"Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence."
-Dorothy Thompson
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"Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.“
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"Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live."
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"Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy."
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"The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld."
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"Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy."
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"I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I'm out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
-Marilyn Monroe
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"As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other."
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"I used to wonder if it was God's plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world."
-Lana Del Rey
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"If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else."
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"Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace."
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