Inner Quotes

3120 Inner quotes by 1647 unique authors

Even though conditions such as lack of sleep, insufficient food and various mental stresses may suggest that the inmates were bound to react in certain… — Viktor E. Frankl
Like a sculptor, if necessary, carve a friend out of stone. Realize that your inner sight is blind and try to see a treasure in… — Unknown Author
Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not. — Eckhart Tolle
Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in its spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or… — Viktor E. Frankl
Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace. — Robert J. Sawyer
One of the basic points is kindness. With kindness, with love and compassion, with his feeling that is the essence of brotherhood, sisterhood, one will… — Dalai Lama
When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways--either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the… — Dalai Lama
Spirituality is not to be learned by flight from the world, or by running away from things, or by turning solitary and going apart from… — Meister Eckhart
Worst of all, the inner vault is guarded by a live dragon, attended by fifty naked women armed with poisoned spears, each of them sworn… — Scott Lynch
They's a heap more to God's will than death, disapoint-ment, and like thet. Hit's God's will for us to be good and do good, love… — Olive Ann Burns
The thought is not something that observes an inner event, but, rather it is this inner event itself. We do not reflect on something, but,… — Robert Musil
Books that teach us to dance: There are writers who, by portraying the impossible as possible, and by speaking of morality and genius as if… — Friedrich Nietzsche
We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life.… — William James
Run and become. Become and run. Run to succeed in the outer world. Become to proceed in the inner world. — Sri Chinmoy
Unoka went into an inner room and soon returned with a small wooden disc containing a kola nut, some alligator pepper and a lump of… — Chinua Achebe
No, Paul, I couldn't care less if you tell me made-up stories. Our lies reveal as much about us as our truths.' (Said to Paul… — J M Coetzee
There are things about ourselves that we need to get rid of; there are things we need to change. But at the same time, we… — Benjamin Hoff
When you write your first novel you don't really know what you're doing. There may be writers out there who are brilliant, incisive and in… — Robin McKinley
A writer with her work needs to be like a dog with a bone all the time. She needs to know where she's hidden it.… — Dani Shapiro
... one of those librarians who rules the stacks with an intimidating scowl, whispers quiet sharply enough to lacerate the tender inner tissues of the… — Dean Koontz
One must learn an inner solitude, wherever one may be. — Meister Eckhart
We are not accustomed to thinking that God's will for us and our own inner dreams can coincide. — Julia Cameron
At school, new ideas are thrust at you every day. Out in the world, you'll have to find your inner motivation to seek for new… — Bill Watterson
It's funny: I always imagined when I was a kid that adults had some kind of inner toolbox full of shiny tools: the saw of… — Anne Lamott
The very impulse to write springs from an inner chaos crying for order - for meaning. — Arthur Miller

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