Peace Quotes | Inspirational Sayings for Peaceful Living

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Do not let the behaviour of others destroy your inner peace.

Peace begins When expectation ends.
– Sri Chinmoy

Your life is yours and my life is mine. We own it and we can do whatever we want with it, but lets live in peace and respect differences to make this world a better place.

You can never find rest until you learn to finally let go of the hatred and hurt that lives in you heart.

Forgive others, not because they deserve forgiveness, but because you deserve peace.
– Jonathan Lockwood

Get lost in nature and you will find yourself.

No God no peace,
Know God, know peace.

Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
– George Augustus Moore

Choiceless-ness is the secret of eternal peace.
– Anandmurti Gurumaa

Peace begins with a smile.
– Mother Teresa

Be selective in your battles, sometimes peace is better than being right.

If there is total peace in the world you wouldn’t know war, then you also won’t know what’s peace, if you don’t know what’s peace, then the peace is useless so no peace without war.

Tranquility is a choice. So is anxiety. The entire world around us may be in turmoil. But if we want to be peaceful within, we can.
– RVM

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once.
– Robert A. Heinlein

How do you find peace? When you take a fruit like orange do you eat it at once or you peal off the skin before you eat? The answer is simple, you peal the skin off before you eat. Therefore you can find that peace which is within you only when you take away the bitter part of your life. If you do not live in peace now you may regret it one day in the future.

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Those who do not understand pain can never understand true peace.

When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.

Every day brings a choice: to practice stress or to practice peace.

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
– Mother Teresa

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
– Albert Einstein

Inner peace can be seen as the ultimate benefit of practicing patience.
– Allan Lokos

Peace is costly but it is worth the expense.
– African Proverb

It is my conviction that there is no way to peace – peace is the way.
– Thich Nhat Hanh

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
– Virginia Woolf

You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
– George Bernard Shaw

If parents allow their children to express themselves in all matters, I believe there would be perfect peace.

Free your mind for your soul to have peace.
– Sipho P Nkosi

Peace is not just mere absence of violence.

You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
– Malcolm X

I destroyed my body for a peace of mind I never got

For peace of mind, resign as general manager of the universe.

Simple life and peaceful mind are very close friends!
– Mehmet Murat ildan

In this world we fight for peace, to get that peace we must stop fighting but if we stop fighting all hell will break loose.

Peace, like charity, begins at home.
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

Unless you can find some sort of loyalty, you cannot find unity and peace in your active living.
– Josiah Royce

The greatest injustice in the world is to bring a child into the world, and not be able to offer it peace.
– Nafisa Joseph

Remain calm in every situation because peace equals power.
– Joyce Meyer

Life has taught me that to be happy one must attain peace. For without peace, there can be no happiness.
– RVM

Many people think excitement is happiness…. But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.
– Thich Nhat Hanh

You have to do something in your life that is honorable and not cowardly if you are to live in peace with yourself, and for the firefighter it is fire.
– Larry Brown

Peace fell upon her spirit. Strong comfort and assurance bathed her whole being. Life was so solid and splendid, and so good.
– Thomas Wolfe

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.
– John Lennon

When justice walks through the door peace follows closely behind.

There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness and death.
– Fran Lebowitz

Imagine all of us living in peace, it’s too beautiful to just be a dream.
– John Lennon

Word is a powerful weapon ..peaceful or mass destructive.
– Msalem

Yes, upon seeing some people during my visits to the Himalayas. They seem to have an inner peace and tranquility that we do not.
– Rajinikanth

Lead me from death to life, from falsehood to truth; Lead me from despair to hope, from fear to trust; Lead me from hate to love, from war to peace; Let peace fill our heart, our world, our universe.
– Dilip Kumar

Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
– William Hazlitt

Peace is joy at rest, and joy is peace on its feet.
– Anne Lamott

Break records not bones.

Peace is not just the absence of conflict but also a free mind.

