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"Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, "I will never leave you nor forsake you." So we can confidently say, "The Lord is my helper; I will not fear; what can man do to me?" (Hebrews 13:5-6)"
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jesus
rock
peace
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John Piper |
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b7c6238
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The dark side is emotion, Bane. Anger, hate, love, lust. These are what make us strong, Peace is a lie. There is only passion. Your passion is still there, Bane. Seek it out. Reclaim it.
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hate
dark
emotion
love
sith
peace
star-wars
lust
strong
lie
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Drew Karpyshyn |
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6e4a44f
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I find my thoughts, increasingly, not on the supernatural or spiritual but on what is meant by living a good and worthwhile life--achieving a sense of peace within oneself.
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morality
endd-of-life
peace
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Oliver Sacks |
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The precious gift of life must be preserved no matter now painful and pointless it seemed. Peace, I told them, is a gift so perfect that only God should grant it. I told people, only God's most selfish children would steal God's greatest gift, His only gift greater than life. The gift of death. This lesson is to the murderer, I said. This is to the suicide. This is to the abortionist. This is to the suffering and sick. Only God has the right to surprise His children with death.
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suicide
god
life
peace
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Davout looked up and gazed intently at him. For some seconds they looked at one another, and that look saved Pierre. Apart from conditions of war and law, that look established human relations between the two men. At that moment an immense number of things passed dimly through both their minds, and they realized that they were both children of humanity and were brothers.
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war
peace
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Leo Tolstoy |
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When we look back, it becomes clear that the acts and accomplishments of human beings are the signatures of history. Human signatures have created an enormous chasm between the joyeous light of the age of the Renaissance to the dark shadow of September 11, 2001. Those of us living on that fateful day experienced the lower depths of mankind. As an author, avid reader, world traveler, and person of enormous curiosity, my life experiences have taught me that discord often erupts from a lack of knowledge and education. To discourage future dark moments, I believe we must nourish the minds of our young with learning that creates understanding between ethnic and religious groups. Perhaps understanding will lead to a marvelous day when we take a last fleeting look at violence so harmful to so many. I sincerely believe that nothing will further the cause of peace more than the education of our young. I would like for readers to know that a percentage of the profits from the sale of this book will be devoted to the cause of education. May all roads lead to peace.
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understanding
religious
world-peace
tolerance
peace
human-beings
knowledge
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Jean Sasson |
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97bce21
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If you divide the world into them and us, and history into ours and theirs, or if you think of history as something only you and your affiliates possess, then no matter what you know, no matter how noble your intentions, you have taken one step toward the destruction of the world.
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peace
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Robert Bringhurst |
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d0c42e9
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But I do like churches. The way it feels inside. It feels good when you just sit there, like you're in a forest and everything's really quiet, except there's still this sound you can't hear.
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silence
forest
quiet
peace
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Tim O'Brien |
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711606d
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Of course there is no veneer, the process is one of growth, and primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war.
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war
primitiveness
society
peace
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Ursula K. Le Guin |
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b8817dc
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...anyone can make a desert and call it peace...
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peace
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Kate Elliott |
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"I have brought peace to this land, and security," he began. "And what of your soul, when you use the cleverness of argument to cloak such acts? Do you think that the peace of a thousand cancels out the unjust death of one single person? It may be desirable, it may win you praise from those who have happily survived you and prospered from your deeds, but you have committed ignoble acts, and have been too proud to own them. I have waited patiently here, hoping that you would come to me, for if you understood, then some of your acts would be mitigated. But instead you send me this manuscript, proud, magisterial, and demonstrating only that you have understood nothing at all." "I returned to public life on your advice, madam," he said stiffly. "Yes; I advised it. I said if learning must die it should do so with a friend by its bedside. Not an assassin." --
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virtue
injustice
killing
good
learning
philosophy
public-office
doctrine
prosperity
peace
pride
vice
soul
values
evil
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Iain Pears |
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d4ad6d3
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...when you trust the Lord God to give you the next step, when you wait in humility upon Him, *He* will open the doors or close them, and you'll get to rest and relax until He says, 'Go.
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trust
god
humility
peace
waiting
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Charles R. Swindoll |
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98a922c
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"They put spotlights on me standing there in the road in jeans and workclothes, with the big woeful rucksack a-back, and asked:-"Where are you going?" which is precisely what they asked me a year later under Television floodlights in New York, "Where are you going?"-Just as you cant explain to the police, you cant explain to society "Looking for peace."
