Courage Quote by Lao Tsu

When there is no desire, all things are at peace

— Anonymous

How peaceful life would be without love. How safe, how tranquil and how dull.

— Sean Connery

If it weren't for desire, the formless would not have come into form and engage creatively.

— Tara Brach

Are not our desires inseparably intertwined with the continuation of life? Even the idea of eliminating desire is fruitless. The desire to eliminate all…

— Sadhu Sundar Singh

Without desire there is stillness, and the world settles by itself.

— Laozi

“Surely your longings and feelings arise from the God who created you. They were created in order to be filled, not crushed. Surely we…

— Sundar Singh

It is no easy task to walk this earth and find peace. Inside of us, it would seem, something is at odds with the…

— Ronald Rolheiser

Without the power of intelligence there is no capacity for spiritual knowledge; and without spiritual knowledge we cannot have the faith from which springs…

— Maximus the Confessor

“Peace lies in the absence of the desire and need for peace.”

— Sov8840

There is no life without work, anxieties or tensions. Peace is not found in avoiding these but in understanding them and controlling their force.

— Wendy Beckett

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

— Henry Miller

Without peace, there is nothing truly human. Peace is harmony. And harmony is the highest ideal of life.

— Klas Pontus Arnoldson