Quotes About Inwardness

for we have found that by excluding we grow thin inside even though we may have an enormous bank account outside.

I don't have to go to church. The church is within me and the experience is my own. It's my life experience.

El alma no se ve en la cara ni en los ojos, porque cada cual esta recluido muy en el fondo de si mismo cuando se encuentra frente a desconocidos

He wasn't strong. He was weak. The weakest thing in the world. A man who lives only for himself

I always have been a private person. I like to be alone. When I was a little girl I used to listen to the radio and just be by myself.

Where there have been powerful governments, societies, religions, public opinions, in short wherever there has been tyranny, there the solitary philosopher has been hated; for philosophy offers an asylum to a man into which no tyranny can force it way, the inward cave, the labyrinth of the heart.

Enthusiastic people experience life from the inside out.

I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.

Een dovemansgesprek dat maakte dat ik mijn toevlucht weer zocht in mijn innerlijke monoloog. Het maakt hem geen moer uit hoe ik er aan toe ben. Ik kan bloed verliezen tot ik crepeer, ik kan het uitschreeuwen van de pijn, hij zal door blijven gaan.

I could just sit here, peacefully. I could withdraw. It's possible to go so far in, so far down and back, they could never get you out.

They mustn't know my despair, I can't let them see the wounds which they have caused.

One can know worlds one has not experienced, choose a response to life that has never been offered, create an inwardness utterly strong and fruitful.

If I am not pleased with myself, but should wish to be other than I am, why should I think highly of the influences which have made me what I am?

I am not invisible no matter how deeply I feel that I am.

am not invisible no matter how deeply I feel that I am.

O let me love my love unto myself alone, And know my knowledge to the world unknown, No witness to the vision call, Beholding, unbeheld of all...

If I have to be alone I want to be by myself.

I can do without anybody. I have my own soul: my own spark of divine fire.

She could hide in this small, dull life.

The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Everybody likes to go their own way–to choose their own time and manner of devotion.

The sight of one's own heart is degrading; people are not meant to look inward--that's why they've been give bodies, to hide their souls.

She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.

Entire universes flourish in my mind. Sometimes I get lost in there.