Inner Quotes

3120 Inner quotes by 1647 unique authors

They’re not hideous,” said Tessa. Will blinked at her. “What?” “Gideon and Gabriel,” said Tessa. “They’re really quite good-looking, not hideous at all.” “I spoke,”… — Cassandra Clare
I've always been an ironic dreamer, unfaithful to my inner promises. Like a complete outsider, a casual observer of whom I thought I was, I've… — Fernando Pessoa
I wonder now whether inner coldness and desolation may not be the pre-condition for making the world believe, by a kind of fraudulent showmanship, that… — W G Sebald
Yes, she is in love with him, and yes, in spite of his qualms and inner hesitations, he loves her back, however improbable that might… — Paul Auster
Advice to young writers? Always the same advice: learn to trust our own judgment, learn inner independence, learn to trust that time will sort the… — Doris Lessing
[He] understood the people in a new way...The people is not everyone who speaks our language, nor yet the elect marked by the fiery stamp… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
When it seems humanly impossible to do more in a difficult situation, surrender yourself to the inner silence and thereafter wait for a sign of… — Paul Brunton
But there were too many points at which the other self could invade the self he wanted to preserve, and there were too many forms… — Patricia Highsmith
An enlightened man had but one duty - to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope his way forward, no matter… — Hermann Hesse
Yanking his inner manwhore back to the land of polite conversating, he forced his hands to stop — J R Ward
His cheeks were slick with tears that spilled over his diamond eyes, a ceaseless flow he neither noticed nor appeared to care about. And she… — J R Ward
...you find your genius by looking in the mirror of your life. Your visible image shows your inner truth, so when you're estimating others, what… — James Hillman
...[Y]ou have an inner strength that makes it possible for you to do things other people couldn't even begin to think of doing. — Terry Brooks
The beauty you see in me is a reflection of you. — Vanna Bonta
Just as a painter needs light in order to put the finishing touches to his picture, so I need an inner light, which I feel… — Leo Tolstoy
The noonday devil of the Christian life is the temptation to lose the inner self while preserving the shell of edifying behavior. Suddenly I discover… — Brennan Manning
Not to be able to stop thinking is a dreadful affliction, but we don't realize this because almost everyone is suffering from it, so it… — Eckhart Tolle
The gospel is not a doctrine of the tongue, but of life. It cannot be grasped by reason and memory only, but it is fully… — John Calvin
If only everyone could know and live with their inner craziness. Would the world be a worse place for it? No, people would be fairer… — Paulo Coelho
The story of the Zen Master whose only response was always "Is that so?" shows the good that comes through inner nonresistance to events, that… — Eckhart Tolle
The most wonderful of all things in life is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a growing depth, beauty and… — Hugh Walpole
But then there are the van Goghs and Hemingways and Mozarts, those who feel a hunger so deep, so far down, that greatness lies there… — Deb Caletti
Right, you've got a crooked sort of cross..." He consulted Unfogging the Future. "That means you're going to have 'trials and suffering' — sorry about… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
The movement of the heart as we practice generosity in the outer world mirrors the movement of the heart when we let go of conditioned… — Sharon Salzberg
Actions are not impostions on who we are, but are expressions of who we are. They come out of our heart and the inner realities… — Dallas Willard

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