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O God,
grant us the serenity to accept what cannot be changed;
the courage to change what can be changed;
and the wisdom
to know one from the other. |
Reinhold
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Quiet
minds cannot be
perplexed or frightened,
but go on in
fortune or
misfortune at their own
private pace,
like a
clock
during a thunderstorm.
Robert
Louis Stevenson
All our miseries derive
from
not being able to
sit in a quiet room alone.
Blaise Pascal
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Only
those to whom God is present
in everything
and who employ their reason in the highest
degree
and have true enjoyment in it know anything of
true peace
and have a real kingdom of heaven.
Meister Eckhart |
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James Carroll
We spend most of our time and energy
in a kind of horizontal thinking.
We move along the
surface of things going from one quick base to another,
often with a frenzy that wears us out. We collect data,
things, people, ideas,
"profound experiences,"
never penetrating any of them. . . .
But there are other
times. There are times when we stop.
We lose ourselves in
a pile of leaves or its memory.
We listen and breezes
from a whole other world begin to whisper. |
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May Sarton
Whatever peace I know rests in the
natural world,
in feeling myself a part of it, even in a
small way. |
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| Philemon F. Sturges
Matthew Arnold counted
as the greatest single line in all poetry
that saying of
Dante's poetic insight: "In Thy will is our peace." |
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Ultimately,
we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large
areas of
peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and
to reflect
it towards others. And the more peace there is
in us, the
more peace there will be in our troubled world.
Etty
Hillesum |
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The most common use of the word peace is as
the opposite of war.
This is understandable but
unfortunate. Peace is not just the opposite
of violence
or turmoil but has a whole register of meanings all its
own.
The peace of a quiet landscape nurtures us. A calm
moment to ourselves
renews our energies. Interior peace
energizes us; exterior peace gives us direction.
A gentle
sun, a calm ocean, the loving smile of a friend--all of
these give us peace.
We are sustained in a sweet aerie of
calm.
The opposite of peace is war, but so are
agitation, anxiety, and violence.
Edward J. Lavin, S.J. |
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The surface of life is
also in a state of constant flux, with good days and bad,
victory and defeat. To maintain, as the ocean does, a
deep inner calm, while the storms of misfortune, reverses,
fears and worries lash at the surface
of life, is to
discover the secret of serenity.
Years ago, when Thomas Edison's factory
burned down, he wasted no time bemoaning his fate.
Immediately after the disaster the reporters found a calm,
quiet man already at work on plans for a new building.
When Emerson's home was destroyed by fire
and his precious books were being reduced to ashes,
Louisa May Alcott came to console him. The great
philosopher said, "Yes, yes, Louisa, they are all
gone, but let us enjoy the blaze now. Isn't it beautiful!"
Some people are ocean personalities. In their
inner depths they are not defeated by what happens to
them.
The towering waves of circumstances cannot
reach us when we go deep within to seek the peace that
passes all understanding. While the surface
of life is in
turmoil we can find an inner calmness to see us through.
Wilferd
A. Peterson |
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Indira Gandhi
You cannot shake hands with a
clenched fist. |
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Lord,
thou madest us for thyself, and we
can find no rest till
we find rest in thee.
St. Augustine |
All people desire peace;
few desire
the things which make for peace.
Anon |
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Calm soul of all things! make it
mine
To feel, amid the city's jar,
That there abides a peace of thine,
Man did not make, and cannot mar!
The will to neither strive nor cry,
The power to feel what others give!
Calm, calm me more! nor let me die
Before I have begun to live.
Matthew Arnold |
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Henry
van Dyke
To be
glad of life, because it gives you the chance to love and
to work
and to play and to look up to the stars; to be
satisfied with your possessions,
but not contented with
yourself until you have made the best of them;
to despise
nothing in the world except falsehood and meanness,
and
to fear nothing except cowardice; to be governed by your
admirations
rather than by your disgusts; to covet
nothing that is your neighbors'
except their kindness of
heart and gentleness of manners;
to think seldom of your
enemies, often of your friends
and every day of Christ;
and to spend as much time as you can
with body and spirit,
in God's out-of-doors--
these are the little guideposts on
the footpath of peace. |
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If you do not find peace in yourself,
you
will never find it anywhere else.
Paula A. Bendry |
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Thinking
about interior peace destroys interior peace. The patients
who constantly feel their pulse are
not getting any better.
Hubert van Zeller |
In truth, to attain to interior peace,
one must be willing to pass through
the contrary to peace.
Swami Brahmananda |
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There
may be those on earth who dress better or eat better,
but
those who enjoy the peace of God sleep better.
L. Thomas Holdcroft |
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We
have no freer or quieter place
to which we may retire
than into our own souls,
particularly when we have within us
such thoughts that by
looking into them we are immediately
in perfect
tranquility. And I affirm that tranquility is nothing
else
than the good ordering of the mind.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus |
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Peace is not
something you fight for
With bombs and missiles that kill,
Nor can it be won in a "battle of words"
One fashions by scheming and skill
For those who are greedy and warlike,
Whose avarice for power cannot cease,
Can never contribute in helping
To bring this world nearer to peace
For in seeking peace for all people
There is only one place to begin
And that is in each home and heart--
For the fortress of peace is within!
Helen Steiner
Rice
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No
one can get inner peace by pouncing on it, by vigorously willing to
have it.
Peace is a margin of power around our daily need.
Peace is a consciousness of springs too deep for earthly droughts to
dry up.
Peace is the gift not of volitional struggle but of
spiritual hospitality.
Harry
Emerson Fosdick
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Inner
peace is not found by staying
on the surface of life, or by attempting
to escape from life through any means.
Inner peace is found by facing life
squarely, solving its problems, and
delving as far beneath the surface as
possible to discover its verities
and realities.
Peace
Pilgrim |
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There
is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace.
You will find that deep place of silence right in your room,
your garden or even your bathtub.
Elisabeth
Kuebler-Ross |
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Nothing
can produce so great a serenity of life as a mind free
from guilt and kept untainted, not only from actions, but purposes
that are wicked. By this
means the soul will be not only unpolluted
but also undisturbed. The
fountain will run clear and unsullied.
Plutarch |
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First keep peace within yourself, then you can also
bring peace to others.
Thomas à Kempis |
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