Seven Peace Pilgrim Quotes on Friendship

Peace Pilgrim was a remarkable woman who walked across America many times spreading a message of peace, beginning during the Korean War in 1953 and ending with her death in 1981. She vowed to keep walking until there was peace in the world, and she walked more than 25,000 miles before she stopped counting.

After her death, Peace Pilgrim’s friends compiled her writings and interviews into a book called Peace Pilgrim – Her Life and Work in Her Own Words. My copy of the book contains hundreds of underlined inspirational quotes, so I decided to pull some of them and curate them into lists that relate to our everyday lives.

This post contains seven quotes that relate to friendship.

Entire books have been written on how to make friends, but Peace Pilgrim distills the subject down to such simplicity that there’s not much need for more. Her philosophy is based on the Golden Rule, a concept we can easily understand and strive to put into practice every day. Here are seven quotes from Peace Pilgrim that will help you make friends.

If you want to make friends, you must be friendly (3).
Life is like a mirror. Smile at it and it smiles back at you. I just put a big smile on my face and everyone smiles back (38).
When we can talk together, we will realize that our likenesses are so much greater than our differences, however great our differences may seem (119).
We the people of the world need to find ways to get to know one another—for then we will recognize that our likenesses are so much greater than our differences, however great our differences may seem (50).
I am not concerned with racial or ethnic background or the color of one’s skin; all people look to me like shining lights! (50).
Some people spend much less time picking a life partner than they spend picking out a car. They just drift into these relationships (63).
Associations formed in this earth life are not necessarily for the duration of the life span. Separation takes place constantly, and as long as it takes place lovingly not only is there no spiritual injury, but spiritual progress may actually be helped (19).

Peace Pilgrim’s friends believed that to charge money for a book would be at odds with her core values and decided to offer it for free. They receive enough money in donations to publish and fulfill every request. You can order copies and other materials for free directly from Friends of Peace Pilgrim.

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