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Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.
Absence | Mind | Nations | Peace | People | Relationship | Serenity | Soul | War |
Are you not surprised to find how independent of money peace of conscience is, and how much happiness can be condensed in the humblest home? A cottage will not hold the bulky furniture and sumptuous accommodations of a mansion; but if God be there, a cottage will hold as much happiness as might stock a palace.
As peace is of all goodness, so war is an emblem, a hieroglyphic, of all misery.
Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war.
The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.
Dynamic | Faith | Idealism | Men | Peace | Qualities | Reserve | Sacrifice | Self | Self-sacrifice | War | Will | World |
The serene decision of the tombs is beautiful, their uncompromising architecture and the little squares with the coolness of a patio and the isolation and eternal individuation; each contemplated his own death, unique and personal like a memory. The quietude pleases us, we confuse such peace in life with dying and while we believe we desire not to be , we are praying for a peaceful life.
Death | Decision | Desire | Eternal | Isolation | Life | Life | Little | Memory | Peace | Unique |
The elementary idea, likewise, of the Promised Land cannot originally have referred to a part of this earth to be conquered by military right, but to a place of spiritual peace in the heart, to be discovered through contemplation.
So natural to mankind is intolerance in whatever they really care bout, that religious freedom has hardly anywhere been practically realized, except where religious indifference, which dislikes to have its peace disturbed by theological quarrels, has added its weight to the scale.
Care | Freedom | Indifference | Intolerance | Mankind | Peace |
O soul! life is a darkness which ends as in the sunburst of day. The yearning of my heart tells me there is peace in the grave. O soul! if some fool tell you the soul perishes like the body and that which dies never returns, tell him the flower perishes but the seed remains and lies before us as the secret of life everlasting.
Body | Darkness | Day | Ends | Grave | Heart | Life | Life | Peace | Soul |
When vitality runs high, death takes men by surprise. But if they close their eyes to this possibility, what they gain in peace they lose in sensibility and significance.
Death | Men | Peace | Sensibility |
Cicero, fully Marcus Tullius Cicero, anglicized as Tully NULL
An unjust peace is better than a just war.
Marcel Proust, fully Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust
There can be no peace of mind in love, since the advantage one has secured is never anything but a fresh starting-point for further desires.