“A woman carries her inner life—lugs it around or holds it in like fumes that both poison and bless her—while nourishing another’s… — Durga Chew-Bose Copy Share Image
An inner life and inner enemies to conquer, battle and destroy. These enemies are the various desires that seek to distract our… — Johan Oscar Smith Copy Share Image
It's a young country and a German only feels comfortable being with the masses. They have very little talent at creating an… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Some statements concern the conscious states of the animal, what he is to himself as an inner life; others concern his original… — Edward Thorndike Copy Share Image
For me, psychology and art interact and overlap in so many ways. Psychology is the study of the inner life and creativity… — Kelly Carlin-McCall Copy Share Image
He who floats with the current, who does not guide himself according to higher principles, who has no ideal, no convictions-such a… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
“He recognized with authentic realism that anyone who permits another to determine the quality of his inner life gives into the hands… — Howard Thurman Copy Share Image
“Some of us will admit to a simple fascination with the inner world for its own sake, a fascination with no further… — Sandra Lee Dennis Copy Share Image
And if I were to ask myself from what literature we who have been nurtured almost exclusively on the thoughts of Greeks… — Max Muller Copy Share Image
“Some people think that cultivating compassion is good for others but not necessarily for themselves, but this is wrong. You are the… — Dalai Lama XIV 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
“Do not despise your inner world. That is the first and most general piece of advice I would offer… Our society is… — Martha Nussbaum Copy Share Image
“Human beings innate complexities resist reduction into simple sentences and neat paragraphs. The stories that come nearest to expressing the ambivalent nature… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“I have always felt deep within myself that I do not trust that I am already OK as I am, and that… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
TV acting is so extremely intimate, because of the peculiar involvement of the viewer with the completion orclosing of the TV image,… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Most true happiness comes from one's inner life, from the disposition of the mind and soul. Admittedly, a good inner life is… — William L. Shirer Copy Share Image
Experiences, much more than instruction, are a seeing with the inner eye - finding a channel to our essential inner life, a… — Lawren Harris Copy Share Image
Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers… — Don Delillo Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you can tell all you need to know about a person just in the way they ask the question: politely, or… — Deborah Lawrenson Copy Share Image
“Whether people were great or not, there was not much variety in their inner life experience. Any difference lay merely in how… — Eiji Yoshikawa Copy Share Image
Before entering the seminary, I had not encountered the life-changing potential of reading as a source of meaning, as a way of… — James Carroll Copy Share Image
Seek first the Kingdom of God: that is, the first order of business is to transform one's own inner life, not the… — John D. Caputo Copy Share Image
We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth… — Mary Antin Copy Share Image
Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand. Anyone may gather it and no limit… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
There's a curious knot that binds novelists and terrorists...Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
'Biblical worldview'. The term means literally a 'view of the world', a biblically informed perspective on all of reality. A worldview is… — Nancy Pearcey 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
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
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
Like everything genuine, its inner life guarantees its truth. All works of art created by truthful minds without regard for the work's… — Franz Marc Copy Share Image
I love the way she projects two facets: a visible persona and a subterranean one. She keeps her thoughts to herself; she… — Francois Truffaut 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
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
“Art can certainly be an important pathway to discovery. It encourages us to be spontaneous, playful, and curious and to see what… — Robi Ludwig Copy Share Image
When the whole world is writing letters, it's easy to lap into the quiet within, tell the story of an hour, keep… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
Busyness, I feel increasingly, is the writer's curse and downfall. You read too much and write too readily, you become cut off… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“We still carry within us, in a small warm spot, the idea of home. Home as a safe place, a loving place… — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
“The insecure people enjoy bad mouthing the others. They indulge in the continuous havoc and they tangle themselves in this spider web… — Euginia Herlihy Copy Share Image