The International Day of Peace is observed on September 21st every year. The day calls for a full day of peace and ceasefire throughout the world. Peace is the result of re-training your mind to process life as it is rather than you think it should be. Alber Einstine said, “Peace cannot be kept by force, and it can only be achieved by understanding.” There is no path to peace, peace is the path. In the 21st century, striving towards development (self) –we have actually have become selfish and have eventually forgot how to live peacefully. Striving to be number one, we often forget humanity. We sometime, intentionally and unintentionally hurt people just for our own benefits. We have lost peace in the world. Peace is a much needed practice that the world must follow. Today, on the International Peace Day 2016, let us all pledge to promote and peace at our very own level.
Let us learn more with these deep thoughts and quotes said by some very famous people around the world, that today’s world need to adapt:
1. “Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.” –John F. Kennedy
2. “If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.” – Nelson Mandela
3. “Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.” –Albert Einstein
4. “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” –Martin Luther King, Jr.
5. “If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.” –Winston Churchill
6. “There is a higher court than courts of justice, and that is the court of conscience. It supersedes all other courts.” –Mahatma Gandhi
7. “Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.”– Buddha
8. “If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”– Mother Teresa
9. “We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.” – William Ewart Gladstone
10. “Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us, and the world will be as one” – John Lennon
