"There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace?"

-- Peace Pilgrim

#Thinking Quotes #Judging Quotes #Inner Peace Quotes

“But when my mother died, I found that I did not believe that she was gone.”
“Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other. Love is an echo in the feelings of a unity subsisting between two persons which is founded both on likeness and on complementary differences. Without the likeness there would be no attraction; without the challenge of the complementary differences there could not be the closer interweaving and the inextinguishable mutual interest which is the characteristic of all deeper relationships.”

Source : "Life and Destiny". Book by Felix Adler, 1903.
“You are always talking about yourself and tennis and how you are feeling. I try to avoid it when I don't have to.”
“As so often happens in marriage, roles that had begun almost playfully, to give line and shape to our lives, had hardened like suits of armor and taken us prisoner.”

Source : Molly Haskell (2000). “Love and Other Infectious Diseases: A Memoir”, p.12, iUniverse
“You also, O son Brutus. [Lat., Et tu, Brute fili.]”
“I've never done real sci-fi. I've never played an alien. I've never played some sort of superhero. Which I'd love to do!”
“The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right.”
“It is true that I am carrying out various methods of treatment recommended by doctors and dentists in the hope of dying in the remote future in perfect health.”

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