Inner life Quote by Alain de Botton Download Open image ““I think the genius of religions is that they structure the inner life.”” — Alain de Botton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Inner life Life Religion
“Religion is a way of life, but knowing God is a way of living beyond yourself.” — Love Belvin Copy Share Image
“Religion is a way of life, but knowing God is a way of living beyond yourself. It’s a relationship with a living, supernatural being.” — Love Belvin Copy Share Image
“I believe in divinity. Like the goodness that works through people. The God inside humanity.” — Aryn Kyle Copy Share Image
“Religion is the process of internal growth, not a lifeless bag of foolish words.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Your beliefs have the power to unlock your inner genius or keep you from fully achieving your greatest potential.” — Deborah Day Copy Share Image
“In reality, there are as many religions as there are individuals.” — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Religion, so far as it is genuine, is in essence the response of created personalities to the Creating Personality, God.” — A.W. Tozer Copy Share Image
“Religion is not a book, it is not an institution, and it is not even a person. True Religion is realization of the self.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“To be mature is, we're told, to move beyond possessiveness. Jealousy is for babies. The mature person knows that no one owns anyone.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“He feared that by leaving her he would ruin her life - so he stayed, and did just that.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you're annoyed with them. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“The Anxiety of Sunday afternoon: your unlived lives and infinite possibility pressing upon the constraints of reality.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Those who divorce aren't necessarily the most unhappy, just those neatly able to believe their misery is caused by one other person. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“We could not be fulfilled if we weren't inauthentic some of the time—inauthentic, that is, in relation to such things as our passing desires… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Insofar as we appreciate order, it is when we perceive it as being accompanied by complexity, when we feel that a variety of elements… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I like the values associated with a medical family - common sense, being practical but also thoughtful. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Anyone who urgently needs us deserves, in the true book of love, to be our friend.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“We can then recognize that we invented religions to serve two central needs which continue to this day and which secular society has not… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Half the ingratitude and complacency in the world down to how slowly and imperceptibly most good and bad things unfold.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“if you act (and dress) as if you have a fascinating inner life, you may soon find that you actually do—and that you feel… — Pamela Druckerman 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 comes from… — Kelly Carlin-McCall 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 thinks more… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“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 inner life,… — Durga Chew-Bose Copy Share Image
There were really funny characteristics about this guy [Richard Nixon], chief of which would be that he seemed to devote about 85 percent of… — Harry Shearer Copy Share Image
“We live in the most ‘connected’ time ever… yet loneliness is everywhere.” — Roche Uccello Copy Share Image
There is not a place to which the Christian can withdraw from the world, whether it be outwardly or in the sphere of the… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Teaching, like any truly human activity, emerges from one's inwardness, for better or worse. As I teach I project the condition of my soul… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
Art, when inspired with love, leads to higher realms. Love art and that art will open for you the inner life. — Meher Baba 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 huge personality,… — Robert Lopez Copy Share Image