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religion
society
peace
police
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Jack Kerouac |
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d238018
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Lull me to sleep, ye winds, whose fitful sound Seems from some faint Aeolian harp-string caught; Seal up the hundred wakeful eyes of thought As Hermes with his lyre in sleep profound The hundred wakeful eyes of Argus bound; For I am weary, and am overwrought With too much toil, with too much care distraught, And with the iron crown of anguish crowned. Lay thy soft hand upon my brow and cheek, O peaceful Sleep! until from pain released I breathe again uninterrupted breath! Ah, with what subtile meaning did the Greek Call thee the lesser mystery at the feast Whereof the greater mystery is death!
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sleep
weariness
peace
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
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e705f8e
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It was a time for warm embraces, for smiles, for toasts and reconciliations, for renewing old friendships and making new ones, for laughter and kisses. It was a good time, a golden autumn, a time of peace and plenty. But winter was coming.
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laughter
happiness
time-for-love
winter-is-coming
prosperity
peace
threat
ominous
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George R.R. Martin |
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23869af
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Wie ich heimschritt bemerkte ich mit einemmal vor mir meinen eigenen Schatten so wie ich den Schatten des anderen Krieges hinter dem jetzigen sah. Er ist durch all diese Zeit nicht mehr von mir gewichen dieser Schatten er uberhing jeden meiner Gedanken bei Tag und bei Nacht vielleicht liegt sein dunkler Umriss auch auf manchen Blattern dieses Buches. Aber jeder Schatten ist im letzten doch auch Kind des Lichts und nur wer Helles und Dunkles Krieg und Frieden Aufstieg und Niedergang erfahren nur der hat wahrhaft gelebt.
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mourning
war
remembrance
europe
peace
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Stefan Zweig |
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19b2d52
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I beseech you, little brothers, that you be as wise as brother Daisy and brother dandelion; for never do they lie awake thinking of tomorrow, yet they have gold crowns like kings and emperors or like Charlemagne in all his glory.
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simplicity
peace
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G.K. Chesterton |
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b98c38f
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The seeds of war are oft planted during times of peace.
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war
peace
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George R.R. Martin |
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8ef666b
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By prolonged and continued fellowship, the sheep who follow nearby enjoy the shepherd's presence and become his familiar companions. To those closest to him, he shares the choicest portions of the food he's gathered. These happy and content sheep are never in danger. Why? Because they are near the shepherd!
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peace
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Elizabeth George |
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ce07b6c
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The morning brought more peace if it did not entirely dissipate fear.
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morning
peace
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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7c9b745
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Finally we came over a rise and I saw the Caribbean...My first feeling was a wild desire to drive a stake in the sand and claim the place for myself. The beach was white as salt, and cut off from the world by a ring of steep hills that faced the sea. We were on the edge of a large bay and the water was that clear, turquoise color that you get with a white sand bottom. I had never seen such a place. I wanted to take off all my clothes and never wear them again.
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peace
desire
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Hunter S. Thompson |
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The world had been divided into two parts that sought to annihilate each other because they both desired the same thing, namely the liberation of the oppressed, the elimination of violence, and the establishment of permanent peace.
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irony
war
humanity
peace
dark-humor
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Hermann Hesse |
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e0eaa76
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"Meditation," said his teacher, "hasn't got a damn thing to do with anything, 'cause all it has to do with is nothing. Nothingness. Okay? It doesn't develop the mind, it dissolves the mind. Self-improvement? Forget it, baby. It erases the self. Throws the ego out on its big brittle ass. What good is it? Good for nothing. Excellent for nothing. Yes, Lord, but when you get down to nothing, you get down to ultimate reality. It's then and exactly then that you're sensing the true nature of the universe, you're linked up with the absolute Absolute, son, and unless you're content with blowing smoke up your butt all your life, that there's the only place to be."
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spirituality
nothingness
emptiness
meditation
peace
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Tom Robbins |
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Money follows interest, and interest is largely driven by media attention, which is more easily captured by the drama of conflict than by peace.
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peace
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Roméo Dallaire |
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It will never end. Till the world ends in the chaos of Ragnarok, we will fight for our women, for our land, and for our homes. Some Christians speak of peace, of the evil of war, and who does not want peace? But then some crazed warrior comes screaming his god's filthy name into your face and his only ambitions are to kill you, to rape your wife, to enslave your daughters, and take your home, and so you must fight.
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rape
war
world
god
enslave
must
ragnarok
daughters
face
chaos
christians
wife
take
end
home
warrior
peace
kill
fight
evil
name
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Bernard Cornwell |
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beef11e
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That's what peace is, right? Postponing the conflict until the thing you were fighting over doesn't matter.
