Within the past days, months and years, violence in the world has been rapidly increasing in frequency and severity. In times of global distress, it's important to stay positive and hopeful. Hundreds of authors, musicians and celebrities have embraced this ideology and promoted peace within ourselves and the world.

"Most people go, I wish for world peace. But chaos has a place in balancing out the light and the dark in the world. I don't know if I would wish for world peace." - Brendan Fraser

"Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace." - Jimi Hendrix

"Human Beings, indeed all sentient beings, have the right to pursue happiness and live in peace and freedom." - Dalai Lama

"Let us not accept violence as the way of peace. Let us instead begin by respecting true freedom: the resulting peace will be able to satisfy the world's expectations, for it will be a peace built on justice, a peace founded on the incomparable dignity of the free human being." - Pope John Paul II

"If you are tired, keep going; if you are scared, keep going; if you are hungry; keep going; if you want to taste freedom, keep going." - Harriet Tubman

"I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete." - Ronald Reagan

"One day we must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but that it is a means by which we arrive at that goal. We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means." - Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.