33 Peace-Inspiring Quotes

In a world that often feels chaotic and overwhelming, finding moments of peace can be a true gift. Whether you're navigating personal challenges or simply seeking a bit of tranquility, the power of inspiring quotes shouldn't be underestimated. Words have the ability to soothe, uplift, and provide a gentle reminder of the calm that lies within us all. In this post, we've carefully curated a collection of the top 33 peace-inspiring quotes. Each one is designed to help you pause, reflect, and embrace a sense of serenity in your day-to-day life. So take a deep breath, and let these quotes guide you towards a state of inner peace.

1. “Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.” - Albert Einstein

2. “You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.” - Eckhart Tolle

3. “For a day, just for one day,Talk about that which disturbs no oneAnd bring some peace into yourBeautiful eyes.” - شمس الدین محمد حافظ / Shams-al-Din Mohammad Hafez

4. “Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.” - George Carlin

5. “Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.” - Ronald Reagan

6. “A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.” - William Shakespeare

7. “Sometimes a strikeout means that the slugger’s girlfriend just ran off with the UPS driver. Sometimes a muffed ground ball means that the shortstop’s baby daughter has a pain in her head that won’t go away. And handicapping is for amateur golfers, not ballplayers. Pitchers don’t ease off on the cleanup hitter because of the lumps just discovered in his wife’s breast. Baseball is not life. It is a fiction, a metaphor. And a ballplayer is a man who agrees to uphold that metaphor as though lives were at stake. Perhaps they are. I cherish a theory I once heard propounded by G.Q. Durham that professional baseball is inherently antiwar. The most overlooked cause of war, his theory runs, is that it’s so damned interesting. It takes hard effort, skill, love and a little luck to make times of peace consistently interesting. About all it takes to make war interesting is a life. The appeal of trying to kill others without being killed yourself, according to Gale, is that it brings suspense, terror, honor, disgrace, rage, tragedy, treachery and occasionally even heroism within range of guys who, in times of peace, might lead lives of unmitigated blandness. But baseball, he says, is one activity that is able to generate suspense and excitement on a national scale, just like war. And baseball can only be played in peace. Hence G.Q.’s thesis that pro ball-players—little as some of them may want to hear it—are basically just a bunch of unusually well-coordinated guys working hard and artfully to prevent wars, by making peace more interesting.” - David James Duncan

8. “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.” - Leo Tolstoy

9. “It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.” - Aristotle

10. “Her maternal instinct told her Natasha had too much of something, and because of this she would not be happy” - Leo Tolstoy

11. “Price of peace could only be valued by people who had suffered loss in the war.” - Toba Beta

12. “Ya no va a dolerme el mar,porque conocí la fuente.” - Gilberto Owen

13. “Michael wasn't on the pool deck, which was hard for me. None of my old Coral Springs teammates were around. Still, that old plane of cement felt like home. I folded my clothes and put them on the bench. I placed my water bottle under my starting block, and I dove in. Once again, I felt that ultimate state of transition, my feet no longer on the ground, my hands not yet in the water.” - Dara Torres

14. “Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.” - Dalai Lama XIV

15. “But they can't know how the dark space inside me is growing. I lie to them. I can't get out of the dark hole. 'Peace is here' it whispers.” - Lurlene McDaniel

16. “Sex could be a blissful communion,. But it could also be a weapon, and its absence, sometimes, was required for the establishment of peace.” - Ann Brashares

17. “What's to be believed? Or does it matter at all? When mass murder's been answered with mass murder, rape with rape, hate with hate, there's no longer much meaning in asking whose ax is bloodier. Evil, on evil, piled on evil. Was there any justification for what they did—or was there? We only know what that thing says, and that thing is a captive. The Asian radio has to say what will least displease it's government; ours has to say what will least displease our fine patriotic opinionated rabble, which is what, coincidentally, the government wants it to say anyhow, so where's the difference?” - Walter M. Miller

18. “Listen to your hearts, parents! You are the expert when it comes to knowing your child. I love the Scripture that says we are to let the peace of God rule in our hearts...In other words, peace in your heart is to be like an umpire calling the shots. When in doubt--DON'T!” - Sherrie Eldridge

19. “Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.” - Dwight D. Eisenhower

20. “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 überhing jeden meiner Gedanken bei Tag und bei Nacht vielleicht liegt sein dunkler Umriß auch auf manchen Blättern 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.” - Stefan Zweig

21. “How goddamn foolish it is, the war. They's no war in the worth that's worth fightin' for. I don't care where it is. They can't tell me any different. Money, money is the thing that causes it all. I wouldn't be a bit surprised that the people that start wars and promote 'em are the men that make the money, make the ammunition, make the clothing and so forth. Just think of the poor kids that are starvin' to death in Asia and so forth that could be fed with how much you make one big shell of. ~Alvin "Tommy" Bridges” - Studs Terkel

22. “Every person needs to take one day away.  A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future.  Jobs, family, employers, and friends can exist one day without any one of us, and if our egos permit us to confess, they could exist eternally in our absence.  Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.  Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us.” - Maya Angelou

23. “I'm really a peaceful sort of coward.” - L.A. Meyer

24. “Prayer is vastly superior to worry. With worry, we are helpless; with prayer, we are interceding. When I hear sad news, I try to say a prayer for the victims. When I am troubled, I will say a prayer that asks for relief for myself and for all those who suffer as I do. When I am concerned about my relatives or friends I say a short prayer to myself - "May they be happy and free of suffering." Book: Seeking Peace: Chronicles of the Worst Buddist in the World” - MARY PIPHER PH.D.

25. “She walked forward, feeling the dew on the grass with each step. She tightened her eyes, welcoming the darkness.” - Eveli Acosta

26. “Peace beginsWhen expectation ends.” - Sri Chinmoy

27. “The words we choose to use when we communicate with each other, carry vibrations. The word ‘war’ carries a whole different vibration than the word ‘peace’. The words we use are showing how we think and how we feel. The careful selection of words, helps to elevate our consciousness and resonate in higher frequencies.” - Grigoris Deoudis

28. “Peace is a flawed logic. They believe that communication and understanding will create peace. However, just because you know and understand the nature of something or someone, does not mean that you will come to terms.” - Lionel Suggs

29. “And do you know another thing, Arthur? Life is too bitter already, without territories and wars and noble feuds.” - T.H. White

30. “Maybe it’s something which can’t be defined,” Enso Roshi says. “Maybe it’s a question, to be lived.” - T. Scott McLeod

31. “La paz es como el cristal: si se golpea repetidamente, termina mostrando su fragilidad.” - David Mitchell

32. “We must take the money out of politics, and end psychopathic, self-destructive government and corporate madness.” - Bryant McGill

33. “A persistent breeze lifted the thin curtains, fluttering a few moments of tranquility into the turbulent day.” - Susan Abulhawa