Best wishes for peace in the New Year
It is not just holiday traditions of different religions and cultures, but something about the end of one year and the beginning of another that compels us to reflect on where we’ve been and where we might go. This is true for us individually and for organizations and governments.
“Peace” is a wish, a hope, and a prayer made and shared by many at this time of year, even though we don’t always share the same ideas about how it is best achieved. As a mediator, I have had the privilege this year of working with many who have committed to forge agreements and create peace in many facets of their lives and work.
It is worth listening to reflections on the challenge of peacemaking as we struggle with this in our families, at work, and as citizens. In anticipation of the promise of a new year, and with thanks to many for so much in the past year, please accept these reflections on peace.
A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.
William Shakespeare
I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Peace hath higher tests of manhood, than battle ever knew.
John Greenleaf Whittier
The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.
Dag Hammarskjold
Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.
John Andrew Holmes
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
Mother Teresa
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