Peace for the Soul

A common space for harmonic peacemakers

The Black Day 911 9-11 (September 11th 2001)

A small sorrow distracts; a great one makes us collected. ~ Richter

May they who love you be like the sun when it rises in its strength. - Judges 5:31
May they all rest in peace and may we continue to remember what happened on that dark day...

No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it. ~ Aristotle

O wise man, wash your hands of that friend who associates with your enemies. ~ Saadi

When our hatred is violent, it sinks us even beneath those we hate. ~ Rochfoucauld

We may be as good as we please, if we please to be good. ~ Barrow

Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water. ~ Shakespeare

It is the coward who fawns on those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so. ~ Junius

No man is free who is not master of himself. ~ Epictetus

The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms. ~ Amiel

How can such deep-imprinted images sleep in us at times, till a word, a sound, awaken them? ~ Lessing

If a man take no thought at what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand. ~ Confucius

Of joys departed, not to return, how painful the remembrance. ~ Robert Blair

The heros of mankind are the mountains, the highlands of the moral world. ~ A.P. Stanley

The ultimate tendency of civilization is toward barbarism ~ Hare

Difficulties show men what they are.
In case of any difficulty God has pitted you against
a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror,
and this cannot be without toil. ~ Epictetus

I am a man, and whatever concerns humanity is of interest to me. ~ Terence

Let us all be silent that we may hear the whispers of the gods. ~ Emerson

I do love these ancient ruins. We never tread upon them but we set our foot upon some reverend history. ~ John Webster

Hateful is the power, and pitiable is the life, of those who wish to be feared rather than to be loved. ~ Cornelius Nepos

O snap the fife and still the drums and show the monster as she is. ~ Richard Le Gallienne

He who puts up with insult invites injury. ~ Proverb

The block of granite which is an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong. ~ Carlyle

The winter of our discontent. ~ Shakespeare

All my possessions for a moment of time. ~ Last words of Queen Elizabeth

Men who have nice notions of religion have no business being soldiers. ~ Wellington

Contact with the world either breaks or hardens the heart. ~ Chamfort

Heaven to me's a fair blue stretch of sky, earth's jest a dusty road. ~ John Masefield

Hatred is the madness of the heart. ~ Byron

Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home. ~ Payne

The noontide sun is dark, and music discord, when the heart is low. ~ Young

He comes, the herald of a noisy world, news from all nations lumbering at his back;
a messenger of grief to thousands, and a joy to some. ~ Cowper

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. ~ Jefferson

Ah! What a sign it is of evil life, when death's approach is seen so terrible! ~ Shakespeare

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope; he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope. ~ Carlyle

That which God writes on thy forehead, thou wilt come to it. ~ Koran

Hell is but the collected ruins of the moral world, and sin is the principle that has made them. ~ Marlowe

Ill blows the wind that profits nobody. ~ Shakespeare

Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults. ~ Antisthenes

Justice, like lightning, ever should appear to few men's ruin, but to all men's fear. ~ Sweetman

Time is the great comforter of grief, but the agency by which it works is exhaustion. ~ L.E. Landon

The heart Bowed down by weight of woe to weakest hope will cling. ~ Alfred Bunn

In the huge mass of evil as it rolls and swells, there is ever some good working toward deliverance and triumph. ~ Carlyle

Violent delights have violent ends. ~ Shakespeare

Strength is born in the deep silence of suffering hearts; not amidst joy. ~ Mrs. Hermans

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed. ~ Swift

They that know no evil will suspect none. ~ Ben Johnson

There is a remembrance of the dead, to which we turn even from the charms of the living.
These we would not exchange for the song of pleasure or the bursts of revelry. ~ Washington Irving

I consider the soul of man as the ruins of a glorious pile of buildings; where, amidst great heaps of rubbish, you
meet with noble fragments of sculpture, broken pillars and obelisks, and a magnificence in confusion. ~ Steele

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Comment by Béatrice LATEUR LACROIX on September 13, 2010 at 10:29am
May all the souls be in Peace.
Love and Peace for all Beings.

Comment by Qais M. Yousef on September 13, 2010 at 6:48am
God bless their souls !
Comment by Imelda Maguire on September 12, 2010 at 1:02am
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~*LOVE ALWAYS*~
Comment by Patricia L Allen on September 11, 2010 at 9:52pm
thank you

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"PEACE
NOT WAR
GENEROSITY
NOT GREED
EMPATHY
NOT HATE
CREATIVITY
NOT DESTRUCTION
EVERYBODY
NOT JUST US"

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