“The desert and the ocean are realms of desolation on the surface. The desert is a place of bones, where the innards… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
We are free when we are not the slave of our impulses, but rather their master. Taking inward distance, we thus become… — Huston Smith 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
The difference between the first and second-best things in art absolutely seems to escape verbal definition -- it is a matter of… — William James Copy Share Image
Our population and our use of the finite resources of planet Earth are growing exponentially, along with our technical ability to change… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Wise people have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The kind of teaching that transforms people does not happen if the student’s inward teacher is ignored… we can speak to the… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward… — Laurence Olivier Copy Share Image
Happiness is less regulated by external circumstances than inward enjoyment. Whoever is happy in the satisfaction of himself feels imperturbable felicity; but… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
Meditation has become a big part of my life these days. It's more about taking some moments for yourself to deep-breathe and… — Renee Marino Copy Share Image
You must hand yourself and all your inward experiences, your temptations, your temperament, your frames and feelings, all over into the care… — Hannah Whitall Smith Copy Share Image
Glad and merry and sweet is the blessed and lovely demeanour of our Lord towards our souls, for he saw us always… — Julian of Norwich Copy Share Image
Poetry interprets in two ways: it interprets by expressing, with magical felicity, the physiognomy and movements of the outward world; and it… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Feuerbach ... recognizes ... "even love, in itself the truest, most inward sentiment, becomes an obscure, illusory one through religiousness, since religious… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
Turn inward and say to yourself "I'm just gonna do it". That mindset got me to where I am now. I look… — Bill Burr Copy Share Image
The inward sighs of humble penitence Rise to the ear of Heaven, when peal'd hymns Are scatter'd with the sounds of common… — Joanna Baillie Copy Share Image
...rise above selfishness. This includes spiritual selfishness, when one looks toward personal edification and strengthening and has no other interest than one's… — Hans B. Ringger Copy Share Image
Readers and writers are united in their need for solitude, in their pursuit of substance in a time of ever-increasing evanescence: in… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Affirmation of life is the spiritual act by which man ceases to live unreflectively and begins to devote himself to his life… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
I know what I want, I have a goal, an opinion, I have a religion and love. Let me be myself and… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
The happiness for which our souls ache is one undisturbed by success or failure, one which will root deeply inside us and… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
Read myths. They teach you that you can turn inward, and you begin to get the message of the symbols. Read other… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
True contact between beings is established only by mute presence, by apparent non-communication, by that mysterious and wordless exchange which resembles inward… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
