No vital Christianity is possible unless at least three aspects of it are developed. These are the inner life of devotion, the… — D. Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
In 'The Third Hotel,' my narrator, Claire, is wrestling with this sense of perpetual unfinishedness. She's trying to make sense of her… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
Men who have a tempestuous inner life and do not seek to give vent to it by talking or writing are simply… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
“To fear an inner life, she thought, was the greatest foolishness. It was like fearing a breath of air. Why did people… — Valerie Martin Copy Share Image
I do feel there are countless people on earth who do not believe in the inner power, the inner life. They feel… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
When a book's pattern and the shape of its inner life is as plain to the reader as it is to the… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I was very academically inclined. But my inner life was in such turmoil. I'd go home and my home life was so… — Sonja Sohn Copy Share Image
Now, stopping thought is only the beginning. As Brahmananda, who was a disciple of Sri Ramakrishna, once remarked: The inner life begins… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“When I thought of myself, of the feelings I had, of the things I thought I understood so well, I imagined myself… — Gaito Gazdanov Copy Share Image
I'd describe my inner life as constantly vigilant, always ready to flee or respond with violence. I've felt this way since I… — Phoebe Gloeckner Copy Share Image
“Muhammad once was talking to a crowd of chieftains, princes with great influence, when a poor blind man interrupted him. Muhammad frowned… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“Oh, maybe Leonard Cohen. Leonard Cohen is my hero. He’s like Zorba the Buddha. Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, the Indian guru who I… — Mara Altman Copy Share Image
“You should observe, and have observed, in which direction God urges you most of all to go, for, as St. Paul says,… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
“He had talked of getting occupation of this sort so long that he had not the face to refuse outright, but the… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Healing is the way of the heart. This book is an invitation to open our heart. Healing is a love affair with… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
“Over the years, I've moved through alternating cycles of personal neglect and nourishment. Sometimes it's just easier to give in and allow… — Lisa Hardman Copy Share Image
It wasn't until I began to work on my inner life and know myself that my life changed. Success really does begin… — Robin Sharma Copy Share Image
Whatever results you're getting, be they rich or poor, good or bad, positive or negative, always remember that your outer world is… — T. Harv Eker Copy Share Image
The inner life of the [imagination], and not the personal and tiny experiential resources of the actor, should be elaborated on the… — Michael Chekhov Copy Share Image
Women are certainly more happy in this than we men: their employments occupy a smaller portion of their thoughts, and the earnest… — Friedrich Schleiermacher Copy Share Image
“You are one thing only. You are a Divine Being. An all-powerful Creator. You are a Deity in jeans and a t-shirt,… — Anthon St. Maarten Copy Share Image
Use the freest goods for happiness... The stars cost nothing. Nature costs nothing. Your inner life costs nothing. God costs nothing. And… — Robert Muller Copy Share Image
A painter, who finds no satisfaction in mere representation, however artistic, in his longing to express his inner life, cannot but envy… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
Inner-life questions are the kind everyone asks, with or without benefit of God-talk: 'Does my life have meaning and purpose?' 'Do I… — Parker Palmer Copy Share Image
All my novels are very much directly related to my inner life, even though I'm inventing characters, even though it's fiction, even… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Faith is the door to the full inner life of the Church, a life which includes not only access to an authoritative… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Poetry is the inner life of a culture, its nervous system, its deepest way of imagining the world. A culture that ignores… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Without a revolution of the inner life, however slow, all our big designs are worthless. The work we have to do is… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
For me there's several components to picture-taking and it starts with my goals as an artist. It's capturing I guess the inner… — Carol Friedman Copy Share Image
...I also believe that introversion is my greatest strength. I have such a strong inner life that I’m never bored and only… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“Characters in novels sometimes radiate more energy, therefore, when we don’t enter their mind. It is one of the techniques a novelist… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“When you're living so intensely in your head there isn't any different between what you imagine and what actually takes place. Therefore,… — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
The plays I choose to work on are about having masks. We all have masks in life, but there is a different… — Marianne Elliott Copy Share Image
“It is part of the trivialization of politics that we give endless attention to the inner life of the politician - his… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
I'm trying to learn something about making a balance between the inner life and the outer life. I wouldn't write if I… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
“Why is history uncontested here? There is no sight of that dispute over words, that battle over versions of stories that marks… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
That's one of the beauties, I think, of African American life. There was this thing called slavery and adjustments were made. It… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
All writers are autobiographical to a degree and writing about the nature of their inner life. My inner life has always been… — Francis Levy Copy Share Image
The landscape is a reflection of the inner life. Since I can't shoot the inner life, all I can shoot is the… — Bruno Dumont Copy Share Image
“Empathy is the capacity to think and feel oneself into the inner life of another person. It has both emotional and cognitive… — Jacqui Stedmon Copy Share Image