Inner Quotes

Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.

This life that has been given to us as a gift, as such a precious gift. To really try to understand it, really try to recognize it, is the greatest meditation. Through the media of this Knowledge we can tap into our inner sources that are so beautiful.

To me, Shakespeare uses the supernatural elements to reveal his character's inner desires and fears.

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.

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.

The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.

The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.

To exercise at or near capacity is the best way I know of reaching a true introspective state. If you do it right, it can open all kinds of inner doors.

My quest these days is to find my long lost inner child, but I'm afraid if I do, I'll end up with food in my hair and way too in love with the cats.

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.

I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It's a journey of recovery. It's a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It's already there.

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.

Any man who does not have his inner world to translate is not an artist.

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.

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.