Bird Quote by Gautama Buddha

The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings. His passions are mere appearances, being sterile. They…

— Emile Durkheim

“What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is lead in his head, and…

— Mark Twain

The man who can articulate the movements of his inner life need no longer be a victim of himself, but is able slowly and…

— Henri Nouwen

Person who fills his inner emptiness with positive opinions of surrounding people is like a person who has to eat hay because of starvation.

— Ilkin Santak

“On into the void he flies, unafraid. There is nothing in mere absence that can cow him. Or loneliness. Or the lack of maps…

— Mike Carey

“He lived within himself, nourished by his own substance, like some torpid creature which hibernates in caves. Solitude had reacted upon his brain like…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

For when the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through places without water, seeking rest; and not finding. . .

— Bruno of Cologne

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

He that condemns himself to compose on a stated day will often bring to his task attention dissipated, a memory embarrassed, an imagination overwhelmed,…

— Samuel Johnson

“His strides are the only evidence he exists, and so he wanders, lost in a city that he has always called home. Our creased…

— Krishna Udayasankar

As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in…

— Erich Fromm

“Bathed in light, submerged in sound and rapt in feeling, the sentient body, at once both perceiver and producer, traces the paths of the…

— Tim Ingold