"Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others."

-- Gerald Jampolsky

#Mind Quotes #Peace Of Mind Quotes

“I'm full of restlessness. Not lonely, exactly - my head is racing with ideas. But it is that old treacherous feeling that real life is happening somewhere else, and I'm left out.”

Source : Helen Garner (2011). “Monkey Grip”, p.257, ReadHowYouWant.com
“I was feeling a bit down, I went to a therapist a few times, at a hundred bucks a pop. But then I realized that no therapy session would ever cheer me up half as much as if I was just strolling along and found a hundred dollar bill.”
“I really want my career to be as an actor-writer-director-producer, you know? I don't know what will be stronger than the other.”
“I would like to be a parson on this island. Explain the Sermon on the Mount to ordinary people and let the world be the world.”
“Mark you, if you give up spirituality, leaving it aside to go after the materializing civilization of the West, the result will be that in three generations you will be an extinct race; because the backbone of the nation will be broken, the foundation upon which the national edifice has been built will be undermined, and the result will be annihilation all round.”
“Aviation will give new nourishment to the religious sprit of mankind. It will add airspace to those other great heighteners of the cosmic mood: the wood, the sea, the desert.”
“Don't ever be discouraged with yourself because you have not arrived at success, but instead be pleased that you are pressing toward it.”
“Ladies and gentlemen, a picture is not worth a thousand words. We found some pictures that are worth 500 billion words.”

Source : "What we learned from 5 million books". TEDxBoston Talk, www.ted.com. July 2011.

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