Inner Quotes

3120 Inner quotes by 1647 unique authors

Inch by inch I conquered the inner terrain I was born with. Bit by bit I reclaimed the swamp in which I'd languished. I gave… — Fernando Pessoa
My rapier wit hides my inner pain. — Cassandra Clare
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it. — Mahatma Gandhi
And that is how we are. By strength of will we cut off our inner intuitive knowledge from admitted consciousness. This causes a state of… — D. H. Lawrence
The heart is the inner face of your life. The human journey strives to make this inner face beautiful. It is here that love gathers… — John O'Donohue
If you try to view yourself through the lenses that others offer you, all you will see are distortions; your own light and beauty will… — John O'Donohue
Our clients' faces, with the customary outward paleness and inner glow of the book lover. — Diane Setterfield
When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such… — Sigmund Freud
The human spirit glows from that small inner light of doubt whether we are right, while those who believe with certainty that they possess the… — Saul Alinsky
Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as a temple of… — George Eliot
Most timidities have such secret compensations and Miss Bart was discerning enough to know that the inner vanity is generally in proportion to the outer… — Edith Wharton
What's agitating about solitude is the inner voice telling you that you should be mated to somebody, that solitude is a mistake. The inner voice… — Charles Baxter
The contemplation of beauty, whether it be a uniquely tinted sunset, a radiant face, or a work of art, makes us glance back unwittingly at… — Vladimir Nabokov
We need limitations and temptations to open our inner selves, dispel our ignorance, tear off disguises, throw down old idols, and destroy false standards. Only… — Helen Keller
The truth of Zen, just a little bit of it, is what turns one's humdrum life, a life of monotonous, uninspiring commonplaceness, into one of… — Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it. If we're frantic, life will be frantic. If we're peaceful, life will… — Marianne Williamson
In the construction of houses, choice of woods is made. Straight un-knotted timber of good appearance is used for the revealed pillars, straight timber with… — Miyamoto Musashi
If she were religious, she would call it the soul. It is more than the sum of her intellect and her emotions, more than the… — Michael Cunningham
We can be hindered in our development and our personal growth by political conditions. Outer circumstances can constrain us. Only when we are free to… — Jostein Gaarder
Even if I seemed to remember, I could not know. For just to remember something is not to know if it really happened. That is… — Joyce Carol Oates
When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop… — Dalai Lama
Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words. — Unknown Author
A quiet mind is all you need. All else will happen rightly, once your mind is quiet. As the sun on rising makes the world… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Inner peace is the key: if you have inner peace, the external problems do not affect your deep sense of peace and tranquility...without this inner… — Dalai Lama
Even the most subjected person has moments of rage and resentment so intense that they respond, they act against. There is an inner uprising that… — Bell Hooks

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