Inner Quotes

As a good wine must be kept in a good cask, so a wholesome body is the proper foundation for a well-appointed inner ground.

But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.

I hope to God that the inner strength that will vindicate my deeds will in good time spring forth from my own people. I have done as I had to on the prompting of my inner voice.

Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.

You will live your life secure in that you are no longer manipulated by what other people want you to do and be, but are directed by your own inner desires.

Beauty is a radiance that originates from within and comes from inner security and strong character.

When you're writing you're constantly fighting demons to sit down and do what you do. If you listen to the voices outside your head, in addition to the ones inside your head, you'll never get anything done. There's enough inner strife.

That inner voice has both gentleness and clarity. So to get to authenticity, you really keep going down to the bone, to the honesty, and the inevitability of something.

The surprising thing about fatherhood was finding my inner mush. Now I want to share it with the world.

I'd pull my little brother on our motorcycle on an inner tube behind it. We would go fishing, we would hunt some, growing up.

Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.

Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

I get those fleeting, beautiful moments of inner peace and stillness - and then the other 23 hours and 45 minutes of the day, I'm a human trying to make it through in this world.

In particular what is most important to me is the transformation of a sound by slowing it down, sometimes extremely, so that the inner of sound becomes a conceivable rhythm.

I mean, when you grow up in the inner city and you grow up in a single-parent household, that's - those are humbling times, you know?

Everyone has a spirit that can be refined, a body that can be trained in some manner, a suitable path to follow. You are here to realize your inner divinity and manifest your innate enlightenment.

I wanted to live the inner life of every man I saw, look at the world through his eyes.

No great inner event befalls those who summon it not.

With Jackson there was quiet solitude. Just to sit and look at the landscape. An inner quietness. After dinner, to sit on the back porch and look at the light. No need for talking. For any kind of communication.

Ancient eschatological texts are actually maps of the inner territories of the psyche that seem to transcend race and culture and originate in the collective unconscious.

When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.

My inner critic who had begun piping up about how hopeless I was and how I didn't know to write.

When I have had such men before my camera my whole soul has endeavored to do its duty towards them in recording faithfully the greatness of the inner as well as the features of the outer man. The photograph thus taken has been almost the embodiment of a prayer.

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

Genuine happiness can only be achieved when we transform our way of life from the unthinking pursuit of pleasure to one committed to enriching our inner lives, when we focus on 'being more' rather than simply having more.

A radical inner transformation and rise to a new level of consciousness might be the only real hope we have in the current global crisis brought on by the dominance of the Western mechanistic paradigm.

It is a miracle of harmony, of the adaptation of the free inner life to the outward necessity of things.

If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off... no matter what they say.

Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again.

I think the idea that you know who your inner self is on a daily basis, because... you know. What's good for you 25 years ago may not be good for you now. So, to keep in touch with that, I think that's the first ingredient for success. Because if you're a successful human being, everything else is gravy, I think.