Inner Quotes

3120 Inner quotes by 1647 unique authors

World peace must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just mere absence of violence. Peace is, I think, the manifestation of human compassion. — Dalai Lama
The outward manifestations of an inner combustion are never very directed. — Nick Hornby
Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner life. — C.D. Wright
I would like to achieve a state of inner spiritual grace from which I could function and give as I was meant to in the… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
I didn't know the inner me was hungry," I said to Art. "That's because it already starved to death. — Joe Hill
Mr Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. He liked thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart, liverslices… — James Joyce
The necessary thing is after all but this; solitude, great inner solitude. Going into oneself for hours meeting no one - this one must be… — Rainer Maria Rilke
I became so frustrated with visiting inner-city schools (in America) that I just stopped going. The sense that you need to learn just isn't there.… — Oprah Winfrey
Occasionally some individuals let the seeming ordinariness of life dampen their spirits. Though actually coping and growning, others lack the quiet, inner-soul satisfaction that can… — Neal A. Maxwell
...I want first of all - in fact, as an end to these other desires - to be at peace with myself. I want a… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
If our body is a perfect expression of our thought about body, and if our thought about body is that it’s condition has everything to… — Richard Bach
Win by losing. Before your outer walls break, as break they must, build an inner place to protect your truth. Protect that you are infinite… — Richard Bach
But once an idea for a novel seizes a writer...well, it’s like an inner fire that at first warms you and makes you feel good… — Dean Koontz
Some split between the inner world and outer world is common to all behaviour, and the need to bridge the gap is the source of… — Anthony Storr
If only the scientific experts could come up with something to get it out of our minds. One cup of fixit fizzle that will lift… — Robert Fulghum
I don't want to be a man," said Jace. "I want to be an angst-ridden teenager who can't confront his own inner demons and takes… — Cassandra Clare
Greedhas no satiation point, since its consummation does not fill the inner emptiness, boredom, loneliness, and depression it is meant to overcome. — Erich Fromm
The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to be harmoniously related to his inner state...Men do not attract that which they… — James Allen
From the union of power and money, from the union of power and secrecy, from the union of government and science, from the union of… — Wendell Berry
The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses. — Edith SÃ¶dergran
Gaze into the fire, into the clouds, and as soon as the inner voices begin to speak... surrender to them. Don't ask first whether it's… — Hermann Hesse
The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting… — Marcel Duchamp
By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive. Impart as much as you can of your spiritual… — Albert Schweitzer
The public school system is not about educating black children. Never has been. Inner-city schools are about social control. Period. They’re operated as holding pens—miniature… — Barack Obama
...for it is the fate of a woman Long to be patient and silent, to wait like a ghost that is speechless, Till some questioning… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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