Tao Te Ching
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Peace
Quotes (72)
“The wise see themselves in all others and all others in themselves; and so, they refrain from harming others so that they do not harm themselves.”
“He knows peace who has forgotten desire.”
“Yin, the receptive, earth above; Yang, the creative, heaven below: This hexagram denotes a time in nature when heaven seems to be on earth. Heaven has placed itself beneath the earth and so their powers unite in deep harmony. Then peace and blessings descend upon all living things.”
“Returning to the root brings a peace that recognizes no difference between self and other.”
“In peace prepare for war, in war prepare for peace. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Under no circumstances can it be neglected.”
“Nobody should be mad enough to choose war when there is peace. During times of peace, sons bury their fathers but in war fathers bury their sons.”
“To die is only not to be
Fallen from peace. All that men praise us for...
The thoughts of mine own heart, I craved no more.”
“Sleep is a time of rest. Why spend this time worrying? When there is no self, there will be no dreams.”
“When the country is at peace, no one thinks about kindness and the people are free from desire. When the Tao prevails, kindness and justice vanish like the stars fading when the sun appears.”
“The name of peace is sweet and the thing itself good, but between peace and slavery there is the greatest difference.”
“Death is not the enemy. Live life in joy and welcome death in peace.”
“When the outer has become as the inner, and the lower as the upper, then will this world find peace.”
“Seek peace in your own place, within the self… Once a person establishes peace within the self, that person is capable of establishing it throughout the world.”
“I dream of one world in which all are prosperous and all can take care of their children, and in which there is no war.”
“True teachings pacify violent emotions, conflicting thoughts, and still these wave-like disturbances in meditation.”
“The essential way is to focus on one thing and in action find absolute peace with no desire; impartial, straightforward, tranquil, and all-embracing.”
“The origination of all great and lasting societies consisted not in the mutual good will men had toward each other, but in the mutual fear they had of each other.”
“Live and let live. Peacemakers rule life, sleep without bad dreams, and live a long happy life without dispute.”
“The first great rule of life - to put up with things – is half of all wisdom… We often have to put up with the most from those on whom we most depend… Out of patience comes forth peace, the priceless boon that is the happilness of the world.”
“Peace is not the absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition of benevolence, confidence, justice.”
“Neither trust, nor contend, lay wagers, nor lend; and you’ll have peace until your life's end.”
“With men, the state of nature is not a state of peace, but war; if not of open war, then at least ever ready to break out.”
“War, in its fairest form, implies a perpetual violation of humanity and justice… The terror of the Roman arms added weight and dignity to the moderation of the emperors. They preserved peace by a constant preparation for war”
“Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever.”
“Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.”
“Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.”
“Truths for a new day: Equality between men and women. Prejudice of all kinds must be forgotten. Universal Peace.”
“You may either win your peace or buy it; win it by resistance to evil, buy it by compromise with evil.”
“Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment... the elimination of egoism and pride which always plunges the world into primeval barbarism and strife”
“There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which... is within the souls of men.”
“Peace will come to the hearts of men when they realize their oneness with the universe. It is every where.”
“Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.”
“Peace is the inner nature of humankind. If you find it within yourself, you will then find it everywhere.”
“What bird has done yesterday man may do next year, be it fly, be it moult, be it hatch, be it agreement in the nest.”
“I always had a book in my hand, sometimes Dante, sometimes Homer. As I read the immortal verses, I felt that man could become immortal and that the world's heterogeneous surfae of houses, people, joys, insults—the incoherent chaos we call life—was capable of uniting into harmony.”
“Our human life is always a hell, says the poet (Dante) until wisdom (Virgil) purges us of evil desire, and love (Beatrice) lifts us to happiness and peace.”
“Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace.”
“What is dangerous about tranquillizers is that whatever peace of mind they bring is packaged peace of mind. where you buy a pill and buy peace with it, you get conditioned to cheap solutions instead of deep ones.”
“It is always necessary to protect peaceful people from violence. In any state of society where crime can be profitable you have got to have a harsh criminal law and administer it ruthlessly.”
“Now that man has acquired the physical means of self-obliteration, the question of peace obviously looms larger than ever before in human history. And how could peace be built without some assurance of permanence with regard to our economic life?”
“Bliss and radiance occur of themselves when the mind is tranquil.”
“No one is really working for peace unless he is working primarily for the restoration of wisdom… From an economic point of view, the central concept of wisdom is permanence. We must study an economics of permanence.”
“The mere absence of war is not peace... Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.”
“Daily the world grows smaller, leaving [wisdom] the only place where peace can find a home.”
“When we have peace, then we have a chance to save the planet. But if we are not united in peace, if we do not practice mindful consumption, we cannot save our planet.”
“Peace of mind produces right values, right values produce right thoughts. Right thoughts produce right actions and right actions produce [meaningful] work”
“Violence brings only temporary victories; violence, by creating many more social problems than it solves, never brings permanent peace.”
“If as Sun Tzu says, ‘Deception is the art of war,’ it follows that being genuine and authentic is the art of peace.”
“These cultural mind prisons. . . . have been crippling to human moral and spiritual growth… freedom of thought.. and clearly a barrier to world peace. So long as we continue to attach more importance to our own narrow group membership than to the ‘global village’ we will propagate prejudice and ignorance.”
“We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.”
“Peace is not something you wish for; It's something you make, Something you do , Something you are, And something you give away.”
“The longer you practice nonviolence…, the more likely you are to do something intelligent”
“I’ve been locked up and I know you got to disturb the peace when you can’t get no peace.”
“Every thought, every word, and every action that adds to the positive and the wholesome is a contribution to peace.”
“Traveling makes your mind roll thunder like a train moving down the track. Except you don't know where the fuck that mind train is headed. And then all of a sudden, an idea shits in your head. And you think that shit smells good. Peace is a beautiful but shitty idea.”
“True wisdom is free of the dramas of culture or religion and should bring us only a sense of peace and happiness.”
“fight terrorism like there is no negotiation, and negotiate peace like there is no terrorism.”
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