Best Inner Life Quotes
150 Inner Life quotes by 123 unique authors
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The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful … to get a surge of inner life or inner supply or unexpected sense of empowerment, to…
— Seamus Heaney
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Some statements concern the conscious states of the animal, what he is to himself as an inner life; others concern his original and acquired ways…
— Edward Thorndike
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Empathy is the capacity to think and feel oneself into the inner life of another person.
— Heinz Kohut
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I wanted to live the inner life of every man I saw, look at the world through his eyes.
— Aleksandr Kuprin
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The inner life must overcome the flesh or the flesh will overcome and destroy the inner life.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Only through the medium of the public physical world can the mind of one person make a difference to the mind of another. The mind…
— Gilbert Ryle
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I've often thought that one of us is what we imagine, that each of us normalizes the terrible strangeness of inner life with a variety…
— Siri Hustvedt
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Why should physical processing give rise to a rich inner life at all? It seems objectively unreasonable that it should, and yet it does.
— David Chalmers
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I do feel there are countless people on earth who do not believe in the inner power, the inner life. They feel that the outer…
— Sri Chinmoy
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Education is a life; that life is sustained on ideas; ideas are of spiritual origin, and that we get them chiefly as we convey them…
— Charlotte Mason
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Images adorn our inner life and carry great power there.
— William Shirley
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The experience of helping a fellow man in danger, or even of training in a realistic manner to be ready to give this help, tends…
— Kurt Hahn
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Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action. Their acquisition obligates each man…
— Midge Decter
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The rise of community among cultures and religious traditions makes possible what we can call 'interspirituality': the assimilation of insights, values, and spiritual practices from…
— Wayne Teasdale
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Be a good steward of your gifts. Protect your time. Feed your inner life. Avoid too much noise. Read good books, have good sentences in…
— Jane Kenyon
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An observer can't tell if a person is silent and still because inner life has stalled or because inner life is transfixingly busy.
— Susanna Kaysen
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Only as we keep an open communication with our deep inner life will we have the wisdom to make effective choices.
— Stephen Covey
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Once in a while it vanishes - in the sense that I become deaf to beauty for a week or two or three. This coming…
— Adam Zagajewski
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Science has destroyed even the refuge of the inner life. What was once a sheltering haven has become a place of terror
— Carl Jung
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Self-confidence comes naturally when your inner life and your outer life are in harmony.
— Brian Tracy
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We are slaves of what we don't know;of what we know we are masters.Whatever vice or weakness in ourselves we discoverand understand its cause and…
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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And no book gives a deeper insight into the inner life of the Negro, his struggles and his aspirations, than, The Souls of Black Folk.
— Ray Stannard Baker
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Meditation helps me feel the shape, the texture of my inner life. Here, in the quiet, I can begin to taste what Buddhists would call…
— Wayne Muller
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A myth is a fantasy, a preferred lie, a foundational story, a hypnotic trance, an identity game, a virtual reality, one that can be either…
— Ginette Paris
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Writing down your thoughts is both necessary and harmful. It leads to eccentricity, narcissism, preserves what should be let go. On the other hand, these…
— Anna Kamienska
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