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Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifi

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience. – Thomas Merton

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Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward. – Thomas Merton

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We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God. – Thomas Merton

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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life. – Thomas Merton

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In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding. – Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

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I said it was my feeling that the American people would struggle for peace, and that has since been underscored by the President of these United States. – Paul Robeson

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We will not have peace by afterthought. – Norman Cousins

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You have to make peace with yourself. The key is to find the harmony in what you have. – Naomi Watts

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