Inner Life Quotes
I wanted to live the inner life of every man I saw, look at the world through his eyes.
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 the inner life of everyone we knew.
The advance of scientific knowledge does not seem to make either our universe or our inner life in it any less mysterious.
Only as we keep an open communication with our deep inner life will we have the wisdom to make effective choices.
If your outer life is really a reflection of the quality of your inner life, then it's a brilliant move to spend at least an hour a day working on yourself.
Cultivating quietness is a missing discipline today...the quietness needed to nurture an inner life hid in Christ.
As an experienced artist, I carry my work like a secret pregnancy. I am always aware of inner life and the need to protect it.
It's a young country and a German only feels comfortable being with the masses. They have very little talent at creating an inner life, privacy. And I think there must be something wrong.
What if we were to take seriously the possibility that our students have a rich and authoritative inner life and tried to nourish it rather than negate it?
Washington possessed the superb self-confidence that comes only to men whose inner life is faint, for the inner life is full of nameless doubts.
Before entering the seminary, I had not encountered the life-changing potential of reading as a source of meaning, as a way of ordering one's inner life, and being rooted in the world.
The inner life must overcome the flesh or the flesh will overcome and destroy the inner life.
There are certain people that you don't have to even work at extracting their inner life. It is just there and they're happy to share it with you.
Fiction is risky for writers also in that the process of making certain books, of shaping certain narratives, leaves scars and marks on your inner life.
To persevere is always a reflection of the state of one's inner life, one's philosophy and one's perspective
There are moments when the inner life actually 'pays,' when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.
Spiritual stagnation ensues when man's environment becomes unpredictable or when his inner life is made wholly predictable.
Poetry is the inner life of a culture, its nervous system, its deepest way of imagining the world. A culture that ignores its poets, chokes off its nervous system and becomes mortally ill.
If you can understand the inner life, then you can wear the uniform, the tattoos, or whatnot and realize that the things that are different about us become superficial.
All writers are autobiographical to a degree and writing about the nature of their inner life. My inner life has always been a struggle between my conception of myself and the world versus reality.
As we unfold spiritually, the reality of our inner life enters new dimensions and we must change with it.
The man who can articulate the movements of his inner life need no longer be a victim of himself, but is able slowly and consistently to remove the obstacles that prevent the spirit from entering.
If the inner life of our fashionable women were known, how few would deserve the title of lady!
when I first began this diary I said I would give a record of my inner life. I begin to wonder if I have said anything about my inner life. What if I have no inner life?
A visual experience is vitalizing. Whereas to write great poetry, to draw continuously on one's inner life, is not merely exhausting, it is to keep alight a consuming fire.
Conventional nudes based on classical originals could bear no burden of thought or inner life without losing their formal completeness.
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 an inner life.
The wilderness provides an environment for a child's inner life to develop because it requires him to be constantly aware of his surroundings.
I hope that people who don't live with animals will appreciate that each animal is a unique individual with a rich inner life.
I love a natural look in pictures. I like people with a feeling one way or another - it shows an inner life. I like to see that there’s something going on inside them.
The problem of education is twofold: first to know, and then to utter. Everyone who lives any semblance of an inner life thinks more nobly and profoundly than he speaks.
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 of convenient fictions.
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 so he is responsible for them.
Later that day when I walked down this dried-out riverbed, enjoying the last rays of sunshine on my bare skin, I felt a deep inner peace coming up straight from my heart.
The entire world above you, around you, beneath you, and beside you, is insignificant in comparison to the world within you.
Inner stillness is the key to outer strength.
The victory over our inner self is a daily struggle. Be strong and do not give up.