Inner Quotes
3120 Inner quotes by 1647 unique authors
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Facts, at any rate, could not be kept hidden. They could be tracked down by inquiry, they could be squeezed out of you by torture.…
— George Orwell
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Viscosity and velocity are opposites, yet they can look the same. Viscosity causes the stillness of disinclination, velocity causes the stillness of fascination. An observer…
— Susanna Kaysen
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Leap out the window, my inner Tigress cried. You aren't ready to face such a powerful Tiger. I frowned. I thought a true Tigress never…
— Gena Showalter
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The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only…
— Albert Einstein
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I do believe it is possible to create, even without ever writing a word or painting a picture, by simply molding one’s inner life. And…
— Etty Hillesum
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But I realized something. About art. And psychiatry. They're both self-perpetuating systems. Like religion. All three of them promise you a sense of inner worth…
— Samuel R. Delany
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The inner voice is something which cannot be described in words. But sometimes we have a positive feeling that something in us prompts us to…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other -…
— Albert Einstein
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I know some very great writers, writers you love who write beautifully and have made a great deal of money, and not one of them…
— Anne Lamott
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Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the…
— Emanuel Swedenborg
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The ear participates, and helps arrange marriages; the eye has already made love with what it sees. The eye knows pleasure, delights in the body's…
— Unknown Author
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I have found that the greatest degree of inner tranquility comes from the development of love and compassion. The more we care for the happiness…
— Dalai Lama
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All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.
— Eckhart Tolle
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The inner eye does not see upon command.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Hard times build determination and inner strength. Through them we can also come to appreciate the uselessness of anger. Instead of getting angry nurture a…
— Dalai Lama
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Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We all have the conviction,…
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
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All the things that truly matter, beauty, love, creativity, joy and inner peace arise from beyond the mind.
— Eckhart Tolle
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Once the inner connection is grasped, all theoretical belief in the permanent necessity of existing conditions collapses before their collapse in practice -- Letter to…
— Karl Marx
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Silence is the great teacher and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge,…
— Deepak Chopra
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A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Properly speaking, the unconscious is the real psychic; its inner nature is just as unknown to us as the reality of the external world, and…
— Sigmund Freud
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They were the screams of riders torn apart by the twisted reflections of their own inner selves.
— Neal Shusterman
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When our inner child is not nurtured and nourished, our minds gradually close to new ideas, unprofitable commitments and the surprises of the Spirit.
— Brennan Manning
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Whatever he says, let his inner resolution be not to bear whatever comes to him, but to bear it 'for a reasonable period'--and let the…
— C.S. Lewis
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To be lonely is to feel unwanted and unloved, and therefor unloveable. Loneliness is a taste of death. No wonder some people who are desperately…
— Jean Vanier
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