Seven Peace Pilgrim Quotes on Love

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. Page numbers are included.

This post contains seven quotes that relate to love.

If John Lennon and Peace Pilgrim had met, they would surely agree on one thing, “All You Need is Love.” Peace Pilgrim believed that there was nothing more powerful than love and that love can, indeed, conquer all. Want world peace? Try love first. Here are seven Peace Pilgrim quotes on the subject of love.

1. When love fills your life, all limitations are gone. The medicine this sick world needs so badly is love (12).
2. Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return. . . (146).
3. In order to help usher in the golden age we must see the good in people (87).
4. If we fear nothing and radiate love, we can expect good things to come. How much this world needs the message and the example of love and faith! (101).
5. We should always be reaching upward for light—while reaching outward in love to those who need our help (147).
6. My simple peace message is adequate—really just the message that the way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth (97).
7. The price of peace is to abandon hate and allow love to reign supreme in our hearts—love for all our fellow human beings over the world (110).

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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