Humility is that simple, inner life of real greatness, which is indifferent to magnificence, and, surrounded by it all, lives far away… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
The man who can articulate the movements of his inner life need no longer be a victim of himself, but is able… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
If you can understand the inner life, then you can wear the uniform, the tattoos, or whatnot and realize that the things… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
“The "whole good" cannot be had, it would seem, without mustering all the strength of our inner life. Even in the sphere… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
Even going through the motions is a way of establishing a new relationship with our inner life that is caring and tender,… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
“What a paradox, what a cruelty, what an irony, there is here—that inner life and imagination may lie dull and dormant unless… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
“The grand point is not to wear the garb, nor use the brogue of religion, but to process the life of God… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We are slaves of what we don't know;of what we know we are masters.Whatever vice or weakness in ourselves we discoverand understand… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
“If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply… — Max Müller Copy Share Image
The relative ease of most driving lures us into thinking we can get away with doing other things. Indeed, those other things,… — Tom Vanderbilt Copy Share Image
If we would accept heaven's life, we need by all means to live in the world and to participate in its duties… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
“If you are in the mountains alone for some time, many days at minimum, & it helps if you are fasting. The… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
“The irrational is the impossible; it is that which contradicts the facts of reality; facts cannot be altered by a wish, but… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Thus, on the one hand, Spenser's thought is steeped in sensuous detail, so that for him there is no really abstract thinking;… — Janet Spens Copy Share Image
“The tension between religion and science is an old problem. In the fourth century, Christians and scientists were deadlocked over the matter… — Ronald W. Dworkin Copy Share Image
I inquired what wickedness is, and I didn't find a substance, but a perversity of will twisted away from the highest substance… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The only true hope for civilization-the conviction of the individual that his inner life can affect outward events and that, whether or… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
The problem of education is twofold: first to know, and then to utter. Everyone who lives any semblance of an inner life… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I thought it would be really cool to show the world the inner life of someone like me, who doesn't have a… — Robert Lopez Copy Share Image
The role of humankind is to use the cultural and social environment it has created to devise new global values… Human relations… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
Flow is the process of achieving happiness through control over one's inner life. The optimal state of inner experience is order in… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Even if I seemed to remember, I could not know. For just to remember something is not to know if it really… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“I inquired what wickedness is, and I didn't find a substance, but a perversity of will twisted away from the highest substance… — St. Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
Normal fear protects us; abnormal fear paralyses us. Normal fear motivates us to improve our individual and collective welfare; abnormal fear constantly… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“History testifies to the truth that it is misery that teaches men more than happiness, that it is poverty that strengthens them… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“Toxic shame, with its more-than-human, less-than-human polarization, is either inhuman or dehumanizing. The demand for a false self to cover and hide… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
The profound political changes we need in order to heal our planet will not come about through fragmented problem solving or intellectual… — Petra Kelly Copy Share Image
“In the inner life, if there is no sincerity, nothing can be achieved. And to whom are you being sincere? You are… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
“Whenever God thinks of you, he has your best interests in mind; he has plans to take you further, deeper, and higher… — Margaret Feinberg Copy Share Image
Only through the medium of the public physical world can the mind of one person make a difference to the mind of… — Gilbert Ryle Copy Share Image
“To the mind (Geist), good and evil, above and below, are not skeptical, relative concepts, but terms of a function, values that… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action. Their acquisition… — Midge Decter Copy Share Image
Thou shall love the Lord with thy whole heart, soul, and mind. This is the commandment of the Great God, and he… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
The strongest wish of a vast number of earnest men and women to-day is for a basis of religious belief which shall… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
“Material things have closed boundaries; they are not accessible, cannot be penetrated, by things outside themselves. But one's existence as a spiritual… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
Most of us love a non-self, or something extrinsic and apart from our inner life; but a mother's love during the time… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“The inner life is bruised by a running against the laws of the Kingdom. The bruises are guilt complexes, a sense of… — E. Stanley Jones Copy Share Image
Writing down your thoughts is both necessary and harmful. It leads to eccentricity, narcissism, preserves what should be let go. On the… — Anna Kamienska Copy Share Image
Every person must live the inner life in one form or another. Consciously or unconsciously, voluntarily or involuntarily, the inner world will… — Robert A. Johnson Copy Share Image
