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- Nov 07, 2020
Peace Quotes
A little calm goes a long way.
One line looks back at a novel's portrait of a connected, peaceful society, another recalls research pursued away from wartime disruption. For reflective verse in the same spirit, browse our Poems.
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- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel that my father's greatest legacy was the people he inspired to get involved in public service and their communities, to join the Peace Corps, to go into space. And really that generation transformed this country in civil rights, social justice, the economy and everything.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think that we really know our animals. We think we do because we're humans, and we think we can control things like that. We don't know anybody that we love. It could be a girlfriend or a cat. I think we just have to be at peace with that.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't hate Charles. I just want my life to count for something. Everyone thinks I just walked out on a paralyzed man. But after he had his stroke, he couldn't hang on to me. And I realized for the first time that I was at peace.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know during my transition it was difficult for me to stop believing I would be stuck unhappy forever, but that's not true. Physical changes take a while but internal feelings of changing and finding your peace can take way longer.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must learn to exist together in peace and love people as they are. That is the only way humanity wins.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
America is the world of peace and must be made the continent of its definite consequence.
- Powerful
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.
- Practice
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I do something that's stressful, I have to find a moment of peace, so I tend to meditate and get in the flow. It's a regular practice of mine.
- Diffusion
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- Nov 07, 2020
The diffusion of a universalist culture and of a pedagogy of peace appears more than ever to be the path that we must follow for the salvation of all nations on earth.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020