Best Inner Life Quotations
150 Inner Life quotes by 123 unique authors
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Infinite sharing is the law of God s inner life.
— Thomas Merton
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The only true hope for civilization-the conviction of the individual that his inner life can affect outward events and that, whether or not he does…
— Stephen Spender
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It is a miracle of harmony, of the adaptation of the free inner life to the outward necessity of things.
— John Crowe Ransom
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I was very academically inclined. But my inner life was in such turmoil. I'd go home and my home life was so miserable that it…
— Sonja Sohn
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Now, stopping thought is only the beginning. As Brahmananda, who was a disciple of Sri Ramakrishna, once remarked: The inner life begins with samadhi. This…
— Frederick Lenz
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I was raised by a single psychologist mother and we spent every evening sitting at the kitchen table and dissecting our emotions and speculating about…
— Annie Baker
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You make films to give people something, to transport them somewhere else, and it doesn't matter if you transport them to a world of intuition…
— Krzysztof Kieslowski
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The wilderness provides an environment for a child's inner life to develop because it requires him to be constantly aware of his surroundings.
— Leslie Stephen
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That powers my desire to write: the sense of how quickly everything on the surface of life can be cut away and you can suddenly…
— Nicole Krauss
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Use the freest goods for happiness... The stars cost nothing. Nature costs nothing. Your inner life costs nothing. God costs nothing. And yet they are…
— Robert Muller
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Holding onto and manipulating physical objects is one of the things we learn earliest and do the most. It should not be surprising that object…
— George Lakoff
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I made a decision that to me, photography had to be something that I could feel. I could feel in my stomach. I could not…
— Jacob Aue Sobol
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Joshua chose the simple life ... because it gave him the freedom to expand the breadth of his inner life.
— Joseph Girzone
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Spiritual stagnation ensues when man's environment becomes unpredictable or when his inner life is made wholly predictable.
— Eric Hoffer
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Always trust yourself and your own feelings, as opposed to arguments and discussions. If it turns out that you are wrong, then the natural growth…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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The man who has no inner life is a slave of his surroundings, as the barometer is the obedient servant of the air.
— Lisa Alther
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Inner life is Divine.
— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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One of the weaknesses of much abstract painting is the attempt to substitute the inventions of the intellect for a pristine imaginative conception. The inner…
— Edward Hopper
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Experiences, much more than instruction, are a seeing with the inner eye - finding a channel to our essential inner life, a door to our…
— Lawren Harris
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If we would accept heaven's life, we need by all means to live in the world and to participate in its duties and affairs. In…
— Emanuel Swedenborg
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The relative ease of most driving lures us into thinking we can get away with doing other things. Indeed, those other things, like listening to…
— Tom Vanderbilt
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All my novels are very much directly related to my inner life, even though I'm inventing characters, even though it's fiction, even though it's make-believe,…
— Paul Auster
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The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self.
— Charles Horton Cooley
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I think for everyone it's good to have your own personal work on a character and a film before you even start rehearsing, to have…
— Kirsten Dunst
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I've always had a process that I do before I even get to set or go to the location. I work privately, and it almost…
— Kirsten Dunst
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