Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.
Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.
Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness.
It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.
The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.
Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself.
He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.
If I choose to bless another person, I will always end up feeling more blessed.
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.
War is never a lasting solution for any problem.
All wars signify the failure of conflict resolution mechanisms, and they need post-war rebuilding of faith, trust and confidence.
The future is a concept, it doesn’t exist. There is no such thing as tomorrow. There never will be, because time is always now. That’s one of the things we discover when we stop talking to ourselves and stop thinking. We find there is only present, only an eternal now.
Don’t hurry anything. Don’t worry about the future. Don’t worry about what progress you’re making. Just be entirely content to be aware of what is.