Quotes About Inner

The quickest way to experiencing the peace inside, is to learn to recognize when I am not at peace.

We need anarchy! It's time to revolt. Yes, anarchy! Not political anarchy, but inner anarchy, in which we topple, dethrone, defrock, kick out, and cast aside the current ruling ideas that are programmed inside us.

True and lasting motivation can't, unfortunately, come from outside. It must arise from a very deep place within us. This life-changing motivation verily forces its way out of us, demanding that we take action. That is the motivation that propels people to monumental acts of courage, willpower, perseverance, and, ultimately, change.

Earlier in my life I thought the things that mattered were the things that you could see, like your car, your house, your wealth, your property, your office. But as I've grown older I've become convinced that the things that matter most are the things that you can't see -- the love you share with others, your inner purpose, your comfort with who you are.

I'll have you know that inside of this body is a skinny woman yelling to escape, but I've quite successfully pacified her with Fritos.

within the souls of the awkward and the overlooked often burns something radiant.

ao contrário do que se pensa, a magia não é feita de fora, mas de dentro. Por isso é que se fala tanto na necessidade de ter fé para que as coisas aconteçam, pois a fé, afinal, não passa de uma maneira de ver o mundo que torna possíveis aquelas coisas que se deseja que aconteçam. A fé, portanto, é um conhecimento [...]

There's a Buddhist saying that peace is like a sun that's always shining in your heart. It's just hidden behind clouds of fear, doubt, worry, and desire that continually orient you toward the past or the future. The sun comes out only when you're in the present moment.

As Albert Camus put it: "In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

War within ourselves is always a prelude to war outside ourselves. All war starts within our own hearts. When our egos are inflated or our desires insatiable, we go to war with the other for the sad joy of maintaining our one-dimensional worlds.

Strength is one of those things you're supposed to have. You don't feel that you have it at the time you're going through it.

I have to find myself A place where I can breathe. That's where poetry lives In the oldest part of us.

The living always think that monsters roar and gnash their teeth. But I've seen that real monsters can be friendly; they can smile, and they can say please and thank you like everyone else. Real monsters can appear to be kind. Sometimes they can be inside us.

Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.

Her father told her she was pretty, but all fathers said that. Grandma Howard told her pretty on the outside didn't particularly matter. Pretty on the inside is what mattered to the good Lord.

Words of kindness had always been more difficult for me to handle than harsh reprimands. Ever since I had been quite young, I could resist those who went against me, had been able to deny their opinions. My inner strength came from an ability to handle, then separate myself from, adversity. Compassion, however, brought up more raw emotion than judgments could ever stir.

There are depths to the human soul that should not be fathomed.

There are forces in the world that we cannot see, and they are for good as well as for evil. And I sensed, with an inner certainty, that the forces of good were far more powerful than the forces of evil.

Als je Bach speelt, zei meneer De Leon, dan ruim je op van binnen, het wordt schoon in je hoofd. Elke dag moet je Bach spelen, je leven lang.

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

Instead of turning away from them (war conditions) in instinctive horror, as people seem to expect, the child may turn towards them with primitive excitement. The real danger is not that the child, caught up all innocently in the whirlpool of war, will be shocked into illness. The danger lies in the fact that the destruction ranging in the outer world may meet the very real aggressiveness ranging in the inside of the child

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all of the time.

The immense light. A state of inner emergency and waiting...This luminosity does not negate reason or any rational sense. It simply exists. A kind of poetic sensibility open to the world. To everything--grand and small.

Why would I care what you looked like? The flesh was the shell that housed the glory.