Sarada Devi (1853–1920) Hindu religious figure, spiritual consort of Ramakrishna
[Swami Tapasyananda, Swami Nikhilananda, Sri Sarada Devi, the Holy Mother; Life and Conversations, 315]
Sarada Devi (1853–1920) Hindu religious figure, spiritual consort of Ramakrishna
[Swami Tapasyananda, Swami Nikhilananda, Sri Sarada Devi, the Holy Mother; Life and Conversations, 315]
“Peace, peace! Dost thou not see my baby at my breast, That sucks the nurse asleep?”
Cleopatra VII (-69–-30 BC) last active pharaoh of Ptolemaic Egypt
As quoted, Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare, Act V, scene ππ (1623)
“It is my conviction that there is no way to peace - peace is the way.”
Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist
Source: The Art of Power
“If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace”
Thomas Paine (1737–1809) English and American political activist
The Crisis No. I.
1770s, The American Crisis (1776–1783)
Context: I once felt all that kind of anger, which a man ought to feel, against the mean principles that are held by the Tories: a noted one, who kept a tavern at Amboy, was standing at his door], with as pretty a child in his hand, about eight or nine years old, as I ever saw, and after speaking his mind as freely as he thought was prudent, finished with this unfatherly expression, "Well! give me [[peace in my day."
Not a man lives on the continent but fully believes that a separation must some time or other finally take place, and a generous parent should have said, "If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace;" and this single reflection, well applied, is sufficient to awaken every man to duty.
“pg.9 "In my heart there's a peaceful anguish, and my calm is made of resignation.”
Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet
Source: The Book of Disquiet
George Rogers Clark (1752–1818) American general
Clark, Speech to the Indian Chiefs at Cahokia (1778) http://www.kdla.ky.gov/resources/KYGRClark.htm
“My goal is GOD HIMSELF. Not joy, not peace, not even blessing but HIMSELF… my GOD.”
Leonard Ravenhill (1907–1994) British writer
R. A. Lafferty (1914–2002) American writer
Roadstrum, in Ch. 8
Space Chantey (1968)
Context: I will be double-damned to a better Hell than Hellpepper Planet if I will have my ending here in peace! Peace be not the end of my epic! An epic is already failed if it have an ending. I don't care how it ended the first time — it will not end the same now!