Quotes About Inner

What does this world need: gifted men and women, outwardly empowered? Or individuals who are broken, inwardly transformed?

It is a high distinction for a homely woman to be loved for her character rather than for beauty.

I don't know anyone who doesn't have an empty spot at the center of him, which must be filled in order to be really happy. That spot, like it or not, is reserved for God.

It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle.

No man was ever ruined from without; the final ruin comes from within, when you turn hopeless and lose courage!

Modern man is battered by the fundamental forces of his own psyche.

What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.

The Principle which gives life dwells in us, and without us, is undying and beneficent, is not heard or seen or smelt, but it is perceived by the man who desires perception.

Intuition is soul guidance, appearing naturally in man during those instants when his mind is calm.

All men contain several men inside them, and most of us bounce from one self to another without ever knowing who we are.

Godliness is the fragrance of the man who has attained enlightenment.

Silence is the eternal duty of man.

Conscience is a man's compass.

The state of sleep is a state of freedom in which man is not occupied with the manipulation of the outside world.

The bad man is continually at war with, and in opposition to, himself.

"Are you a devil?" "I am a man," answered Father Brown gravely; "and therefore have all devils in my heart."

That is the best baptism that leaves the man cleanest inside.

Every man has his thorns, not of him, but in him, deep as bones.

The conscience is the sacred haven of the liberty of man.

Every man has a coward and hero in his soul.

Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.

The heart of man is the place the devil dwells in; I feel sometimes a hell within myself.

A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.

Paradise for a happy man lies in his own good nature.