Quotes About Inner

In the deepest heart of all of us there is a corner in which the ultimate mystery of things works sadly.

One needs the inner strength which comes with the conscious presence of a personal God. If those who are thus fortified sometimes yield to temptation, how helpless and hopeless must those be who rely upon their own strength alone!

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

One never knows the potential within the human breast.

The demons that plague you are patient horrors. You may think that you've dealt with them, driven them out with logic, put them to rest with prayer, but they're never really gone. They're always with you. And why? Because they're not things separate from you. They are you.

In every human being there are two wolves constantly battling. One is love and the other is fear. The wolf that wins the battle is the one you feed. Always the one you feed.

Dear old Uncle Skulky, man, is the impossibly mad relative we all have sleeping in our souls.

Omnia mea mecum porto, all that is mine I carry with me.

We were, all of us, prisoners of our character, unable to alter our true inner natures. When we said we had changed, what had only really changed was our luck. Put us in the same circumstances as our previous folly and suddenly we'd revert, all of us, to what we were. That's what I believed

it is easier to hide your fear when you're afraid all the time.

The first big thing suffering does is it drags you deeper into yourself.

The inner struggle against one's own weaknesses is the central drama of life.

But if we are truly happy inside, then age brings with it a maturity, a depth, and a power that only magnifies our radiance.

She thought a smile that eventually touched her lips.

La vida tiene una dimensión interior, con historias que no se materializan en la realidad, pero que no por ello dejamos de vivir.

Le sommeil est le seul endroit où elle semble être à l'abri d'elle-même.

para llegar al centro del corazón se requiere descubrir, observar y aceptar todas nuestras penas y lamentos

Spiritual disciplines should always be means to spiritual ends, never ends in themselves. They are places of meeting God that do not have value in and of themselves. To treat them as if they did is to develop a spirituality that is external, self-energized and legalistic. Genuine Christian spirituality places the priority on inner transformation, not outward routines.

It's as if the endless labour of achieving consensus maska a constant inner violence - or, it might perhaps be better to say, is in fact the process by which that inner violence is measured and contained - and it is precisely this, and the resulting tangle of moral contradiction, which is the primal fornt of social creativity.

Perchè il coraggio,secondo lei,è assecondare i desideri della propria anima

had no conviction. I had no foundation. My game changed from day to day, lesson to lesson. It seemed I had been looking everywhere but within. I thought about

That's what the voices in your head are for, to get you through the silent parts.

Yeah, there's stuff that really good fiction can do that other forms of art can't do as well. And the big thing, the big thing seems to be, sort of leapin' over that wall of self, and portraying inner experience. And setting up, I think, a kind of intimate conversation between two consciences.

So these things happen, deep in our lives. We do not speak of them. We hide them even from ourselves, but they do not leave us.