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"
Quotations
Peace
-Srimad Bhagavad Gita "Bhagwad Gita 2.70"
Peace be upon him who follows the straight Path!
-Baha’u’llah "Baha’u’llah"
Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace.
-Eugene O'Neill
You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
-Virginia Woolf
Peace is a conscious choice.
-John Denver
Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.
-Ronald Reagan
He who is in perfect peace suspects no man. But he who is discontented and disturbed is agitated by various suspicions; he neither has rest himself, nor does he permit others to rest.
-Jesus Christ
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"
That which gives pleasure to one man gives pain to another. That sage who identifies himself with the imperishable Self and stands as a spectator of the mental modifications enjoys supreme peace and infinite bliss.
-Swami Sivananda "Swami Sivananda"
Men destroy each other during war; themselves during peacetime.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
