Inner Quotes

3120 Inner quotes by 1647 unique authors

Metta is the ability to embrace all parts of ourselves, as well as all parts of the world. Practicing metta illuminates our inner integrity because… — Sharon Salzberg
Being active every day makes it easier to hear that inner voice. — Haruki Murakami
Werewolves? Oh please, just plain stupid. Who wants to get it on with a man ruled by his inner dog? — Karen Marie Moning
We don’t constrain our mental powers when we store new long-term memories. We strengthen them. With each expansion of our memory comes an enlargement of… — Nicholas G. Carr
The degree to which a surviving parent copes is the most important indicator of the child's long-term adaptation. Kids whose surviving parents are unable to… — Hope Edelman
Our culture made a virtue of living only as extroverts. We discouraged the inner journey, the quest for a center. So we lost our center… — Anais Nin
Listening to the music while stretching her body close to its limit, she was able to attain a mysterious calm. She was simultaneously the torturer… — Haruki Murakami
...I also believe that introversion is my greatest strength. I have such a strong inner life that I’m never bored and only occasionally lonely. No… — Susan Cain
The geographical pilgrimage is the symbolic acting out an inner journey. The inner journey is the interpolation of the meanings and signs of the outer… — Thomas Merton
She felt a stealing sense of fatigue as she walked; the sparkle had died out of her, and the taste of life was stale on… — Edith Wharton
You need your Inner Eye tested, if you ask me. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
But now I wonder--what if everyone is pretty much the same and it's just a thousand small choices that add up to the person you… — Holly Black
It was about a girl who helps an ugly old woman who turns out to be a good fairy in disguise. Inner values versus shallow… — Connie Willis
If we hear, in our inner ear, a voice saying we are failures, we are losers, we will never amount to anything, this is the… — Donald Miller
If we want to grow as teachers -- we must do something alien to academic culture: we must talk to each other about our inner… — Parker J. Palmer
Is yours an honest lament? ... Most are not, you know. Most self-imposed burdens are founded on misperceptions. We - at least we of sincere… — R A Salvatore
Because my mouth Is wide with laughter And my throat Is deep with song, You do not think I suffer after I have held my… — Langston Hughes
All I’ve ever done is dream. That, and only that, has been the meaning of my existence. The only thing I’ve ever really cared about… — Fernando Pessoa
From an early age she had developed the art of being alone and generally preferred her own company to anyone else’s. She read books at… — Sebastian Faulks
The leftist is anti-individualistic... He is not the sort of person who has an inner sense of confidence in his own ability to solve his… — Theodore Kaczynski
There is something deeply hypocritical in a society that holds an inner-city child only eight years old "accountable" for her performance on a high-stakes standardized… — Jonathan Kozol
[in the true mad north] of introspection, where 'falcons of the inner eye' dive and die, glimpsing in their dying fall, all life's memory of… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti
She smiled then, an adorable, sweet smile that took his breath away. He forgot all about trying to maintain an air of civility. His inner… — Maya Banks
The director’s task is to recreate life, its movement, its contradictions, its dynamic and conflicts. It is his duty to reveal every iota of the… — Andrei Tarkovsky
The inner throne of man is both what the kingdom of Christ and the kingdom of Lucifer are after. And when this throne is yielded… — Eric Ludy

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