Quotes About Inner

To increase the zone of peace is to build the inner core of a stable international zone.

Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action.

Never does a man know the force that is in him till some mighty affection or grief has humanized the soul.

He had come to that time in his life (it varies for every man) when a human being gives himself over to his demon or to his genius, according to a mysterious law which orders him either to destroy or to surpass himself.

Men show their superiority inside; animals, outside.

Anxiety is fear of one's self.

Reading, like prayer, remains one of our few private acts.

Choice of attention, to pay attention to this and ignore that, is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer.

Conscience reigns but it does not govern.

Conscience is a sacred sanctuary where God alone may enter as judge.

The soft whispers of the God in man.

Courage is a quietness, not martial music made Born of facing up to life, even when afraid.

Choice of attention ... 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.

A torch-light procession marching down your throat.

None but yourself who are your greatest foe.

Our passions are ourselves.

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will have it if they cannot find it.

Back of tranquility lies always captured unhappiness.

I think the inner person is the most important. ... I would like to see an invention that keeps the mind alert. That's what is important.

I don't think that... one gets a flash of happiness once, and never again; it is there within you, and it will come as certainly as death.

It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Trust your intuitive heart.

There is a secret person undamaged in every individual.

For seasons and seasons and seasons all our movement has been going against our self, a journey into our killer's desire.