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.
– Dalai Lama XIV

If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another.
– Dalai Lama

We are told that if you are not occupied with the mind all the time, then you will invite the devil. It is such a heightened misconception that people are going crazy just because of this. An empty mind is not the devil’s home but an empty mind is the home of the Buddha.
– Anandmurti Gurumaa

If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile and blossom like a flower, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.
– Thich Nhat Hanh

Looking for peace is like looking for a turtle with a mustache: You won’t be able to find it. But when your heart is ready, peace will come looking for you.
– Ajahn Chah

When forces of oppression come to maintain themselves in power against established law, peace is considered already broken.
– Che Guevara

Having a calm and compassionate mind enables us to use our natural intelligence more effectively.
– Dalai Lama

Only justice can bring peace.

Peace, what do you mean by peace is it just a word? Peace as people think is only in a quiet room with silence but in fact you can be in war and still have peace because peace is not around you but within you.

Peace comes from the acceptance of the part of you that can never be at peace.

The more peaceful you are, the more beautiful your face becomes; the more violent you are, the uglier your face becomes!
– Mehmet Murat ildan

Injustice and peace cannot co-exist.

Peace is the foundation of happiness – for where there is anxiety, tension, and turmoil, joy cannot exist.
– RVM

The absence of war is not peace.

Imagine the world as one country with one policy and one president. It would be like having one religion. How peaceful would that be.

Love and respect everyone sincerely, there lies all your peace.

May every being not just learn but MASTER the language of Tolerance, Peace and Love.
– Adiela Akoo

We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.
– Mother Teresa

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
– Thomas Paine

I believe in peace. I believe in mercy.
– Malala Yousafzai

Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.
– Ronald Reagan

We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.
– William E. Gladstone

Highest level of inner peace; when you are able to let go of your ego and smile in the worse situation against the worse person.

The true peace of God begins at any spot a thousand miles from the nearest land.
– Joseph Conrad

I want a world without war, a world without insanity. I want to see people do well. I don’t even think it’s as much as what I want for myself. It’s more what I want for the people around me. That’s what I want.
– Tom Cruise

The best way to defeat your enemy is to make peace with them.

To live peacefully just look up into the sky and watch how the clouds drift in total acceptance. Instantly, you shall find peace.
– RVM

The most beautiful face is always the face of the peaceful mind!
– Mehmet Murat ildan

Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
– William Hazlitt

Indeed, the sage who’s fully quenched rests at ease in every way; no sense desire adheres to him whose fires have cooled, deprived of fuel. All attachments have been severed, the heart’s been led away from pain; tranquil, he rests with utmost ease. The mind has found its way to peace.
– Buddha

Just say hell no to dating and current affairs. You’ll definitely live a worry free life.

If people get education, we may have peace in the world.
– Sipho P Nkosi

Peace is the greatest weapon for development that any person can have.
– Nelson Mandela

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
– Napoleon Bonaparte

Why can’t people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?
– David Baldacci

Fighting for peace is like f**king for chastity.

If peace cannot be maintained with honour, it is no longer peace.
– John Russell

Follow peace with all men, even the ones at war with you.

Everything that upsets you has its source in an assumed identity. Your true self is eternally at peace.
– Deepak Chopra

No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.
– Harry Emerson Fosdick

A dog can bite you but you must not bite the dog! Your every movement in life must be peaceful; otherwise you lose your ethical superiority! Nonviolent civil disobedience is a genius; no power can beat it; use it when necessary!
– Mehmet Murat ildan

Halt the Violence, Hoist the Peace.

Live in peace by avoiding ill-thinking and not acting on it with others.

He who runs after good fortune runs away from peace.
– African Proverb

We both know, you and I, that if all men were gardeners, the world at last would be at peace.
– Beverley Nichols

No one can go beyond God and give birth to peace. God is the standard and so let’s follow the prescribed words of him;there lies the genuine peace.

War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.
– George Orwell

I know it’s too late and too much to ask for peace on earth, but we can we at least start with compassion?

“You have peace,” the old woman said, “when you make it with yourself.”
– Mitch Albom

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