Peaceful Thinking Quotes

When you're imagining peace, you can't kill anyone. That's good isn't it?

Death doesn't frighten me; now I can think peacefully of ending a long life.

To have a mind full of peace, merely fill it full of peace. It's as simple as that.

To the American People: Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind. To cherish peace and good will, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas. If we think on these things, there will be born in us a Savior and over us will shine a star sending its gleam of hope to the world." ~ Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933), American president. Presidential message (December 25, 1927).

It struck me that the popularity of Christmas is a matter of web-like consciousness. Childhood conditions us to relax and expand at Christmas, to forget petty worries and irritations and think in terms of universal peace. And so Christmas is the nearest to mystical experience that most human beings ever approach, with its memories of Dickens and Irving's Bracebridge Hall.

All our rulers have said that war is unthinkable, and then we think about it almost all the time. We've got to make it unthinkable.

There is no scientific antidote, only education. You've got to change the way people think. I am not interested in disarmament talks between nations . . . What I want to do is to disarm the mind. After that, everything else will automatically follow. The ultimate weapon for such mental disarmament is international education.

An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.

Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war, but on the love of peace. It will not be the abstaining from an act, but the coming of a state of mind.

Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind.

In quiet places, reason abounds.

Don't fight fearful thoughts. Just match each one with an alternative thought that brings you more peace.