Skip to content

Inner life Quote by Lenore Skenazy

Download Open image

““Your mind is wandering, desperately trying to keep itself amused. It's not crazy, says therapist Cineas; it could just be a way to occupy yourself. We all have an active inner life: we're busy making remarks, silently snorting, and imagining scenarios.””

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (6 ratings)

Inner life Life Psychology

More by Lenore Skenazy

“We want our children to have a childhood that's magical and enriched, but I'll bet that your best childhood memories involve something you were…

Image

We have to learn to remind the other parents who think we're being careless when we loosen our grip that we are actually trying…

Image

You don't remember the times your dad held your handle bars. You remember the day he let go.

Image

A child who thinks he can't do anything on his own eventually can't.

Image

Who's crazy: people who trust other people, or people who don't?

Image

The Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued reams of playground regulations and actually gone so far as to recommend against "tripping hazards, like tree…

Image

Explore all 7 Lenore Skenazy quotes

More Inner life quotes

“if you act (and dress) as if you have a fascinating inner life, you may soon find that you actually do—and that you feel…

Pamela Druckerman

Image

For me, psychology and art interact and overlap in so many ways. Psychology is the study of the inner life and creativity comes from…

Kelly Carlin-McCall

Image

World power means nothing. Only the unsayable, jeweled inner life matters.

Image

The problem of education is twofold: first to know, and then to utter. Everyone who lives any semblance of an inner life thinks more…

Robert Louis Stevenson

Image

“A woman carries her inner life—lugs it around or holds it in like fumes that both poison and bless her—while nourishing another’s inner life,…

Durga Chew-Bose

Image

Music is our myth of the inner life.

Susanne Katherina Langer

Image

There were really funny characteristics about this guy [Richard Nixon], chief of which would be that he seemed to devote about 85 percent of…

Image

“We live in the most ‘connected’ time ever… yet loneliness is everywhere.”

Image

There is not a place to which the Christian can withdraw from the world, whether it be outwardly or in the sphere of the…

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Image

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…

Parker J. Palmer

Image

Art, when inspired with love, leads to higher realms. Love art and that art will open for you the inner life.

Image

I thought it would be really cool to show the world the inner life of someone like me, who doesn't have a huge personality,…

Image

Browse all 442 Inner life quotes