Quotes on Peace and Healing
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“The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.” |
-Marriane Williamson |
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"I have true peace now, because I have allowed my faith to overturn the questions of my heart, rather than letting the questions of my heart overturn my faith." |
-Kristi Cancellieri |
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"When we feel love and kindness towards others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace." |
-The Dalai Lama |
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"If there is light in the soul, there will be beauty in the person. If there is beauty in the person, there will be harmony in the house. If there is harmony in the house, there will be order in the nation. If there is order in the nation, there will be peace in the world." |
-Chinese Proverb |
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"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools." |
-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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"Only if you've been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain." |
- Richard Nixon |
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"Never regret anything you have been through, because only with those trials will you become a better person the next day." |
-Crystal Hunt |
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"Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength." |
- Unknown |
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"As soon as one forgives oneself, it is like taking away a bandage that covered one's eyes. When the bandage is gone, then one can see that the ones that love us have already forgiven us long ago and are still there loving us." |
- Juan Cavallo |
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"If you wish to heal your own sadness or anger, seek to heal the sadness or anger of another. Those others are waiting for you now. They are looking to you for guidance, for help, for courage, for strength, for understanding, and for assurance at this hour. Most of all, they are looking to you for love. My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness." |
- The Dalai Lama |
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"The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely, or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature, and God. As long as such a place exists, and it certainly always will, I know that then there will always be comfort for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be. And I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles." |
- Anne Frank |
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"Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding." |
- Albert Einstein |
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"Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn't you - all of the expectations, all of the beliefs - and becoming who you are." |
- Rachel Naomi Remen |
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"In Your name, there is mercy from sin, there is safety within--in Your holy name. In Your name, there is strength to remain, to stand in spite of pain--in Your holy name." |
- Excerpt from "Your Name is Holy", a great new song at the 5:45 at First Presbyterian Church of Berkeley |
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"To place faith in something other than one's self requires an element of courage; yet those who have put it in God can testify that even greater courage--along with peace of mind--is to be found in doing so." |
- Unknown |
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"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it." |
- Helen Keller |
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"Forgiving is not something you do for someone else. It is something you do for yourself. An unforgiven injury binds you to a time and place someone else has chosen; it holds you trapped in a past moment and in old feelings." |
- Carol Luebering |
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"We've got it backwards. It's not that we need to forgive in order to heal. It's that we need to heal in order to forgive." |
- Margot Silk Forrest |
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"Nature has been for me, as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion." |
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"Nothing can bring you peace but yourself." |
- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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"When the earth is sick and polluted, human health is impossible.... To heal ourselves we must heal our planet, and to heal our planet we must heal ourselves." |
- Bobby McLeod |
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