Peace Pilgrim Quotations

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 had 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 every day lives.

Here are links to the lists:

• For Finding Inner Peace
• On the Power of Thought
• On Finding Your Purpose
• On Problems, Worry, Fear
• On Being a Vegetarian
• On Resilience
• On Conflict
• On Service
• On Friendship
• On Hate
• On Possessions
• On Love

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.

Seven Things to Know About Peace Pilgrim

“THIS IS THE WAY OF PEACE:

OVERCOME EVIL WITH GOOD, 

FALSEHOOD WITH TRUTH, 

AND HATRED WITH LOVE.”

–PEACE PILGRIM