Inner Quotes

3120 Inner quotes by 1647 unique authors

After a time I found that I could almost listen to the silence, which had a dimension all of its own. I started to attend… — Karen Armstrong
Earlier in my life I thought the things that mattered were the things that you could see, like your car, your house, your wealth, your… — Jimmy Carter
I was thinking, as I watched her, how little it mattered –about her teeth for instance. I know so many women who have kept all… — Willa Cather
I can tell you that solitude Is not all exaltation, inner space Where the soul breathes and work can be done. Solitude exposes the nerve,… — May Sarton
Without a revolution of the inner life, however slow, all our big designs are worthless. The work we have to do is with ourselves if… — Ian Mcewan
I love the way she projects two facets: a visible persona and a subterranean one. She keeps her thoughts to herself; she seems to suggest… — Francois Truffaut
His overriding life necessity was not love, it was his profession…He had come to medicine not by coincidence or calculation but by a deep inner… — Milan Kundera
Let us not underestimate how hard it is to be compassionate. Compassion is hard because it requires the inner disposition to go with others to… — Henri Nouwen
Concentrate on what you want to say to yourself and your friends. Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness. You say what you want… — Allen Ginsberg
Culture is an elevated expression of the inner voice which the different peoples of the Earth have heard in the depths of their being, a… — Daisaku Ikeda
How aware are we of our own inner life, our spirituality-something so intangible yet so priceless? How much effort do we make to perceive that… — Daisaku Ikeda
As a young man, I yearned for the day when, rooted in the experience that comes only with age, I could do my work fearlessly.… — Parker J. Palmer
And it dawned on me that I might have to change my inner thought patterns... that I would have to start believing in possibilities that… — Bob Dylan
I believe that what we get out of life is what we've set ourselves up to get, so there's no such thing as an inconsequential… — Megan McCafferty
It is not only my dreams, my belief is that all these dreams are yours as well. The only distinction between me and you is… — Werner Herzog
I want my inner truth to be the plumb line for the choices I make about my life - about the work that I do… — Parker J. Palmer
Idealism does not represent a superfluous expression of emotion, but in truth it has been, is, and will be, the premise for what we designate… — Adolf Hitler
When I leaned a little too close to the doorway, my inner voice piped up, telling me not to be stupid. The guy with the… — Kelley Armstrong
Ah, not to be cut off, not through the slightest partition shut out from the law of the stars. The inner -- what is it?… — Rainer Maria Rilke
As Carl Jung once said, 'When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.' When our boys become adults, we become… — Michael Gurian
A snowflake is probably quite unconscious of forming a crystal, but what it does may be worth study even if we are willing to leave… — Northrop Frye
I know the outer world as well as you do, and I judge it. You know nothing of my inner world, and yet you presume… — Aldous Huxley
But I'm not ready to stop listening to the screwed-up inner voice that's been ordering me around for a lifetime. My head thinks it can… — Mary Karr
Man has made remarkable strides in conquering outer space, but how futile have been his efforts in conquering inner space- the space in our hearts… — Thomas S. Monson
Something wonderful begins to happen with the simple realization that life, like an automobile, is driven from the inside out, not the other way around.… — Richard Carlson

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