Eckhart Tolle Quotes

No peace is impossible when people are determined to achieve it

There is no public out there who needs to change. It's each one of us.

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

On this International Day of Peace, let us dare to imagine a world free of conflict and violence

If it is peace you want, seek to change yourself, not other people. It is easier to protect your feet with slippers than to carpet the whole of the earth.

I don't have much time for real violence at all. I think there are infinitely better ways of changing the world than using violence. Sitting round a table talking is a pretty good start.

If we do not like what we see in the world, we must face what we don't like in ourselves. As we change, the world will change with us.

Become an ambassador of peace in your own life.

No achievement can be higher than that of working in harmony with other nations so that the lash of war may be lifted from our backs and a peace of lasting friendship descend upon us.

I hold that the world is sick of armed rebellions.

To have world peace, we all have to have a healthy understanding of what is necessary to bring World Peace. It's not something that will be dropped on our laps. We have to work for it. Until we get World Peace, I think my strongest passion stays in the effort to get it.

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

Why can't people live with each other in peace? Why must everything be destroyed? Why must people go hungry while surplus food elsewhere in the world rots away? Oh why must people be so crazy?

Only when an ideal of peace is born in the minds of the peoples will the institutions set up to maintain this peace effectively fulfill the function expected of them.

I kind of help solve world peace and world hunger. That's just kind of an average day off for me.

...Stop blaming me, thinking I'm the problem. If you think I'm the problem, then you have to change me. If you realize that you're the problem, then you can change yourself, learn something and grow wiser. Most people want everyone else in the world to change themselves. Let me tell you, it's easier to change yourself than everyone else.

When all is said and done, and statesmen discuss the future of the world, the fact remains that people fight these wars.

When you do something for world peace, peace among groups, peace among individuals, or your own inner peace, you improve the total peace picture.

The most difficult matter is not so much to change the world as yourself.

Consider those whom you call your enemies and figure out what they should call you.

If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.

The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinction.

It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily.

When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?

I can predict with absolute certainty that within another generation there will be another world war if the nations of the world do not concert the method by which to prevent it.