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Quotes About Inwardness

I'm very secretive about my feelings, very shy.
~ Fran Kirby
The lack of a personal core is at the base of such men, the inability to support doubt in any form, the fear of facing themselves...
~ Peter Ustinov
My interest lies in my self-expression - what's inside of me - not what I'm in.
~ John Turturro
Leisure draws its vitality from affirmation. It is not the same as non-activity, nor is it identical with tranquility; it is not even the same as inward tranquility. Rather, it is like the tranquil silence of lovers, which draws its strength from concord.
~ Josef Pieper
All the gods, all the heavens, all the worlds, are within us.
~ Joseph Campbell
Yet she belongs, finally and truly, only to God. The hijab is a symbol of freedom from the male regard, but also, in our time, of freedom from subjugation by the iron fist of materialism, deterministic science, and the death of meaning. It denotes softness, otherness, inwardness. She is not only caught in a world of power relations, but she inhabits a world of love and sacrifice. This freedom, which is of the conscience, is hers to exercise as she will.
~ Abdal Hakim Murad
Here it is: the new way of living with the world inside of us so we cannot lose it, and we cannot be lost.
~ Ada Limón
It's okay if you can't make sense of that. I've tried and tried, but I can't grasp it, either. The most vital things we hide even from ourselves.
~ Adam Johnson
10. You have to deal with stuff on your own and that's all there is to it.
~ Adam Rapp
Kadang-kadang saya merasa sangat terisolasi. Saya hidup di dunia saya sendiri, dan hal ini seperti berada di pengasingan. Saya tidak tahu apakah orang masih ingin tahu apa yang sebenarnya saya pikirkan.
~ Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Poems On Love Love adorns itself; it seeks to prove inward joy by outward beauty. Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom. Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it. Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Put out my eyes, and I can see you still; slam my ears to, and I can hear you yet; and without any feet can go to you; and tongueless, I can conjure you at will. Break off my arms, I shall take hold of you and grasp you with my heart as with a hand; arrest my heart, my brain will beat as true; and if you set this brain of mine afire, upon my blood I then will carry you.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
keep growing quietly and seriously throughout your whole development; you cannot disturb it more rudely than by looking outward and expecting from outside replies to questions that only your inmost feeling in your
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
The written word, obviously, is very inward, and when we're reading, we're thinking. It's a sort of spiritual, meditative activity. When we're looking at visual objects, I think our eyes are obviously directed outward, so there's not as much reflective time. And it's the reflectiveness and the spiritual inwardness about reading that appeals to me.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
It's not about outward appearances but inward significance.
~ Donna Tartt
They don't know what it's like. Inside. For them it's only fun, even though I tell them it isn't. You see I don't delete. Anything. Ever.
~ Alan Garner
I've always been self-conscious about my personality.
~ Alessia Cara
world inside myself is vaster and richer than this paltry plane, peopled with mere galaxies and gods,
~ Rachel Hartman
Nothing existed outside ourselves and school. For us, the world of politics, social revolution, the war in Vietnam never happened.
~ Rachel Klein
I've never been interested in the event when I'm the center of attention.
~ Helmut Lang
I want to tell people to read 'The Prince' by Machiavelli - check that one out. It's just changed my attack so - I think so much more inwardly.
~ Chance The Rapper
Wir sind anderen ja auch nur zumutbar, wenn wir auch allein mit uns selbst zurechtkommen.
~ Reinhold Messner
inside this prison he lived in freedom
~ René Barjavel
He composed himself inwardly. Sparing the world his awkwardness, hiding vulnerability. Preserving his pride.
~ Julie Anne Long