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Peace at home, peace in the world.”

MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATURK
FOUNDER AND 1ST PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF TURKEY
PEACE

“Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.”

FREDERICK BUECHNER
EDUCATOR, WRITER, THEOLOGIAN
HONESTY

“This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.”

PEACE PILGRIM
PACIFIST, PEACE-ACTIVIST
EQUALITY

“Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.”

MAHATMA GANDHI
INDIAN POLITICAL AND SPIRITUAL LEADER
PEACE

Peace does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble, or hard work. Peace means to be in the midst of all those things and still be calm in your heart.”

UNKNOWN
PEACE

“Self-acceptance comes from meeting life's challenges vigorously. Don't numb yourself to your trials and difficulties, nor build mental walls to exclude pain from your life. You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory.”

SWAMI SIVANANDA
SPIRITUAL LEADER, AUTHOR, PHYSICIAN
BELIEVE IN YOURSELF

“I want to live long enough see the day the people in this world put aside their differences and work hand in hand to achieve that state of acceptance of themselves and their surroundings, also known as PEACE.”

NADIA KELIFA
PEACE

“It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling.”

PIERRE BAYLE
PHILOSOPHER
COMMON GROUND

“The world's people all share the earnest aspiration to have peace, stability, justice and cooperation.”

TRAN DUC LUONG
PRESIDENT OF VIETNAM
JUSTICE

“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.”

AMELIA EARHART
AVIATOR, AUTHOR
COURAGE

“...religious experience, as we have studied it, cannot be cited as unequivocally supporting the infinitist belief. The only thing that it unequivocally testifies to is that we can experience union with something larger than ourselves and in that union find our greatest peace.”

WILLIAM JAMES
PSYCHOLOGIST, PHILOSOPHER, AUTHOR
PEACE

“The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.”

TONI MORRISON
AUTHOR, EDITOR, PROFESSOR, NOBEL PRIZE WINNER, PULITZER PRIZE WINNER
PEACE

“Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.”

PEACE PILGRIM
PACIFIST, PEACE-ACTIVIST
LOVE

“He who knows patience knows peace.”

CHINESE PROVERB
PATIENCE

“The deepest...dream is not the hunger for money or fame; it is the dream of settling down, in peace and freedom and cooperation.”

SCOTT RUSSELL SANDERS
NOVELIST AND ESSAYIST
PEACE

“Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.”

JOHN R. WOODEN
BASKETBALL COACH, AUTHOR
HARD WORK

“There are realities we all share, regardless of our nationality, language, or individual tastes. As we need food, so do we need emotional nourishment: love, kindness, appreciation, and support from others. We need to understand our environment and our relationship to it. We need to fulfill certain inner hungers: the need for happiness, for peace of mind -- for wisdom.”

SWAMI KRIYANANDA [J. DONALD WALTERS]
AUTHOR, FOUNDER OF ANANDA
UNITY

“Difference is of the essence of humanity. Difference is an accident of birth and it should therefore never be the source of hatred or conflict. The answer to difference is to respect it. Therein lies a most fundamental principle of peace: respect for diversity. ”

JOHN HUME
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
UNITY

“Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake. ”

VICTOR HUGO
POET, NOVELIST, PLAYWRIGHT
PATIENCE

“Learn to relax. Your body is precious, as it houses your mind and spirit. Inner peace begins with a relaxed body.”

NORMAN VINCENT PEALE
PREACHER, AUTHOR
PEACE

“When there is no where else to turn, turn inward. Enter into the sacred silence of your soul and ask for healing, guidance and personal peace. ”

MICHAIEL BOVENES
SPIRITUAL EMPOWERMENT TEACHER, PROFESSIONAL SPEAKER
SOUL

Peace holds within itself trust in the Lord, the trust that He governs all things and provides all things, and that He leads towards an end that is good. ”

EMANUEL SWEDENBORG
PHILOSOPHER, SCIENTIST, THEOLOGIAN
CONFIDENCE

“If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day.”

ALEX NOBLE
HONESTY

“We shall find peace. We shall hear angels. We shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.”

W. ANTON CHEKOV
PLAYWRIGHT, SHORT-STORY WRITER, PHYSICIAN
CHARITY
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