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A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one. -- Rita Mae Brown
The way of peace is the way of truth. Truthfulness is even more important than peacefulness. -- Mahatma Gandhi
When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Those who seek to become immortals must regard loyalty, filiality, peacefulness, obedience, benevolence and trustworthiness as fundamental. -- Ge Hong
Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace. -- Albert Schweitzer
Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or later. -- Alice Munro
Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself. -- Honore de Balzac
If you want to create a beautiful world, people in positions of responsibility and power should know a certain sense of joyfulness and peacefulness. -- Jaggi Vasudev
Sometimes I have loved the peacefulness of an ordinary Sunday. It is like standing in a newly planted garden after a warm rain. You can feel the silent and invisible life. -- Marilynne Robinson
For a nation to be known as warrior is a shame! For a nation to be known as peaceful is an honour! Violence brings shame, killing brings disgrace; peacefulness brings honour, nonviolence brings esteem! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
We can all learn that we can take full responsibility for what thoughts we are thinking and what emotional circuitry we are feeling. Knowing this and acting on this can lead us into feeling a wonderful sense of well-being and peacefulness. -- Jill Bolte Taylor
The first stage of this tranquility consists in silencing the lips when the heart is excited. The second, in silencing the mind when the soul is still excited. The goal is a perfect peacefulness even in the middle of the raging storm. -- John Climacus
You might be tempted to avoid the messiness of daily living for the tranquility of stillness and peacefulness. This of course would be an attachment to stillness, and like any strong attachment, it leads to delusion. It arrests development and short-circuits the cultivation of wisdom. -- Jon Kabat-Zinn
All I will say is we get wiser as we get older. And that what I am looking for in life is the same as I always have; happiness, peacefulness and joy. And that's all I'm going to say about that because otherwise I'd get into trouble -- George Clooney
The Buddha said that all conscious beings possess an enlightened nature. Because of that, we have this natural purity, peacefulness and power. We can rest the mind naturally because we are already in possession of these qualities. If one can rest the mind naturally, that's the best meditation. -- Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
If you want to be a civilised man, first you have to be a non-violent man! If you want to be a civilised country, first you have to be a non-violent country! Violence is the means of the sick minds; peacefulness is the means of the healthy minds! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
I grew up in Hollywood, California. A lot of my parents' friends were in the motion picture industry, but I saw their doctor friends as more solid. I admired them; there was a peacefulness in them, a sense of purpose that I liked. So I became very interested in being a surgeon. -- Spencer Johnson
I am a trained hypnotherapist, yes, but it's more like a guided meditation. Most of the people I take under struggle with stress in their lives and have unbalanced sleeping patterns, so what I do enables my patients to regain energy and peacefulness on a subconscious level which affects their conscious mind. -- Tanit Phoenix
England must have the mask of Christian peaceableness [peacefulness] torn publicly from her face... Our consuls in Turkey and India, agents, etc. must inflame the whole Muslim world to wild revolt against this hateful, lying, conscienceless people of hagglers. For even if we are to be bled to death, at least England shall lose India. -- Wilhelm II
Competition is healthy. Competition is life. Yet most actors refuse to acknowledge this. They don't want to compete. They want to get along. And they are therefore not first-rate actors. The good actor is the one who competes, willingly, who enjoys competing. An actor must compete, or die...Peacefulness and the avoidance of trouble won't help in his acting. It is just the opposite he must seek. -- Michael Shurtleff
True peacefulness comes from abandoning the illustion that satisfying desires brings pleasure. -- Joan Z. Borysenko
I've just become quite fixated on the idea of calmness and peacefulness somewhere, someday. -- Ellie Goulding
There is a peacefulness, an air of reflection, about a rocking-chair that attaches to no other moving object ... -- Wallis Simpson
In higher samadhi, in absence of any support, the consciousness is absorbed within itself in perfect awareness, clarity and peacefulness. -- Amit Ray
Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It's peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose. -- Barbara Kingsolver
I find music distracting - it takes me out of my head. What I love so much about skiing is the peacefulness. -- Julia Mancuso
If you want to really know higher dimensions of life, there needs to be a constant sense of peacefulness and joyfulness within you -- Jaggi Vasudev
Younger people tend to associate happiness more with excitement and the future, while older people tend to associate happiness with peacefulness in the present. -- Chip Conley
Holiness appeared to me to be of a sweet, pleasant, charming, serene, calm nature; which brought an inexpressible purity, brightness, peacefulness and ravishment to the soul. -- Jonathan Edwards
Just as white light consists of colored rays, so reverence for life contains all the components of ethics: love, kindliness, sympathy, empathy, peacefulness and power to forgive. -- Albert Schweitzer
I am learning peacefulness, lying by myself quietly, as the light lies on these white walls, this bed, these hands. I am nobody; I have nothing to do with explosions. -- Sylvia Plath
What I paint touches on foundational life values. Home, family, peacefulness. And one of the messages I try to constantly get across is, 'Slow it down and enjoy every moment.' -- Thomas Kinkade

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