“Peace is not something you wish for, it is something you make, something you are, something you do, and something you give away.”
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American writer 1937Related quotes
“Be free. Don't just make freedom something you have, make it something you do … something you ARE!”
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 156
Context: The best way to celebrate your freedom is to LIVE it! Be you. Be free. Don't just make freedom something you have, make it something you do... something you ARE!
“If you possess something but you can't give it away, then you don't possess it… it possesses you.”
Tom Dreesen on the Late Show with David Letterman March 30th 2009 said that Frank Sinatra had said this after giving his $2000 cuff links to a fan.
Source: Odd Mom Out
"My Feelings" (p. 179)
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)
“Love isn’t something you have, it’s something you do.”
"The Land of Love", p. 172
Awareness (1992)
Context: Understand the obstructions you are putting in the way of love, freedom, and happiness and they will drop. Turn on the light of awareness and the darkness will disappear. Happiness is not something you acquire; love is not something you produce; love is not something you have; love is something that has you.
Campaign speech in Michigan (1968) https://books.google.com/?id=uXRx5hGm8zYC&dq="Do+you+want+to+make+a+point+or+do+you+want+to+make+a+change"&pg=PA17
1960s