Inner Life Quotes
150 quotes by 126 authors
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Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit,…
— Mary Antin
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Teaching, like any truly human activity, emerges from one's inwardness, for better or worse. As I teach I project the condition of my soul onto…
— Parker J. Palmer
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There is a stream, a succession of states, or waves, or fields (or whatever you please to call them), of knowledge, of feeling, of desire,…
— William James
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Doing nothing for others is the undoing of one's self. We must be purposely kind and generous, or we miss the best part of existence.…
— Horace Mann
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Art enlarges experience by admitting us to the inner life of others.
— Walter Lippmann
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The advance of scientific knowledge does not seem to make either our universe or our inner life in it any less mysterious.
— John B. S. Haldane
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In meeting again after a separation, acquaintances ask after our outward life, friends after our inner life.
— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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Most true happiness comes from one's inner life, from the disposition of the mind and soul.
— William L. Shirer
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Most true happiness comes from one's inner life, from the disposition of the mind and soul. Admittedly, a good inner life is difficult to achieve,…
— William L. Shirer
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Whatever results you're getting, be they rich or poor, good or bad, positive or negative, always remember that your outer world is simply a reflection…
— T. Harv Eker
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One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidden, private life of ordinary people; and on…
— Victor Hugo
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The brain immediately confronts us with its great complexity. The human brain weighs only three to four pounds but contains about 100 billion neurons. Although…
— Gerald Fischbach
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If the inner life of our fashionable women were known, how few would deserve the title of lady!
— James Merrick
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He who floats with the current, who does not guide himself according to higher principles, who has no ideal, no convictions-such a man is .…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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An inner life and inner enemies to conquer, battle and destroy. These enemies are the various desires that seek to distract our concentration by causing…
— Johan Oscar Smith
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The strongest wish of a vast number of earnest men and women to-day is for a basis of religious belief which shall rest, not upon…
— William Ralph Inge
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I love a natural look in pictures. I like people with a feeling one way or another — it shows an inner life. I like…
— Marilyn Monroe
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We cannot segregate the human heart from the environment outside us and say that once one of these is reformed everything will be improved. Man…
— Shoghi Effendi
Who Wrote These Inner Life Quotes
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