Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace Where there is hatred let me sow love Where there is injury, pardon Where there is doubt, faith Where there is despair, hope Where there is darkness, light Where there is sadness, joy. Saint Francis of Assisi

I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia. Woody Allen

Johnson himself turned out to be so many different characters he could have populated all of War and Peace and still had a few people left over. Herbert Mitgang

Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony. Seneca

No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence. Woodrow Wilson

Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none. Richard M. DeVos

Let tears flow of their own accord their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony. Seneca

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace where there is hatred, let me sow love where there is injury, pardon where there is doubt, faith where there is despair, hope where there is darkness, light and where there is sadness, joy. Unknown

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

You can not gain peace by avoiding life. Virginia Woolf

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it. Dwight D Eisenhower

It is within the families themselves where peace can begin. Susan Partnow

Every day we do things, we are things that have to do with peace. If we are aware of our life..., our way of looking at things, we will know how to make peace right in the moment, we are alive. Thich Nhat Hanh

No one would be foolish enough to choose war over peace--in peace sons bury their fathers, but in war fathers bury their sons. Croesus of Lydia

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be. Abraham Maslow

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. Melody Beattie

First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others. Thomas a Kempis, Imitation of Christ, 1420

A harvest of peace is produced from a seed of contentment. American Proverb

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