Peace Quote by Thomas Merton

To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too…

— Thomas Merton

“Give yourself some grace, because being stripped down alone and having to navigate specific systems of power is a particular kind of violence that…

— Malebo Sephodi

“When you surrender, the problem ceases to exist. Try to solve it,or conquer it, and you only set up more resistance. I am very…

— Henry Miller

“Out of fear, out of the desire for approval, out of misguided notions of duty, people surrender themselves--their convictions and their aspirations--every day. There…

— Nathaniel Branden

“Many times in life, we are held back from achieving our goals because we do not commit ourselves wholeheartedly. With an escape route in…

— idowu koyenikan

“And "sharing the work of survival," therefore, means resisting every temptation towards independence, towards personal liberty, towards "doing your own thing". This takes s…

— Walter Wangerin Jr

Fight against yourself, recover yourself to decency, to modesty, to freedom. And, in the first place, condemn your actions; but when you have condemned…

— Epictetus

“To attempt, to brave, to persist, and persevere, to be faithful to one's self, to wrestle with destiny, to astound the catastrophe by the…

— Victor Hugo

“To lay aside what you have in your head (selfish desires and ambitions); to freely bestow what you have in your hand; and never…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

“You will need all of those skills to move forward, affirming this earth, our ethical obligations to live among those who are invariably different…

— Judith Butler

This must be the mission of every man of goodwill: to insist, unflaggingly, at risk of becoming a repetitive bore, but to insist on…

— Leonard Bernstein

“To search for a solutions, knowing that the problem is insoluble; to serve, while smiling at what one serves; to subject oneself to an…

— Henry de Montherlant