Quotes About Inner

People have so much pain inside them that they're not even aware of.

Do people ever make each other happy, Sid, or is happiness just something that's lurking there inside you all the time, waiting for the right moment to come out? Like worms in compost?

Ahí en el pecho, cerca de la garganta, ahí debe esta el alma.

Por lo general, los que defienden su tranquilidad, son los que están lejos de su propia furia.

One can't fight with oneself, for this battle has only one loser.

You cannot change other people, miss," Yvette would say. "You must change yourself inside first.

Only by discovering and loving the goddess lost within our rejected body can we hear our own authentic voice.

It's easy to be yourself in the dark.

Whereas Lelong's authority came from the status of ownership, Dior's came from an artist's inner certainty that his work was good.

one again, even if it was a painted smile. Sometimes a painted smile was the only one you had.

It has always been thus, that the mundane masks the magnificent in us.

Society's goal is to make us less foolish. From the cradle to grave the pressure is on: "Be normal!" Our inner fool may be shackled and caged by a world made to suppress it, but Jesus came to free the fool.

It makes you crazy, for something you know to be true, know from the very core or root of you, to remain unspeakable.

In order to change conditions outside ourselves, whether they concern the environment or relations with others, we must first change within ourselves.

When a dark age comes, hold the light inside.

But what the measured prose of psychiatrists and the carefully calculated statistics of social scientists rarely capture is the experience of inner struggle. These "significant changes" do not occur automatically. In fact, they must often fight against our resistance. In this sense, midlife is a drama more worthy of a playwright than a scholar. We are characters in the play, caught at the opening of the second act, and we do not know what will happen next.

The first step in finding the sane inside the crazy is to believe it's there.

Solitude is different from loneliness. Solitude is rich, inspiring, and restful; replete with space and possibility. Loneliness is empty, pathetic, and enervating; bereft of power and potential. Lonely people expect others to fill their inner void, whereas lovers of solitude—which is what I invite you to become on this journey—recognize that time alone is precious, a refuge where you can practice meeting yourself in the mirror of the blank page.

When external sources of power are sought in personal relationships to overcome inner feelings of powerlessness, power comes not from a place of strength but from a place of weakness. This can only lead to trouble. Using

People say you can't have peace without a war, but on the contrary they say they don't support war. You can not, ever achieve happiness from focusing on suffering, you have to change your perspective. World peace starts with Inner peace.

Conscience, man's moral medicine chest

Being funny is a symptom of what's underneath. You're pumping out all that energy because something else is going on inside you, some opposing force, something uncomfortable.

Sometimes he hated that voice in his brain, the one that slapped him upside the head anytime he got too stupid. Funny, it happened a lot with Sienna.

The complete teachings of all Buddhas - past, present, and future - are to be found within the essence of every human being.