River Phoenix Quotes

Become an ambassador of peace in your own life.

As much as I think I've inspired people in the world, I'd like to be more involved bringing about world peace.

The question of real, lasting world peace concerns human beings, so basic human feelings are also at its roots. Through inner peace, genuine world peace can be achieved. In this the importance of individual responsibility is quite clear; an atmosphere of peace must first be created within ourselves, then gradually expanded to include our families, our communities, and ultimately the whole planet.

It is not our business to collect trophies but to try … [to] bring back the world to peaceful habits

All of us can work for peace. We can work right where we are, right within ourselves, because the more peace we have within our own lives, the more we can reflect into the outer situation.

The Dalai Lama says don't pray for peace, don't wait for peace, don't talk about peace - do it right now.

What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.

Peace does not come through prayer, we human beings must create peace.

Without inner peace, outer peace is impossible. We all wish for world peace, but world peace will never be acheived unless we first establish peace within our own minds. We can send so-called 'peacekeeping forces' into areas of conflict, but peace cannot be oppossed from the outside with guns. Only by creating peace within our own mind and helping others to do the same can we hope to achieve peace in this world.

Peace is always possible but we have to seek it. Let us pray for peace.

When I pray for peace, I pray not only that the enemies of my own country may cease to want war, but above all that my country will cease to do the things that make war inevitable.

We will have to want peace, want it enough to pay for it, before it becomes an accepted rule.

The biggest difference would be made if we don't have wars to begin with.

I believe that for peace a man may, even should, do everything in his power. Nothing in this world could rank higher than peace.

Nobody's ever tried the peace thing, ... We are selling it like soap.

Peace in the world starts with peace in oneself. If everyone lives mindfully, everyone will be more healthy, feel more fulfilled in their daily lives and there will be more peace.

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 be in our troubled world.

I can't on my own change the regime in South Africa or teach the Palestinians to learn to live with the Israelies, but I can start with me.

The mere assemblage of peace loving people to interchange convincing reasons for their common faith, mere exhortation and argument to the public in favor of peace in general fall short of the mark.

My new hotels will play a leading role in promoting world peace.

If the inner world is inundated with peace, then the nightmare of world war cannot even come into being.

We can change the world, but not improve it, if we do not have peace.

If one seeks to analyze experiences and reactions to the first postwar years, I hope one may say without being accused of bias that it is easier for the victor than for the vanquished to advocate peace.

It is by such means as the prize offered by your Committee that the attention of the world will be focused and that men and women will be inspired to greater efforts in the interest of peace.

Jesus said, 'Blessed are the peacemakers.' And I think a lot of people don't understand that there's a difference between a peace lover and a peacemaker. Everybody loves peace, but wearing jewelry around your neck and saying 'I love peace' doesn't bring it.