Quotes About Inwardness

All of us are private to ourselves. Nobody ever really knows anybody else. Everybody in the world keeps something to themselves.

She was looking for something I could never give her." Again his dark eyes bored into Julia's mind. "You have something of the same about you, young woman. Take my advice: Don't think you will find it in another person. You won't. It's not there. You must find it in yourself.

He will come to those who believe they need him least.

Perché bisogna portare con sé la propria vita come uno spettacolo effimero e invisibile agli altri?

i feel all red inside below my heart

She did not want to court further appraisal by asking anyone for anything.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be self-sufficient.

There may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.

I think I was cold in the womb.

There's an alone that calls out for rescue—but this appeared to be an alone that wanted to be left alone.

Hello," I said softly, one hand over the butterfly wings that beat inside me.

No one has to be taught to trust in themselves. No one has to be taught that what you experience inside yourself is more authoritative than what comes to you externally, even if it comes from God. Since the Fall, it has been part of our character to look within ourselves.

We are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason. But we cannot just walk into the cavern and look around. Most of what we think we know about our minds is pseudo-knowledge. We are all such shocking poseurs, so good at inflating the importance of what we think we value.

Why do I not seek some real good one which I could feel, not one which I could display?

There is in me, deep down, as there must be in everyone–at least, I hope there is, for I would not wish to be alone in this–a part that does not care for anything other than itself. I could lose everything and everyone and that pilot light would still be burning at my centre, that steady flame that nothing will quench, until the final quenching.

The unexamined life is not worth leading." I would add that the unexamined leader is not worth following.

I have learnt to enjoy my own company because I have lived alone many years.

I never get lonely; even as a child, I didn't.

I've always been a loner.

I'm a loner.

I'm a bit of a loner.

I wasn't merely remembering, it seemed to be trapped inside my eyelids.

What we focus on defines us, so if our focus is inward, on ourselves, we wind up defining for ourselves whether we are righteous or guilty. When we begin and end with us—with our self— we miss the heart of the gospel and never truly find the freedom for which we ache.

Então meu amado foi se fechando com seu cachimbo e seu Proust, solidão de bicho de caramujo, pode bater que não abro.