„I have often found that mental patients who are given love, creativity, and community find the peace that they are reaching out for.“

„I have decided to denounce communism, though I love the Communists. I don't find it to be right to preach the gospel without denouncing communism.“

—  Richard Wurmbrand Romanian Christian minister of Jewish descent 1909 - 2001

p. 75.
Tortured For Christ (1967)

„Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.“

—  Leo Buscaglia Motivational speaker, writer 1924 - 1998

„Preparing for my address I found in an old Russian encyclopedia a definition of "peace" as a "commune" — the traditional cell of Russian peasant life.“

—  Mikhail Gorbachev General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union 1931

Nobel Address (1991)
Kontext: Preparing for my address I found in an old Russian encyclopedia a definition of "peace" as a "commune" — the traditional cell of Russian peasant life. I saw in that definition the people's profound understanding of peace as harmony, concord, mutual help, and cooperation.
This understanding is embodied in the canons of world religions and in the works of philosophers from antiquity to our time.

„Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body.“

—  Elisabeth Kübler-Ross American psychiatrist 1926 - 2004

On Death and Dying (1969)

„In love we find out who we want to be, in war we find out who we are.“

—  Kristin Hannah, buch The Nightingale

Quelle: The Nightingale

„Those who preach god, need god
Those who preach peace do not have peace
Those who preach love do not have love“

—  Charles Bukowski, The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966

Quelle: The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966

„People love talking, and I have never been a huge talker. I carry on an inner monologue, but the words often don't reach my lips.“

—  Gillian Flynn, buch Gone Girl – Das perfekte Opfer

Quelle: Gone Girl

„The concept of guilt is found most powerfully developed even in the most primitive communal forms which we know: … the man is guilty who violates one of the original laws which dominate the society and which are mostly derived from a divine founder; the boy who is accepted into the tribal community and learns its laws, which bind him thenceforth, learns to promise; this promise is often given under the sign of death, which is symbolically carried out on the boy, with a symbolical rebirth.“

—  Martin Buber German Jewish Existentialist philosopher and theologian 1878 - 1965

p. 178
Between Man and Man (1965)

„I have been "in denial" for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light.“

—  Christopher Hitchens British American author and journalist 1949 - 2011

I.
2010s, 2011, Mortality (2012)

„Have you found someone to share your heart with? Are you giving to your community? Are you at peace with yourself? Are you trying to be as human as you can be?“

—  Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie

Quelle: Tuesdays with Morrie

„I find myself wondering why—out of all the people in all the world I could ever have loved—I had to fall in love with someone who was taken away from me.“

—  Nicholas Sparks, buch Message in a Bottle

Quelle: Message in a Bottle

„Civilizations founded upon polygamy have always given way to those founded upon monogamy. Polygamy weakens men and diminishes the charm of the community in which it is practiced; and in any case it is foreign to the tastes and requirements of our modern women.“

—  André Maurois French writer 1885 - 1967

Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939), The Art of Marriage

„The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. And that's what you've given me. That's what I'd hoped to give you forever“

—  Nicholas Sparks American writer and novelist 1965

„I found out Scott (Brown) is anti-union and I’m a Teamster guy. I found out he’s also against gay marriage, and I say if you love someone, you should have the same rights no matter who you are.“

—  Micky Ward

Reported in Glen Johnson, Globe Staff, Report: Boxer Micky Ward cancels planned endorsement of Scott Brown, Boston.com, 31-8-2012

„Other arms reach out to me
Other eyes smile tenderly
Still in peaceful dreams I see
The road leads back to you.
Georgia, oh Georgia, no peace I find…
Just an old sweet song
Keeps Georgia on my mind.“

—  Ray Charles American musician 1930 - 2004

Though renditions by Ray Charles are among the most popular and famous, the lyrics of "Georgia On My Mind" (1930) were written by Stuart Gorrell and the music by Hoagy Carmichael.
Misattributed

„I have so many friends who hate their jobs and man, it's such a struggle trying to find what they love or what they dream of. I feel so lucky that I found what I love and my dreams have started to come true.“

—  Taryn Manning American actor, musician and fashion designer 1978

Interview, Pop-Rock Candy Mountain (2008-06-11)

„Love … It’s a nice little trick if you can find it.

We had found it.

But now I knew finding love and holding on to it were not the same thing.“

—  Mary E. Pearson, The Beauty of Darkness

Quelle: The Beauty of Darkness

„The person who loves their dream of community will destroy community, but the person who loves those around them will create community.“

—  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

Quelle: Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

„Peace is for the purification of one's mind. Power is for the growth of the community. Having established the community with power, one should then establish supreme peace.“

—  Ramana Maharshi Indian religious leader 1879 - 1950

Sri Ramana Gita