World Peace Day 2017

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1.       “If you want to end the war then Instead of sending guns, send books. Instead of sending tanks, send pens. Instead of sending soldiers, send teachers.” - Malala Yousafzai


2.       “Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.”
― Maria Montessori


3.       “We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.” - Dwight D. Eisenhower


4.       “There is a LIGHT in this world. A healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter. We sometime lose sight of this force when there is suffering, and too much pain. Then suddenly, the spirit will emerge through the lives of ordinary people who hear a call and answer in extraordinary ways.” - Richard Attenborough


5.       “To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness” - Robert Muller


6.       “What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.” - Pericles


7.       “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” - Margaret Mead


8.       “There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.” - Edith Wharton


9.       “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” - Mark Twain


10.   “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” - Martin Luther King Jr.


11.   “Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it towards others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will also be in our troubled world.” - Etty Hillesum


12.   “Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson


13.   “Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.”
― Thomas Merton


14.   “To see a world in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour.” - William Blake



15.   “The heart that breaks open can contain the whole universe.” - Joanna Macy



16.   “My hope and wish is that one day, formal education will pay attention to what I call “education of the heart.” Just as we take for granted the need to acquire proficiency in the basic academic subjects, I am hopeful that a time will come when we can take it for granted that children will learn, as part of the curriculum, the indispensability of inner values: love, compassion, justice, and forgiveness.” - Dalai Lama



17.   “The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.”
― Marianne Williamson



18.   A quiet conscience makes one strong!”
― Anne Frank



19.   “There is peace even in the storm”
― Vincent van Gogh



20.   “To understand the immeasurable, the mind must be extraordinarily quiet, still.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti



21.   “Leadership is all about the release of human possibilities. . .the capacity to inspire is communicating to people that you believe they matter, that you know they have something important to give.” - Joseph Jaworski



22.   “It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.” - Eleanor Roosevelt


23.   “Peace begins with a smile..”
― Mother Teresa


24.   “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about.”
― Jalaluddin Rumi


25.   “You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.”
― William Wilberforce


"Peace is a state of mind
It is within our own self
We must identify it, understand it and share it with the rest of the world to prevent wars."
- Giuseppe Loporchio




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