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If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

We each need to make peace with our own memories. We have all done things that make us flinch.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

If we die without making peace with God through His precious blood which was shed for us on the cross surely we shall end up in hellfire.

Everything depends on the Americans. If they want to make war for 20 years then we shall make war for 20 years. If they want to make peace, we shall make peace and invite them to tea afterwards.

If there is no peace in the minds of individuals, how can there be peace in the world? Make peace in your own mind first.

Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

Being more mature now, I’ve managed to make peace with my past, as it’s making peace with me. Certainly there’s a mutual gain for reflecting on both phases of my life, and although I consider the here and now perhaps to be more important, there are still many people who appreciate my past ephemeral stages and the lessons they represent.

Feelings of guilt dominate our work as peacemakers we cannot last long. But when we have opened each other’s eyes to the great human gifts among all people we can indeed make peacemaking a way of being.

One not need make peace with friends, only with enemies

Peace is not something you wish for, it’s something you make.

I just always have to cry out a breakup, and then I can make peace with it pretty quickly.

He who does not desire much more from things than knowledge of them easily makes peace with his soul.

Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought; what we think we become.

Make peace with your body, it’s not manmade, there are no flaws, there are no mistakes.

Each side has legitimate aspirations – and that’s part of what makes peace so hard. And the deadlock will only be broken when each side learns to stand in the other’s shoes; each side can see the world through the other’s eyes. That’s what we should be encouraging. That’s what we should be promoting.

The peacemakers shall be called the sons of God, who came to make peace between God and man. What then shall the sowers of discord be called, but the children of the devil? And what must they look for but their father’s portion?

The greatest temptation for the like of us is: to renounce violence, to repent, to make peace with oneself. Most revolutionaries fell before this temptation, from Spartacus to Danton and Dostoevsky; they are the classical form of betrayal of the cause. The temptations of God were always more dangerous for mankind than those of Satan. As long as chaos dominates the world, God is an anachronism; and every compromise with one’s own conscience is perfidy. When the accursed inner voice speaks to you, hold your hands over your ears….

The sleeping tortoise takes all its limbs into its carapace. So does the yogi: going back into himself he does not see anything worldly any longer, he makes peace in himself.

You make PEACE with your past by owning your PIECE of the past.

Looking for peace is like looking for a turtle with a mustache: You won’t be able to find it. But when your heart is ready, peace will come looking for you.

You can make peace with an enemy, if the enemy abandons the idea of destroying you. That is the critical test. Democracies fail to understand what I just said.

Israel can make peace with an organization that seeks its destruction. That’s Hamas. But Israel can make peace with the Palestinian Authority. It requires a lot of courage from both sides including President Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority.

To make peace, one must be an uncompromising leader. To make peace, one must also embody compromise.

Although wrongs have been done to me, I live in hopes. I have not got two hearts….Now we are together again to make peace. My shame is as big as the earth, although I will do what my friends have advised me to do. I once thought that I was the only man that persevered to be the friend of the white man, but since they have come and cleaned out our lodges, horses and everything else, it is hard for me to believe the white men any more.

Peace cannot come without the engagement of those who have been before. Gen. Dostum will make peace possible. He was engaged in conflict of the past. Forgiveness is an extremely important part of our culture. But, like Rwanda and South Africa, we need to fashion our own solution.

The message of Christmas is not that we can make peace. Or that we can make love, make light, make gifts, or make this world save itself. The message of Christmas is that this world’s a mess and we can never save ourselves from ourselves and we need a Messiah.

If you’re an actor, you have to find a way to make peace with all the media attention.

Is America becoming decadent? Do we no longer regard our promises and pledges as sacred? … We promised to make peace with Germany only in conjunction with the Allies; but we brought forward a separate peace, demanding for ourselves all the advantages of the Treaty of Versailles but rejecting all the responsibilities embodied in the Treaty. It was America’s President who induced Europe to form a League of Nations; and then America was the first country that refused to joint it…. If these are not the symptoms of national decadency, what are they?

On this International Day, let us promise to make peace not just a priority, but a passion. Let us pledge to do more, wherever we are in whatever way we can, to make every day a day of peace.

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives… inside ourselves.

We make war that we may live in peace.

Make peace with the fear of defeat… Fear holds you back from putting forth your best performance.

Every time an Arab leader truly wanted peace, they got it. If the Palestinians truly want peace, we will make peace.