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Perhaps peace is more than happiness.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

Benjamin Franklin /

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

Nelson Mandela /

If you want to live in peace with yourself, you have to accept yourself as you are.

Selma Lagerlöf /

Thoughts at peace. That is the goal someone who philosophizes longs for.

Ludwig Wittgenstein /

If you want to make peace there must be two people, you yourself and the neighbor opposite.

Aristide Briand /

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Better than a thousand hollow words
Is one word that brings peace.

Gautama Buddha /

In a world of peace and love, music would be the universal language.

Henry David Thoreau - The Service /

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

Virginia Woolf /

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

Marcus Tullius Cicero /

Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.

William Shakespeare - Henry IV, Part 2 /

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Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Friedrich Schiller - William Tell /

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Peace starts with each one of us.

Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama /

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Men, for years now, have been talking about war and peace. But now, no longer can they just talk about it. It is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence in this world; it's nonviolence or nonexistence.

Martin Luther King Jr. /

True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

Martin Luther King Jr. /

The struggle for world peace is the greatest battle of all.

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Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where the people are fed, and where individuals and nations are free. True peace with oneself and with the world around us can only be achieved through the development of mental peace.

Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.

Martin Luther King Jr.

You want peace: create love.

To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.

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I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.

None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.

Theodor W. Adorno

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

Winston Churchill

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

George Bernard Shaw

Peace cannot be kept by force it can only be achieved by understanding.

Albert Einstein

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

George Bernard Shaw