quotes on peace

A grandparent is old on the outside but young on the inside. ~Author Unknown



You cannot help but learn more as you take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is an old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it. ~John Updike



Few things are more delightful than grandchildren fighting over your lap. ~Doug Larson



Books are immortal sons deifying their sires. ~Plato



A bank book makes good reading - better than some novels. ~Harry Lauder



My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground upon which I stand. ~Thich Nhat Hanh



My theory is that the hardest work anyone does in life is to appear normal. ~From the movie Ed TV



Don't worry about avoiding temptation - as you grow older, it starts avoiding you. ~Author Unknown



If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason. ~Jack Handey



Ironically, rural America has become viewed by a growing number of Americans as having a higher quality of life not because of what it has, but rather because of what it does not have! ~Don A. Dillman



Life is a shit sandwich. But if you've got enough bread, you don't taste the shit. ~Jonathan Winters



A hug is the shortest distance between friends. ~Author Unknown A hug is two hearts wrapped in arms. ~Author Unknown



God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west... keeping the world in chains. If our nation took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts. ~Mahatma Gandhi



If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. ~Lord Byron



It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations. ~Walter Bagehot



Easy reading is damn hard writing. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne



Untold suffering seldom is. ~Franklin P. Jones



The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery



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There is in a man an upwelling spring of life, energy, love, whatever you like to call it. If a course is not cut for it, it turns the ground round it into a swamp. ~Mark Rutherford (William Hale White), More Pages from a Journal, 1910