Men destroy each other during war; themselves during peacetime.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Quotations
Peace
Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.
-Ronald Reagan
This is peace, this is excellent, namely the calm of all impulses, the casting out of all “basis”, the extinction of craving, dispassion, stopping-nirvana.
-Scriptures " Anguttara Nikaya"
As rivers flow into the ocean but cannot make the vast ocean overflow, so flow the streams of the sense - world into the sea of peace that is the sage.
-Srimad Bhagavad Gita "Bhagwad Gita 2.70"
Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.
-Mahatma Gandhi
May peace rule the universe; may peace rule in kingdoms and empires; in states and in the lands of the potentates; in the house of friends and may peace also rule in the house of enemies.
-Virchand Gandhi "Virchand Gandhi"
Peace begins when expectation ends.
-Sri Chinmoy
"Perfection and Transcendence"
The greatest comforts and lasting peace are obtained, when one eradicates selfishness from within.
-A Spiritual Leader "Bani of Guru Gobind Singh"
Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace.
-Eugene O'Neill
There’s harmony and inner peace to be found in following a moral compass that points in the same direction, regardless of fashion or trend.
-Ted Koppel "Ted Koppel"