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politics
conflict-resolution
fighting
peace
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James S.A. Corey |
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"As surely as I feel love and need for food and water, I feel love and need for God. But these feelings have nothing to do with Supramundane Males planning torments for those who don't abide by neocon "moral values." I hold the evangelical truth of our situation to be that contemporary politicized fundamentalists, including first and foremost those aimed at Empire and Armageddon, need us non-fundamentalists, mystics, ecosystem activists, unprogrammable artists, agnostic humanitarians, incorrigible writers, truth-telling musicians, incorruptible scientists, organic gardeners, slow food farmers, gay restaurateurs, wilderness visionaries, pagan preachers of sustainability, compassion-driven entrepreneurs, heartbroken Muslims, grief-stricken children, loving believers, loving disbelievers, peace-marching millions, and the One who loves us all in such a huge way that it is not going too far to say: they need us for their salvation."
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spirituality
religion
salvation
mystics
peace
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David James Duncan |
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The old face, crinkled and dented with canals running every which way, pushed and shoved up against itself for a while, till a big old smile busted out from beneath 'em all, and his grey eyes fairly glowed. It was the first time I ever saw him smile free. A true smile. It was like looking at the face of God. And I knowed then, for the first time, that him being the person to lead the colored to freedom weren't no lunacy. It was something he knowed true inside him. I saw it clear for the first time. I knowed then, too, that he knowed what I was - from the very first.
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slavery
humanity
god
peace
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James McBride |
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cd74f2c
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Listen, if you want peace you must learn to drink cha from an empty cup.
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cup
tea
peace
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James Clavell |
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[Y]ou were too alert to the figurative possibilities of words not to see the phrase [angle of repose] as descriptive of human as well as detrital rest. As you said, it was too good for mere dirt; you tried to apply it to your own wandering and uneasy life ... I wonder if you ever reached it.
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uneasiness
wandering
rest
peace
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Wallace Stegner |
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"Years ago, a member of Congress slipped a laminated quote into my hand that he must have thought I would find meaningful. I paid little attention at first and unfortunately I don't recall just who gave me the quote. I placed it next to my voting card and have carried it ever since. The quote came from Elie Wiesel's book One Generation After. The quote was entitled "Why I Protest." Author Elie Wiesel tells the story of the one righteous man of Sodom, who walked the streets protesting against the injustice of this city. People made fun of him, derided him. Finally, a young person asked: "Why do you continue your protest against evil; can't you see no one is paying attention to you?" He answered, "I'll tell you why I continue. In the beginning, I thought I would change people. Today, I know I cannot. Yet, if I continue my protest, at least I will prevent others from changing me." I'm not that pessimistic that we can't change people's beliefs or that people will not respond to the message of liberty and peace. But we must always be on guard not to let others change us once we gain the confidence that we are on the right track in the search for truth." --
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politics
confidence
truth
elie-wiesel
ron-paul
liberty
peace
protest
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Ron Paul |
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In the eleven months preceding the outbreak of World War II, 211 treaties of peace were signed. Were these treaties of peace written on paper, or were they written on the hearts of men? And we must ask ourselves as we hear of treaties being written today, whether the treaties of the UN are written with the full cognizance of the fact that those who sign them are responsible before God?
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politics
treaties
world-war-2
peace
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Fulton J. Sheen |
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In the immediate vicinity, there might well be stability and peace. In the garden, a breeze may be swaying the branches of the plum tree and dust may slowly be gathering on the bookshelves in the living room. But we are aware that such serenity does not do justice to the chaotic and violent fundamentals of existence and hence, after a time, it has a a habit of growing worrisome in its own way.
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violence
concern
serenity
chaos
news
worry
peace
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Alain de Botton |
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"Old Rekohu's claim to singularity, however, lay in its unique pacific creed. Since time immemorial, the Moriori's priestly caste dictated that whosoever spilt a man's blood killed his own mana - his honor, his worth, his standing & his soul. No Moriori would shelter, feed, converse with, or even see the persona non grata. If the ostracized murderer survived his first winter, the desperation of solitude usually drove him to a blowhole on Cape Young, where he took his life. Consider this, Mr. D'Arnoq urged us. Two thousand savages (Mr. Evans's best guess) enshrine "Thou Shalt Not Kill" in word & in deed & frame an oral "Magna Carta" to create a harmony unknown elsewhere for the sixty centuries since Adam first tasted the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge. War was as alien a concept to the Moriori as the telescope is to the Pygmy. Peace, not a hiatus betwixt wars but millennia of imperishable peace, rules these far-flung islands. Who can deny Old Rekohu lay closer to More's Utopia than our States of Progress governed by war-hungry princelings in Versailles & Vienna, Washington & Westminster? "Here," declaimed Mr. D'Arnoq, "and where only, were those elusive phantasms, those noble savages, framed in flesh & blood!" (Henry, as we later made our back to the Musket confessed, "I could never describe a race of savages too backwards to throw a spear as 'noble."
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war
peace
utopia
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David Mitchell |
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27f168d
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Why had peace given place so soon to turmoil? To two separate solitudes? Because peace had been without thought? Without...integrity? How could she have felt like that without love? Was love essential? Did it even exist - the love she had dreamed of her life? If it did, it was too late now for her to find it. Must she make do with this instead, then? Only this? Pleasure without love?
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peace
pleasure
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Mary Balogh |
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66df5db
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Wisdom is the God-given ability to see life with rare objectivity and to handle life with rare stability.
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joy
faith
god
life
love
wisdom
point-of-view
stable
view
stability
objectivity
see
christian
peace
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Elizabeth George |
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109a3ea
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It is two A.M., and you are tired. You miss the love of your life. You want to go home. You would rather be with her, in bed, hearing the light buzz of her snoring, watching her sleep, than be here. [...] You imagine a world where the two of you can go out to dinner together on a Saturday night and no one thinks twice about it. It makes you want to cry, the simplicity of it, the smallness of it. You have worked so hard for a life so grand. And now all you want are the smallest freedoms. The daily peace of loving plainly.
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love
peace
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Taylor Jenkins Reid |
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0127538
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Si percibo en otra persona nada mas que lo superficial, percibo principalmente las diferencias, lo que nos separa. Si penetro hasta el nucleo, percibo nuestra identidad, el hecho de nuestra hermandad.
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humanity
life
love
peace
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Erich Fromm |
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104ab4f
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By the time she awoke she couldn't even remember if she had a dream or a nightmare. There had only been a deathlike peace.
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sleep
dream
death
dreams
amanda
awoke
building-122
deathlike
group-2
kings-park
kings-park-psychiatric-center
kings-park-state-hospital
kppc
kpsh
psych-ward
jason-medina
peace
hospital
nightmare
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Jason Medina |
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8ca7ff5
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"One day the people of the world will want peace
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peace
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Dwight D. Eisenhower |
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768bbab
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"I walked with my eyes on the path, but out of the corners of them I saw a man hiding behind an olive tree. He did not move as we approached, but I fell that he was watching us. As soon as we had passed I heard a scamper. Wilson, like a hunted animal, had made for safely. That was the last I ever saw of him.
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inspiring
mountain
peace
moonlight
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W. Somerset Maugham |
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73df0cc
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He longed for cleanliness and tidiness: it was hard to find peace in the middle of disorder.
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pure
cleanliness
dirty
long
mess
organized
seek
tidiness
tidy
disorder
peace
desire
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Robin Hobb |
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3b18625
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...[F]or there are times when bed is the only place on earth where peace is to be had, and that was one of them.
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peace
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Richard Llewellyn |
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a0ee4d7
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My species has a great many good reasons for making war, though none of them is as good as the reason for not making war.
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war
peace
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Ursula K. Le Guin |
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5322620
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"Oh, I'm Chrissy Mackenzie, I'm from Vancouver but I came here to study environmental journalism," the girl exclaimed with way too much enthusiasm. "You got any advice?" "Search me," Mandy muttered, spooning another ice cube from the empty glass on the table in front of her. "I like pollution, I write in favor of it, and environmental journalism most often implies that it's in favor of all that "go green" hippie crap." "Oh, well...." Chrissy seemed taken aback, offended, and Mandy sighed a fourth time. "Damn it, I'm really sorry," she apologized, smiling dismally at the aspiring writer. "It's just been a really lousy day for me and I wasn't really thinking. My advice? Find your own cause to represent, not one thrown out into society by a ton of environmentalist dopes. Find something new, something you think could be improved, and work from there." Chrissy smiled with a look of total ecstasy as if the words of some nobody woman were important. Mandy momentarily noticed the groups of laughing, drunk, giggling people, all acting childish... and for a moment she wished she could be them."
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world
joy
change
hope
drea
environmntal
gol
ice-cube
vancouver
cape-breton
nova-scotia
hippie
journalist
pollution
improve
friend
peace
drunk
sad
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Rebecca McNutt |
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31adbc9
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"Pico Iyer: "And at some point, I thought, well, I've been really lucky to see many, many places. Now, the great adventure is the inner world, now that I've spent a lot of time gathering emotions, impressions, and experiences. Now, I just want to sit still for years on end, really, charting that inner landscape because I think anybody who travels knows that you're not really doing so in order to move around--you're traveling in order to be moved. And really what you're seeing is not just the Grand Canyon or the Great Wall but some moods or intimations or places inside yourself that you never ordinarily see when you're sleepwalking through your daily life. I thought, there's this great undiscovered terrain that Henry David Thoreau and Thomas Merton and Emily Dickinson fearlessly investigated, and I want to follow in their footsteps."
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enlightenment
travel
nature
spirit
humanity
faith
beauty
wisdom
inner-landscape
mindfulness
peace
mystery
introspection
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Krista Tippett |
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b755784
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"Der kom en vederkvaegende ro, en dyb fred og fryd over mig, det var som nar en feber ophorer. "Her," taenkte jeg, "kan jeg blive."
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quiet
peace
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Karen Blixen Isak Dinesen |
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c33222a
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You can have all the money in the world, one of the biggest mansions ever built, be one of the most famous people in the world, and still be as unhappy as Mariah Carey was. Money and fame don't make people happy. Only God does. Amen.
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money
joy
god
success
love
mansion
worldly
mariah-carey
unhappy
fame
peace
popularity
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Lisa Bedrick |
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99a2517
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War is a bad thing, but peace can be a living horror
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war
living-horror
ray-bradbury
peace
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Ray Bradbury |
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d3bb3dc
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"When I reach the end of one row, I continue straight on away from the barn and the farm and the road. I walk until I come to a pile of hay bales and plop myself down. The sun is bright and the air is sharp. In the distance I hear the lowing of cows. It's so peaceful here. "Merry Christmas, " I whisper to myself. "Merry Christmas, Nate."
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loneliness
sadness
hope
life
cora
nate
peace
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Lisa Ann Sandell |
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2ea43fc
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Nothing is easier than to get peaceful people to renounce violence, even when they provide no concrete ways to prevent violence from others.
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violence
war
peace
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Thomas Sowell |
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ed0971a
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I do not wish to quarrel with any man or nation. I do not wish to split hairs, to make fine distinctions, or set myself up as better than my neighbors. I seek rather, I may say, even an excuse for conforming to the laws of the land. I am but too ready to conform to them.
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unity
politics
law
peace
obedience
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Henry David Thoreau |
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a9ca461
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"Peace": the fruit of justice done especially to the Self."
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self
peace
justice
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Alice Walker |
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418d3e9
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La paz es como el cristal: si se golpea repetidamente, termina mostrando su fragilidad.
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spanish
paz
peace
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David Mitchell |
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a93194d
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How would I explain to him that I couldn't make peace with him? How would I explain that if I did I would immediately lose my inner balance? How would I explain that one of the arms of my internal scales would suddenly shoot upward? How would I explain that my hatred of him counterbalanced the weight of evil that had fallen on my youth? How would I explain that he embodied all the evils in my life? How would I explain to him that I needed to hate him?
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hate
meaning
czech
definition
structure
enemy
peace
forgiveness
novel
evil
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Milan Kundera |
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f85103b
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"There are five people you meet in heaven," the Blue Man suddenly said. "Each of us was in your life for a reason. You may not have known the reason at the time, and that is what heaven is for. For understanding your life on Earth." Eddie looked confused. "People think of heaven as a paradise garden, a place where they can float on clouds and laze in rivers and mountains. But scenery without solace is meaningless. "This is the greatest gift God can give you: To understand what happened in your life. To have it explained. It is the peace you have been searching for."
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|
enlightenment
death
god
life
wisdom
explanation
meaning-of-life
peace
knowledge
power
life-after-death
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Mitch Albom |
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0a47c46
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If a transaction in progress appeared threatened with failure, if a shipment of goods seemed to have gone astray, or if a debtor appeared unable to repay his debt, Kamaswami was never able to persuade Siddhartha that it was useful to speak words of worry or of anger, to have a wrinkled brow, or to sleep poorly.
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worry
peace
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Hermann Hesse |
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c0f7a98
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Ansar is an Arabic term that means helpers or supporters. They were the citizens of Medina who helped Prophet Mohammed upon His arrival to the Holy city. While 'Hussain' is a derivation of 'Hassan' that means 'GOOD' (I also owe this one to Khaled Hosseini). That's how my favorite character in my debut novel 'When Strangers meet..' gets his name... HUSSAIN ANSARI, because he is the one who helps Jai realize the truth in the story and inspires his son, Arshad, to have FAITH in Allah.
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india
philosophy
inspirational
anecdotes
hussain
iyer
jai
mecca
medina
mohmet
pathan
pathanvali
when-strangers-meet
khaled-hosseini
mohammad
trivia
hassan
prophet
pakistan
mohammed
muslim
peace
islam
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K. Hari Kumar |
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feffc6a
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We often live as if our happiness depended on having. But I don't know anyone who is really happy because of what he or she has. True joy, happiness, and inner peace come from the giving of ourselves to others. A happy life is a life for others. That truth, however, is usually discovered when we are confronted with our brokenness.
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sacrifice
happiness
humility
peace
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Henri J.M. Nouwen |
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The black land slid by and he was going into the country among the hills. For the first time in a dozen years the stars were coming out above him, in great processions of wheeling fire. He saw a great juggernaut of stars form in the sky and threaten to roll over and crush him... the river was mild and leisurely, going away from the people who ate shadows for breakfast and steam for lunch and vapors for supper. The river was very real; it held him comfortably and gave him the time at last, the leisure, to consider this month, this year, and a lifetime of years. He listened to his heart slow. His thoughts stopped rushing with his blood.
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solitude
stars
river
real
peace
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Ray Bradbury |
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67111b7
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Marko: No matter what mistakes you've see your daddy make, violence---magical or otherwise---is never acceptable. Petrichor: Nonsense, Marko. Violence is often : in self-defense, the arts foreplay... Hazel: I want to four-play!
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violence
pacifism
peace
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Brian K. Vaughan |
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9b4e656
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We must seize every opportunity we can to speak the truth and proclaim peace. Especially now. There's so little time for many.
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time
truth
proclaim
speak
peace
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Francine Rivers |
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b32b8d5
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Lord, help me to have Your love and forgiveness in my heart. Enable me to live in peace, tranquility, simplicity, and good health. In Jesus name I pray. Amen.
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heart
love
pray
peace
wholeness
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Stormie Omartian |
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The monks' response was to climb into their curraghs and row off toward Greenland. They were drawn across the storm-racked ocean, drawn west past the edge of the known world, by nothing more than a hunger of the spirit, a yearning of such queer intensity that it beggars the modern imagination.
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spirit
papar
peace
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Jon Krakauer |
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67afad0
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As soon as he had left the room and walked into the air, he knew that he would never return and for the first time his fears lifted. It was a spring morning, and when he walked into Severndale Park he felt the breeze bringing back memories of a much earlier life, and he was at peace. He sat beneath a tree and looked up at its leaves in amazement - where once he might have gazed at them and sensed there only the confusion of his own thoughts, now each leaf was so clear and distinct that he could see the lightly coloured veins which carried moisture and life. And he looked down at his own hand, which seemed translucent beside the bright grass. His head no longer ached, and as he lay upon the earth he could feel its warmth beneath him.
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nature-s-beauty
peace
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Peter Ackroyd |
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5fe0d1b
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To stomp about the world ignoring cultural differences is arrogant, to be sure, but perhaps there is another kind of arrogance in the presumption that we may ever really build a faultless bridge from one shore to another, or even know where the mist has ceded to landfall.
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world
nations
peace
diplomacy
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Barbara Kingsolver |
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Peace means no one is worried about anyone else's cookie...in this moment we are all quietly content with the cookies we have.
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peace
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Amy Krouse Rosenthal |
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There is nothing dishonorable about abandoning pain. Sometimes peace is most quickly found when a man simply stops avoiding it.
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pain
truth
find
move-on
peace
honor
forget
dishonor
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Robin Hobb |
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e8d7cba
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We could not have found peace unless the desire for it was already here.
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peace
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Colum McCann |
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dca1b95
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The events that occur in my life are workout situations. They are there for my benefit so I can become strong and gain wisdom and information by working my way through those situations.
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pain
joy
happiness
life
love
philosophy
wisdom
addiction-free
chris-prentiss-quotes
addiction-and-recovery
passages-ventura
passages-malibu
chris-prentiss
philosophy-of-life
peace
guilt
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Chris Prentiss |
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c8654ef
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"You can't get around what's right, though," he said. "When we stop loving them, that's when they win."
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equality
love
peace
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John Howard Griffin |
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"Make peace with others. The only thing you can change about the past is the damage you may have done to relationships. You may need to make amends with some people and say sorry. Sometimes it feels like we have unfinished business if we leave something in a state of tension. Break the ice, admit you were wrong, and then you and the other person can let go of any bitterness and move on. Sometimes God won't let us rest with ourselves and be at peace unless we take care of certain things. The Bible says in Matthew 5, "Therefore if you are presenting your offering at the altar, and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your offering there before the altar and go; first be reconciled to your brother, and then come and present your offering." Another good verse that is related to this is in Mark 11, "Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father who is in heaven will also forgive you your transgressions. But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father who is in heaven forgive your transgressions." So we need to forgive others and we need to ask for their forgiveness if we have done them wrong. When Jesus was asked how many times we have to forgive others He said 70 times 7, as in, countless times. Joyce Meyer says, "Do yourself a favor and forgive," because you will never truly have peace until you forgive everyone and anyone who has done you wrong. Amen."
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joy
jesus
god
love
holy-spirit
peace
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Lisa Bedrick |
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6cc990b
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Acceptance of what is. That is the shortest path to peace with yourself.
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inner-peace
peace
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Robin Hobb |
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It was for me a moment of great peace. I did not know then that it was the last, the very last moment of peace, the end of the old innocent world, the final moment before I was plunged into the nightmare of which these ensuing pages tell the story.
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narrator
iris-murdoch
peace
nightmare
foreshadowing
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Iris Murdoch |
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209a32c
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Nothing will bring me peace except revenge.
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revenge
the-green-knight
peace
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Iris Murdoch |
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...somehow, the very errors and faults of one individual served to call out the higher excellencies in another, and so they re-acted upon each other, and the result of short discords was exceeding harmony and peace.
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familial-love
faults
human-failing
harmony
peace
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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9fb819b
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I was cursing and swearing at you because of that address, I hated you already because of the lies I had told you. Because I only like playing with words, only dreaming, but, do you know, what I really want is that you should all go to hell. That is what I want. I want peace; yes, I'd sell the whole world for a farthing, straight off, so long as I was left in peace. Is the world to go to pot, or am I to go without my tea? I say that the world may go to pot for me so long as I always get my tea.
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tea
peace
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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faff9ee
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"That's what we're all looking for. A certain peace with the idea of dying. If we know, in the end, that we can ultimately have that peace with dying, then we can finally do the really hard thing." Which is? "Make peace with living."
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living
peace
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Mitch Albom |
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I believe that this is the time to become warriors for peace and dialogue, not warmongers or mere worriers.
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profound
wisdom
peace
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Lama Surya Das |
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9abba4b
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In democracies where the citizens may read, hear or say what they like, the leaders are no better and no worse than the followers. So perhaps, if we cannot blame the leaders because the job of peacemaking is a sorry mess, we can only blame ourselves.
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leadership
peacemaking
leaders
peace
democracy
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Martha Gellhorn |
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"Not town can live peacefully, whatever its laws," Plato wrote, "when its citizens ... do nothing but feast and drink and tire themselves out in the cares of love." But is it such a bad thing to live like this for just a little while? Just for a few months of one's life, is it so awful to travel through time with no greater ambition than to find the next lovely meal? Or to learn how to speak a language for no higher purpose than that it pleases your ear to hear it? Or to nap in a garden, in a patch of sunlight, in the middle of the day, right next to your favorite fountain? And then to do it again the next day?"
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travel
peace
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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"He gave us taste buds, then filled the world with incredible flavors like chocolate and cinnamon and all the other spices. He gave us eyes to perceive color and then filled the world with a rainbow of shades. He gave us sensitive ears and then filled the world with rhythms and music. Your capacity for enjoyment is evidence of God's love for you. He could have made the world tasteless, colorless, and silent. The Bible says that God "richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment." He didn't have to do it, but he did, because He loves us."
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worth
joy
christianity
jesus
religion
god
love
inspirational
worthy
christmas
gift
holiday
purpose
peace
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Rick Warren |
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It is always easier to promote war than peace, easier to end the peace than end the war, because peace is fragile and war is durable.
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war
peace
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Mark Kurlansky |
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"Cook another feast,' Bruenor grumbled. 'Suren the elf has his eye fixed on another wedding." Drizzt let it go at that. Maybe there was a ring of truth in Bruenor's words for some distant date. No longer did Drizzt limit his hopes and desires. He would see the world as he could and draw his choices from his wishes, not from limitations he might impose upon himself. For now, though, Drizzt had found something too personal to be shared. For the first time in his life, the drow had found peace."
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love
peace
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R.A. Salvatore |
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"Dan Berrigan wrote a "Meditation" at the time of the Catonsville incident: Our apologies good friends for the fracture of good order, the burning of paper instead of children, the angering of the orderlies in the front parlor of the charnel house. We could not, so help us God, do otherwise. . . . We say: killing is disorder, life and gentleness and community and unselfishness is the only order we recognize. for the sake of that order, we risk our liberty, our good name. The time is past when good men can remain silent, when obedience can segregate men form public risk, when the poor can die without defense."
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poor
peace
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Howard Zinn |
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d1f269d
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Everything is linked,' said an enraptured Baremboim on stage; 'everyone is linked, all our actions have ramifications, and music is a teacher of this interconnected reality.' There was, however, in the letter a mundane, prosaic footnote that nibbled at the very edges of possible understanding, since understanding must always be preceded by human curiosity. Perhaps it will vanish in the charged space between one suicide bomber and the next military bulldozer that buries human beings alive within the imagined security of their own homes; perhaps it will join other shards of recollected moments of curiosity and discovery, to weld into a vessel of receptivity and response.
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understanding
music
peace
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Wole Soyinka |
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f2d4e99
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"During his time with the French army, years before, one of the sergeants had explained to the younger mercenaries the trick of falling asleep the night before a battle. "Make yourself comfortable, examine your conscience, and make a good Act of Contrition. Father Hugo says that in time of war, even if there is no priest to shrive you, your sins can be forgiven this way. Since you cannot commit sins while asleep--not even you, Simenon!--you will awake in a state of grace, ready to fall on the bastards. And with nothing to look forward to but victory or heaven-- how can you be afraid."
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sleep
grace
peace
sin
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Diana Gabaldon |
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One thought ever at the fore-- That in the Divine Ship, the World, breasting Time and Space, All Peoples of the globe together sail, sail the same voyage, are bound to the same destination. I see Freedom, completely arm'd and victorious and very haughty, with Law on one side and Peace on the other, A stupendous trio all issuing forth against the idea of caste; What historic denouements are these we so rapidly approach?
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history
people
global
law
peace
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Kim Stanley Robinson |
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bd09341
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You make peace with one sister only to declare war on the other. It's always like that with peace, isn't it? Always to someone's detriment, already sowing the seed for the next war.
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fairy-tales
war
young-adult
fantasy
war-and-peace
portal-fantasy
young-adult-fantasy
peace
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Cornelia Funke |
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1765823
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A true king never robs his people of peace.
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peace
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Evangeline Walton |
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f74874d
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Buddhism spreads by people converting out of their own wish for peace and right action. But power condenses around those willing to use force.
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war
religion
peace
power
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Kim Stanley Robinson |
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54a401d
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Most men find [peace] entirely unlike what they had expected - like love...
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life
love
peace
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Patrick O'Brian |
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73b9694
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Los buenos actos resuenan a nuestro paso, mucho tiempo despues de que hayamos olvidado haberlos realizado.
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commonwealth
peace
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Sena Jeter Naslund |
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574d693
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"It's funny, isn't it," Miss Woolf whispered in Ursula's ear, "how much German music we listen to. Great beauty transcends all. Perhaps after the war it will heal all too." --
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war
music
healing
peace
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Kate Atkinson |
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They spoke then, with the dear and ordinary intimacy of the well-married in the eye of a storm. [369]
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marriage
peace
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Mary Doria Russell |
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I regretted my human form briefly; it would be so much easier to drag and rope information into the brain as neatly as one dragged and dropped information on the computer. Perhaps I was suffering from a touch of information sickness? If I could weed out my thoughts...There was one reliable cure I've found, a bit of the hair of the dog--the release in reading. Not a manual: something with a narrative, a chute built by a writer and waxed until the reader fell into it and skittered right to the end without stopping. The relief of being in someone else's hands. Yes, exactly: I needed to be under a spell....it didn't matter who I was, or what I did, or where I paid taxes, or how long I stayed. I'm sure it didn't matter if the book had RFID tags or a checkout card with a ladder of scrawled names, though tags were neat. I knew the librarians would help me figure out anything I needed to know later--I was under the librarians' protection. Civil servants and servants of civility, they had my back. They would be whatever they needed to be that day: information professionals, teachers, police, community organizers, computer technicians, historians, confidantes, clerks, social workers, storytellers, or in this case, guardians of my peace. They were the authors of this opportunity--diversion from the economy and distraction from snow, protectors of the bubble of concentration I'd found in the maddening world. And I knew they wouldn't disturb me until closing time.
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reading
peace
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Marilyn Johnson |
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27cb21a
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Hate's not functional; why are we taught it?
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violence
hate
education
science-fiction
peace
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Ursula K. Le Guin |
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cc3ce8c
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Odo said it all her life. 'Only peace brings peace, only just acts bring justice!
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peace
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Ursula K. Le Guin |
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a6112a0
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We have earned our peace. It is, by now, more precious than honor, or even pity.
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rest
peace
reward
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David Brin |
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9784ebe
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"Sadly, many people don't make it through the storms of life. Or they give up or they start doing and saying foolish things and abort the journey altogether.It is easy to begin, but God is looking for people who will finish.
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joy
spirituality
strength
weathering-storms
peace
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Joyce Meyer |
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9d63c2f
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In the end he wore me down. Always asking. And the answer I give him is still the only one I have. What do I want? Peace. And it actually shut him up. He didn't niggle me about it. It was like he got it straight off. I don't just want quiet, neither. I want peace.
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philosophy
peace
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Tim Winton |
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9a5442b
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Respect for the environment, and respect for what was naturally occurring in nature: that was the bedrock of all original peoples. Harmony, coexistence, not conquest and conquer.
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inspirational-quotes
ecosystem
native-american-wisdom
harmony
peace
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L.A. Banks |
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5a6ffba
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The temptation is too strong for me. Oh, Lord! where is Thy peace that I believed in, in my childhood? - that I hear people speaking of now, as if it hushed up the troubles of life, and had not to be sought for - sought for, as with tears of blood! [-Jemima, chapter 26, pg. 275]
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temptation
troubles
peace
tears
longing
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Elizabeth Gaskell |