22 authors contributed a total of 23 Peacefulness Quotes as follows: