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"A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself." - Abraham Harold Maslow
"Musicians must make music, artists must paint, poets must write if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves. What humans can be, they must be. They must be true to their own nature." - Abraham Harold Maslow
"There is no way to peace. Peace is the way." - Abraham Johannes Muste
"Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons. You are a child of the universe with no less than the trees and the stars." - Adlai Ewing Stevenson
"If the pursuit of peace is both old and new, it is also both complicated and simple. It is complicated, for it has to do with people, and nothing in this universe baffles man as much as man himself." - Adlai Ewing Stevenson
"We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil; all committed for our safety to its security and peace; preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and, I will say, the love we give our fragile craft." - Adlai Ewing Stevenson
"Our first, our greatest, our most relentless purpose is peace, for without peace there is nothing." - Adlai Ewing Stevenson
"Do not invest your happiness in the outside world, which is constantly changing and can never bring you real peace. Why not place your happiness in God, the unchanging, Who will never let you down?" - Alan Cohen
"No man can serve peace while living in discord. And no man can sustain chaos if he is absorbed in harmony." - Alan Cohen
"A man must seek his happiness and inward peace from objects which cannot be taken away from him." - Alexander von Humboldt
"A peace must seek his happiness and inward peace from objects which cannot be taken away from him." - Alexander von Humboldt
"One of the most ordinary weakness of the human intellect is to seek reconcile contrary principles, and to purchase peace at the expense of logic." - Alexis de Tocqueville, Alexis-Charles-Henri Clérel de Tocqueville
"Peace is self-control at its widest - at the width where the “self” has been lost, and the interest has been transferred to coordinations wider than personality." - Alfred North Whitehead
"Peace, in international affairs, is a period of cheating between two periods of fighting." - Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
"Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear, nor mountain heights where bitter joy can hear the sound of wings." - Amelia Earhart, fully Amelia Mary Earhart
"It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace." - André Gide, fully André Paul Guillaume Gide
"Peace is present when man can see the face that is composed of things that have meaning and are in their place. Peace is present when things form part of a whole greater than their sum, as the diverse minerals in the ground collect to become the tree." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"Peace is much more precious than a piece of land." - Anwar Sadat, fully Muhammad Anwar El Sadat
"It is more difficult to organize peace than to win a war; but the fruits of victory will be lost if the peace is not well organized." - Aristotle NULL
"War must be for the sake of peace, business for the sake of leisure, and all things necessary and useful for the sake of things noble." - Aristotle NULL
"Only through a harmonization of human wills, in a compact freely entered into in the light of divine necessity, can peace prevail among men." - Arnold J. Toynbee, fully Arnold Joseph Toynbee
"If a person measures his spiritual fulfillment in terms of cosmic visions, surpassing peace of mind, or ecstasy, then he is not likely to know much spiritual fulfillment. If, however, he measures it in terms of enjoying a sunrise, being warmed by a child’s smile, or being able to help someone have a better day, then he is likely to know much spiritual fulfillment." - Arthur Asher Miller
"Interests are anchors, and I believe they will bring peace and even happiness in the end." - A.C. Benson, fully Arthur Christopher “A.C.” Benson
"Music... stand quite alone. It is cut off from all the other arts... It does not express a particular and definite joy, sorrow, anguish, horror, delight, or mood of peace, but joy, sorrow, anguish, horror, delight, peace of mind themselves, in the abstract, in their essential nature, without accessories, and therefore without their customary motives. Yet it enables us to grasp and share them fully in this quintessence." - Arthur Schopenhauer
"Peace, Rest and Bliss dwell only where there is no where and no when." - Arthur Schopenhauer
"Our task is that of right living which requires detachment and unconcern for anything except the diligent performance of the tasks for which we are equipped. This is the path of peace." - Arthur W Osborn
"The gift of Shabbos is the gift of peace of mind." - Author Unknown NULL
"In the very depths of your soul, dig a grave; let it be as some forgotten spot to which no path leads; and there in the eternal silence bury the wrongs which you have suffered. Your heart will feel as if a load had fallen from it, and a divine peace come to abide with you." - Author Unknown NULL
"Peace is not the absence of conflict from life, but the ability to cope with it." - Author Unknown NULL
"Appeasement invites aggression; reconciliation invites peace." - Author Unknown NULL
"If you begin the day with love in your heart, peace in your nerves, and truth in your mind, you not only benefit by their presence but also bring them to others, to your family and friends, and to all those whose destiny draws across your path that day." - Author Unknown NULL
"There is a wonderful, mystical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life--happiness, freedom, and peace of mind--are always attained by giving them to someone else." - Author Unknown NULL