There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.
Interpretation
Inner peace is an illusion, and we must face the reality of our anxieties or mortality.
Fran Lebowitz highlights the idea that inner peace is not a tangible state that can be achieved; rather, it is often overshadowed by the inherent nervousness of life or the certainty of death. Her statement suggests that any belief in achieving a permanent state of tranquility is misguided, and that acceptance of our fears and mortality is a more realistic approach to existence.
In practice
In a discussion about mental health, this quote can emphasize the struggle to attain inner peace.
Your responsibility as a parent is not as great as you might imagine. You need not supply the world with the next conqueror of disease or major motion picture star. If your child simply grows up to be someone who does not use the word "collectible" as a noun, you can consider yourself an unqualified success.
You should make it hard on yourself to write so youβre easier to read.
Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so special.
I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word - politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.
I must take issue with the term 'a mere child,' for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.
Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.
There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.
To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.
While we wait for life, life passes
Christ will be master of the heart, and sin must be mortified. If your life is unholy, then your heart is unchanged, and you are an unsaved person. The Savior will sanctify His people, renew them, give them a hatred of sin, and a love of holiness. The grace that does not make a man better than others is a worthless counterfeit. Christ saves His people, not IN their sins, but FROM their sins. Without holiness, no man shall see the Lord.
He who imitates what is evil always goes beyond the example that is set; on the contrary, he who imitates what is good always falls short.
We are the species who cooks. No other species cooks. And when we learned to cook, we became truly human.
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