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
One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidden, private life of ordinary… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I am drawn to characters who have a deeply chaotic inner life who are putting up a mask to the rest of… — Myha'la 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
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
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
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
“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
“In actuality, myths are neither fiction nor history. Nor are most myths—and this will surprise some people—an amalgamation of fiction and history.… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
It is astonishing, how many difficulties clear up without any effort when the inner life gets straightened out. If half the time… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
“It follows from Schopenhauer’s analysis that evert genuine work of art must have its origin in direct perception; that is to say… — Bryan Magee Copy Share Image
Truth, acceptance of the truth, is a shattering experience. It shatters the binding shroud of culture trance. It rips apart smugness, arrogance,… — Paula Gunn Allen Copy Share Image
Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Art is beauty, and every exposition of art, whether it be music, painting, or the drama, should be subservient to that one… — Julia Marlowe Copy Share Image
“This is a pale reflection of a deeper truth: that the One who created us holds us with a constancy that does… — Ayisha Bhatti Copy Share Image
“Rather, by psyche here Paul basically means what the Hebrew nephesh regularly meant: the whole human being seen from the point of… — N.T. Wright 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
“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
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
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
“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
“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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
“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
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