“Philosophically defined, growth is the struggle of life to control its environment or, rather, to include more and more of its environment… — Manly P. Hall Copy Share Image
“The New Man is the most important things that is happening in the world today. The new man will have to find… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
“Let us beware of tinkering with our inner life in hope ourselves to rend the veil. God must do everything for us.… — A.W. Tozer Copy Share Image
Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began, as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“As we advance in the spiritual life and in the practice of systematic self-examination we are often surprised by the discovery of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Odysseus is the statesman of the Iliad, the man in the middle, keeping what balance he can among the parties. He shows… — Eva Brann Copy Share Image
“As adults, HSPs tend to have just the right personalities for inner work and healing. Generally speaking, your keen intuition helps you… — Elaine N. Aron Copy Share Image
“The tangible and factual components of reality along with the intangible strands of memory and imagination constitute the framework that houses our… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Trust yourself and your instincts; even if you go wrong in your judgement, the natural growth of your inner life will gradually,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“She changed her position, contemplated a row od apple shrubs that she had put in last autumn at the bottom of the… — Enid Bagnold Copy Share Image
“Let them judge me as they like, I could deceive them, but myself I cannot deceive...and strange to say, in this acknowledgement… — Leo Tolstoy Ressurrection Copy Share Image
I know some very great writers, writers you love who write beautifully and have made a great deal of money, and not… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: When you are reconciled to the fact that… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
In ancient times, any man rising up above the common people tried to shape his life according to his principles; it is… — African Spir Copy Share Image
“All our opinions are false and don’t matter in the grand scheme of things. We live ,we die. We as individuals don’t… — Ilwaad Isa Copy Share Image
One of the weaknesses of much abstract painting is the attempt to substitute the inventions of the intellect for a pristine imaginative… — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
“ How long is it going to take God to free us from the unhealthy habit of thinking only about ourselves? We must… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
If you make a habit of sincere prayer, your life will be very noticeably and profoundly altered. Prayer stamps with its indelible… — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
“We do not have to look about us very far or for very long to realize the disastrous effects produced on the… — Jean Déchanet Copy Share Image
Those stories weren't being written at all - stories about women's inner lives and outer activism. We've come miles and miles, but… — Marisa Tomei Copy Share Image
To me, feminism in literature deals with the female characters being in some way central to the thematic concerns of the book,… — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
“What is talkativeness ? It is the result of doing away with the vital distinction between talking and keeping silent. Only some… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Everything about art has become problematic; its inner life, its relation to society, even its right to exist. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
“It was such a relief to realize someone else had a weird vivid inner life like my own!” — Jacqueline Wilson Copy Share Image
The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Empathy is the capacity to think and feel oneself into the inner life of another person. — Heinz Kohut Copy Share Image
Having outer, visible power requires having a developed, mature inner life — Craig Williams Copy Share Image
“He liked people who knew weird things, just because it seemed to hint at some odd inner life.” — Andrea Speed Copy Share Image
I've never done anything but dream. This, and this alone, has been the meaning of my life. My only real concern has… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Fiction is risky for writers also in that the process of making certain books, of shaping certain narratives, leaves scars and marks… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
The fact is I don't lead a simple enough inner life. I indulge in excesses, bacchanalia of the spirit. Perhaps I identify… — Etty Hillesum Copy Share Image
“The New or Future Eve is emptied of all inner life and turned into a shell. The bitter irony in this is… — Asti Hustvedt Copy Share Image
The home is the center of your soul; it's a total reflection of your inner life. If you have a dreary home,… — Alexandra Stoddard Copy Share Image
When you release the wrongdoer from the wrong, you cut a malignant tumor out of your inner life. You set a prisoner… — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
“The equipment for the inner life of prayer is simple, if not always easily secured. It consists particularly of a quiet place,… — David M. McIntyre Copy Share Image
“We lose, again and again, the present moment — which is not a poetic concept but the literal location of everything that… — Ayisha Bhatti Copy Share Image
“The majority of people carry in their minds and in their hearts, grudges, jealousy, envy, antipathies, prejudices, which, although not very pronounced… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
The director’s task is to recreate life, its movement, its contradictions, its dynamic and conflicts. It is his duty to reveal every… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
One always, sooner or later, comes upon a city which is an image of one's inner cities. Fez is an image of… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image