Quotes About Inner

Living through enough, we all come to this understanding, though it is difficult to accept: No matter what path we choose to honor, there will always be conflict to negotiate. If we choose to avoid all conflict with others, we will eventually breed a poisonous conflict within ourselves. Likewise, if we manage to attend our inner lives, who we are will — sooner or later — create some discord with those who would rather have us be something else.

Because we must meet the outer world with our inner world or existence will crush us. It is a spiritual law, as real as gravity. If we don't assume our space as living beings, the rest of life will fill us completely the way water fills a hole.

A writer must learn to trust the process; the words and ideas will flow from some deep inner recess once the writing has begun.

Where is privacy, if not in the mind?

Las personas que no sienten ninguna emoción sufren de frialdad emocional, de atrofia interior. De ellas no brota ni una brizna de vitalidad, y tampoco dinamismo alguno.

Goodness comes from within. Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.

I knew myself incapable of writing a line of a novel – by then I had written three or four – however long released from duty. Whatever inner processes are required for writing novels, so far as I myself was concerned, war now utterly inhibited. That was one of the many disagreeable aspects of war. It was not only physically inescapable, but morally inescapable too.

Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action." —ORISON SWETT MARDEN

The greatest success is not on the stage of the world. It is in the deepest recesses of your own heart.

The reality is, if we are being honest with ourselves, we all make emotional decisions about our investments. We are all emotional creatures, and even the best traders in the world are always fighting the inner fear.

The unlimited power that lies sleeping within you, let it slumber no more.

I should give such advice myself, knowing that a friend may give counsel as to outer things, but that a man must satisfy his inner conscience by his own perceptions of what is right and what is wrong.

If she were born a gentlewoman! And then came to her mind those curious questions; what makes a gentleman? what makes a gentlewoman? What is the inner reality, the spiritualised quintessence of that privilege in the world which men call rank, which forces the thousands and hundreds of thousands to bow down before the few elect? What gives, or can give it, or should give it?

If he should wish it, she would make no difficulty of parting with the things around her. Of what concern were the prettinesses of life to one whose inner soul was hampered with such ugliness?

When we speak the word "life," it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Postoji u meni nešto užasno, što raste i što ne poti?e od mene samog, ve? iz mrakova koje nosim u sebi, što poti?e odande gde ?ovekova duša ne zna gde po?inje a gde se završava njegovo Ja, niti šta ga je nateralo da zapo?ne onako kako misli da je zapo?eo.

To confront the metaphysics I have created for myself, in accordance with the void I carry within me.

Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.

Again, it is for the sake of the soul that goods external and goods of the body are eligible at all, and all wise men ought to choose them for the sake of the soul, and not the soul for the sake of them.

The Life of God in the Soul of Man.

There are strange red depths in the soul of the most commonplace man.

There are instincts which are deeper than reason. — Arthur Conan Doyle, from "The Nightmare Room," Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle . (Delphi Classics; 6 edition May 13, 2011)

We never know where our courage is coming from.

Little Natalie, never rest until you have uncovered your essential self. Remember that. Somewhere, deep inside you, hidden by all sorts of fears and worries and petty little thoughts, is a clean pure being made of radiant colors.