Rick Stromoski from 2004.

THÍCH NHẤT HẠNH

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If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

NĀGĀRJUNA
Mūlamadhyamakakārikā (Fundamental Verses on the Middle Way)

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The pacification of all cognitive grasping and
The pacification of conceptual proliferation
Are peace.

CARL SANDBURG
"Monotone"

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    The monotone of the rain is beautiful,
And the sudden rise and slow relapse
Of the long multitudinous rain.

    The sun on the hills is beautiful,
Or a captured sunset sea-flung,
Bannered with fire and gold.

    A face I know is beautiful—
With fire and gold of sky and sea,
And the peace of long warm rain.

ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

For it isn’t enough to talk of peace. One must believe it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Columbia student flashes the peace sign after being beaten by riot police at an antiwar demonstration, April 1968.

JOHN KEATS - “Sonnet on Peace”

O Peace! and dost thou with thy presence bless
The dwellings of this war-surrounded Isle;
Soothing with placid brow our late distress,
Making the triple kingdom brightly smile?
Joyful I hail thy presence; and I hail
The sweet companions that await on thee;
Complete my joy let not my first wish fail,
Let the sweet mountain nymph thy favourite be,
With England’s happiness proclaim Europa’s Liberty.
O Europe! let not sceptred tyrants see
That thou must shelter in thy former state;
Keep thy chains burst, and boldly say thou art free;
Give thy kings law leave not uncurbed the great ;

So with the horrors past thou’lt win thy happier fate!