Mulling Over Quotes:

Worry is a useless mulling over of things we cannot change.

- Peace Pilgrim

source: Peace Pilgrim (1981). “Steps Toward Inner Peace”, p.13, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

topic: Mulling Over, Worry, Useless, Mulling

Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound.

- Peace Pilgrim

source: Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.38, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

topic: Inspirational, Peace, Mulling Over, Enviromental

Worry is useless mulling over of things we cannot change. Worry is not concern, which would motivate you to do everything possible in a situation.

- Peace Pilgrim

source: Peace Pilgrim (1981). “Steps Toward Inner Peace”, p.13, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

topic: Mulling Over, Worry, Useless, Mulling

Get inside before I spank you in public." There it was again, another of his maddening threats. Did that mean he wouldn't spank her if she did as he said or that he simply planned to spank her in private? She was still mulling over the whole unpleasant concept when he started the truck.

- Susan Elizabeth Phillips

topic: Mean, Mulling Over, Truck, Mulling

Hello, Halberstam," Owen says, walking by. Hello, Owen," I say, admiring the way he's styled and slicked back his hair, with a part so even and sharp it... devastates me and I make a mental note to ask him where he purchases his hair-care products, which kind of mousse he uses, my final guesses after mulling over the possibilities being Ten-X.

- Bret Easton Ellis

source: Bret Easton Ellis (2014). “American Psycho: Picador Classic”, p.96, Pan Macmillan

topic: Mulling Over, Hair, Care, Mulling, Admiring

If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.

- Peace Pilgrim

source: Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.80, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Trust, Positive Thoughts, Spiritual Wisdom

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things....

- Peace Pilgrim

source: Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.97, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

topic: Love You, Love Is, Way, Peace And Love, Mulling Over

The valid research for the future is on the inner side, on the spiritual side.

- Peace Pilgrim

topic: Spiritual, Peace, Sides, Mulling Over

The purpose of problems is to push you toward obedience to God's laws, which are exact and cannot be changed. We have the free will to obey them or disobey them. Obedience will bring harmony, disobedience will bring you more problems... There was a time when I thought it was a nuisance to be confronted with a problem. I tried to get rid of it. I tried to get somebody else to solve it for me. But that was a long time ago. It was a great day in my life when I discovered the wonderful purpose of problems. Yes, they have a wonderful purpose.

- Peace Pilgrim

topic: Law, Long, Great Day, Obedience To God, Mulling Over

People have found inner peace by losing themselves in a cause larger than themselves. Finding inner peace means coming from the self-centered life into the life centered.

- Peace Pilgrim

topic: Mean, Self, People, Mulling Over, Finding Inner Peace

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

- Peace Pilgrim

topic: Inspirational, Life, Simplicity, Mulling Over, Simplification

I understand true life doesn't happen when I constantly gaze backwards, mulling over all the injustices others have done or I have done to others.

- Mary E. DeMuth

source: Mary E DeMuth (2010). “Thin Places: A Memoir”, p.48, Zondervan

topic: True Life, Done, Injustice, Mulling, Mulling Over