Quotes About Inner

front courtyard of his house. In an inner courtyard

You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering. ~ Ernest Hemingway

If you have a faith, if you've some deep conviction, whether you're a Nazi or a Communist or what the hell else you are then you can sacrifice yourself and others to your faith. But from the moment you've no faith from that moment you live in a deep inner confusion from then on you're exposed to what Strindberg calls 'the powers'.

I believe a human being carries his or her own holiness, which lies within the realm of the earth; there are no otherworldly explanations.

Por qué, al menos, no me es posible matar a Dios en mi interior? ¿Por qué prefiere vivir en mí de una forma tan dolorosa y humillante, puesto que yo le maldigo y desearía expulsarlo de mi corazón? ¿Sabes? Estoy a punto de llegar a una conclusión... Creo que Dios es una especie de realidad engañosa, de la cual los hombres como yo no podemos desprendernos

You must train your intuition - you must trust the small voice inside you which tells you exactly what to say, what to decide.

I was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn't shut up!

You can't lie to your soul.

Well-developed introverts can deal ably with the world around them when necessary, but they do their best work inside their heads, in reflection. Similarly well-developed extraverts can deal effectively with ideas, but they do their best work externally, in action.

A person's life consists of a collection of events, the last of which could also change the meaning of the whole, not because it counts more than the previous ones but because once they are included in a life, events are arranged in an order that is not chronological but, rather, corresponds to an inner architecture.

La fantasia è un posto dove ci piove dentro.

It is within you that the ghosts acquire voices.

Tutti abbiamo una ferita segreta per riscattare la quale combattiamo.

I don't know if you believe in the Spirit, sir. I believe in it. I believe in the dialogue that the Spirit conducts uninterruptedly with itself.

Would you like to be in his place, to establish that exclusive bond, that communion of inner rhythm that is achieved through a book's being read at the same time, by two people, as you thought possible with Ludmilla?

Your footsteps follow not what is outside the eyes, but what is within, buried, erased.

True religion, indeed, is that which does not have to be avowed in order to provide the solace that at times...if only rarely...you cannot do without.

When you need to be loved, you take love wherever you can find it. When you are desperate to be loved, feel love, know love, you seek out what you think love should look like. When you find love, or what you think love is, you will lie, kill, and steal to keep it. But learning about real love comes from within. It cannot be given. It cannot be taken away. It grows from your ability to re-create within yourself, the essence of loving experiences you have had in your life.

So many of us invest a fortune making ourselves look good to the world, yet inside we are falling apart. It's time to invest on the inside.

The secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always, rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy.

Putting on the spectacles of science in expectation of finding an answer to everything looked at signifies inner blindness.

Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be the stuff out there, but the stuff inside your head. It's going to be commercial and nasty at the same time.

We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.

Love that would] break open the hard shell of my lesser self.