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Thich Nhat Hanh: “Every morning, when we wake up, we have twenty-four brand-new hours to live. What a precious gift! We have the capacity to live in a way that these twenty-four hours will bring peace, joy, and happiness to ourselves and others.
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Jesse Jackson: “It's time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: “A political victory, a rise in rents, the recovery of your sick, or return of your absent friend, or some other quite external event, raises your spirits, and you think good days are preparing for you. Do not believe it. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
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Barry Neil Kaufman: “Gratitude is one of the sweet shortcuts to finding peace of mind and happiness inside. No matter what is going on outside of us, there's always something we could be grateful for.
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Colman McCarthy: “The earth is too small a star and we too brief a visitor upon it for anything to matter more than the struggle for peace.
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Mohandas K. Gandhi: “Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.
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Christopher Titmuss: “Meditation is applying mindfulness without feelings of being hurried or under pressure.
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John Lennon: “If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.
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Francis of Assisi: “While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
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Larry Eisenberg: “For peace of mind, resign as general manager of the Universe.
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African proverb: “When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.
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Thich Nhat Hanh: “Peace in ourselves, peace in the world.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
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Wangari Maathai: “Consumption patterns continue at the expense of the environment and peaceful co-existence. The choice is ours.
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Thich Nhat Hanh: “Working for peace in the future is to work for peace in the present moment.
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Virginia Woolf: “You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
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William Ellery Channing: “[Peace] is the highest and most strenuous act of the soul, but an entirely harmonious act, in which all our powers and affections are blending in a beautiful proportion, and sustain and perfect one another. It is more than the silence after storms. It is as the concord of all melodious sounds ... an alliance of love with all beings, a sympathy with all that is pure and happy, a surrender of every separate will and interest, a participation of the spirit and life of the universe.... This is peace, and the true happiness of [humanity].
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Amelia Earhart: “Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
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Hafiz of Persia: “I have come into this world to see this: the sword drop from men's hands even at the height of their arc of rage because we have finally realized there is just one flesh we can wound.
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Betty Williams: “Compassion is more important than intellect in calling forth the love that the work of peace needs, and intuition can often be a far more powerful searchlight than cold reason.
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Julian of Norwich: “All will be well, all will be well, and all manner of things will be well.
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Martin Luther King, Jr.: “There is something strangely inconsistent about a nation and a press that would praise you when you say, 'Be nonviolent toward Jim Clark,' but will curse and damn you when you say, 'Be nonviolent toward little brown Vietnamese children.' There is something wrong with that press.
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Melody Beattie: “Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
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Thor Heyerdahl: “Those who have experienced the most, have suffered so much that they have ceased to hate. Hate is more for those with a slightly guilty conscience, and who by chewing on old hate in times of peace wish to demonstrate how great they were during the war.
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Thor Heyerdahl: “A civilized nation can have no enemies, and one cannot draw a line across a map, a line that doesn't even exist in nature and say that the ugly enemy lives on the one side, and good friends live on the other.
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John Lennon: “If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.
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Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lamat: “The greatest degree of inner tranquility comes from the development of love and compassion. The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being.
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Linus Pauling: “Science is the search for truth -- it is not a game in which one tries to beat his opponent, to do harm to others. We need to have the spirit of science in international affairs, to make the conduct of international affairs the effort to find t he right solution, the just solution of international problems, not the effort by each nation to get the better of other nations, to do harm to them when it is possible.
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: “Even if we are spared destruction by war, our lives will have to change if we want to save life from self-destruction.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: “The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.
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