Thinking and spoken discourse are the same thing, except that what we call thinking is, precisely, the inward dialogue carried on by… — Plato Copy Share Image
I won't deny that I have a far more productive writing life without the Internet, mostly because I rekindle my ability to… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
I am pure light, not just a fistful of clay. The shell is not me, I came as the royal pearl within.… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Pride is a vice not only dreadfully mischievous in human society, but perhaps of all others, the most insuperable bar to real… — Elizabeth Carter Copy Share Image
Flesh and blood, You, brother mine, that entertain'd ambition, Expell'd remorse and nature, who, with Sebastian- Whose inward pinches therefore are most… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It is the only thing we can do. Each of us must turn inward and destroy in himself all that he thinks… — Etty Hillesum Copy Share Image
How many cowards whose hearts are all as false As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins The beards of Hercules… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
To see the dull indifference, the negligent and thoughtless air that sits upon the faces of a whole assembly, while the psalm… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
It's too easy only to blame the militarists, racists, sexists and other pushers of violence for the mess we're in. What is… — Colman McCarthy Copy Share Image
It must be so,-Plato, thou reasonest well! Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
In classical understanding, education is the attempt to "lead out" from within the self a core of wisdom that has the power… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
'Rust' really started with the passing of my dad, and me really looking back inward to my self about where I stand… — Corbin Bernsen Copy Share Image
Prayer frees us to be controlled by God. To pray is to change. There is no greater liberating force in the Christian… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
Those who were skillful in Anatomy among the Ancients, concluded from the outward and inward Make of an Human Body, that it… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
But his face had that hollow look, as if there was something gone... you know that look. The inward focus. Distantly attentive… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
Community cannot take root in a divided life. Long before community assumes external shape and form, it must be present as seed… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
There is a quiet courage that comes from an inward spring of confidence in the meaning and significance of life. Such courage… — Howard Thurman Copy Share Image
Do not worry about what others are doing! Each of us should turn the searchlight inward and purify his or her own… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
All life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference betwixt those born of real… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
I was extremely close with my mother and my grandmothers, we shared our lives - fully, honestly - and it was heightened… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Yes, there is a Divinity, one from which we must never turn aside for the guidance of our huge inward life and… — Henri Barbusse Copy Share Image
Learn the backward step that turns your light inward to illuminate your self. Body and mind of themselves will drop away, and… — Dogen Copy Share Image
Every character has an inward spring; let Christ be that spring. Every action has a keynote; let Christ be that note, to… — William Henry Drummond Copy Share Image
The clich? that women, more consistently than men, turn inward for sustenance seems to mean, in practice, that women have richly defined… — Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks Copy Share Image
Without communism ... our state lacks a Wizard of Oz to terrify all the people all the time. So the state looks… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Outward attacks and troubles rather fix than unsettle the Christian, as tempests from without only serve to root the oak faster; while… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Making one object, in outward or inward nature, more holy to a single heart is reward enough for a life; for the… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
If our inward griefs were seen written on our brow, how many would be pitied who are now envied! [It., Se a… — Pietro Metastasio Copy Share Image
Imagine the wheel of time turning in a seemingly endless round, revealing that the beginning is the end of another beginning. This… — Phil Cousineau Copy Share Image
Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The government is also looking at further benefits including enhanced capital allowances; the use of Tax Incremental Finance; and extra help from… — Andy Sawford Copy Share Image
Storytelling strengthens the imagination. To imagine is to envision, to see with the inward eye. This ability to imagine is the basis… — Carol Birch Copy Share Image
To understand a Bible text it takes an act of the Holy Spirit equal to the act that inspired the text in… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
I hear about actors being exterior actors and actors being instinctual actors and I always think it's crap. Anybody who knows anything… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
The ancient philosophers, Chinese, Hindu, Persian, and Greek, were a class than which none has been poorer in outward riches, none so… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Whenever I experience something beautiful, I am with Soul. That moment of inward breath, that pause and awareness of "how beautiful this… — Jean Shinoda Bolen Copy Share Image
Oh, impossible. Fancy cream puffs so soon after breakfast. The very idea made one shudder. All the same, two minutes later Jose… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
“When you choose to look inward, you are choosing to go where no man has gone before, because only you have access… — Debra Fileta Copy Share Image