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"Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives."

Saint Teresa of Avila 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 Saint Teresa of Avila

• "To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that."

• "To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience."

• "I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him."

• "For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God."

• "We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us."