Famous Quotes

"Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance."

Maurice Maeterlinck on Peace

More quotes about Peace

• "When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace."

  Jimi Hendrix on Peace

• "An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind."

  Mahatma Gandhi on Peace

• "If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."

  Mother Teresa on Peace

• "I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word."

  Martin Luther King, Jr. on Peace

• "Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one."

  John Lennon on Peace

More quotes by Maurice Maeterlinck

• "We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them."

• "All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing."

• "At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past."

• "We possess only the happiness we are able to understand."

• "An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it."