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.
Christian principles are, admittedly, stricter than the others; but then we think you will get help towards obeying them which you will not get towards obeying the others.
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
A glimpse into the world proves that horror is nothing other than reality.
Not everything that steps out of line, and thus "abnormal", must necessarily be "inferior".
According to Gandhi, the seven sins are wealth without works, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, and politics without principle. Well, Hubert Humphrey may have sinned in the eyes of God, as we all do, but according to those definitions of Gandhi's, it was Hubert Humphrey without sin.
Doctors always think anybody doing something they aren't is a quack; also they think all patients are idiots.
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