Inner Life Quotes

The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Attitude, Positive Thinking, Men

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Approach your own inner life with a loving quality that accepts who you are without trying to change who you are.

Laozi

Taoism, Trying, Quality

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In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

Albert Schweitzer

Inspirational, Motivational, Friendship

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And no book gives a deeper insight into the inner life of the Negro, his struggles and his aspirations, than, The Souls of Black Folk.

Ray Stannard Baker

Book, Struggle, Giving

Ray Stannard Baker (1908). “Following the Color Line: An Account of Negro Citizenship in the American Democracy”

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Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.

Steve Jobs

Love, Inspirational, Life

Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

Steve Jobs

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

Golda Meir

Motivational, Happiness, Happy

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Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

Steve Jobs

Graduation, Heart, Stanford University

Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.

Golda Meir

Inspirational, Life, Change

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Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking.

Steve Jobs

Inspirational, Life, Graduation

Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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The unexamined life is not worth living.

Socrates

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

In Plato 'Apology' 38a

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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

"P.S. I Love You: When Mom Wrote, She Always Saved the Best for Last". Book by H. Jackson Brown, Jr., March 1, 1991.

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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Inspirational, Life, Trust

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Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet.

Lewis Mumford

Life, Aggravation, Sacred

Lewis Mumford (2016). “The Culture of Cities”, p.38, Open Road Media

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There is a stream, a succession of states, or waves, or fields (or whatever you please to call them), of knowledge, of feeling, of desire, of deliberation, etc., that constantly pass and repass, and that constitute our inner life.

William James

Educational, Philosophy, Feelings

William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.20, Nuvision Pubns

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Women are certainly more happy in this than we men: their employments occupy a smaller portion of their thoughts, and the earnest longing of the heart, the beautiful inner life of the fancy, always commands the greater part.

Friedrich Schleiermacher

Beautiful, Work, Heart

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Art enlarges experience by admitting us to the inner life of others.

Walter Lippmann

Art, Admitting, Lives Of Others

Walter Lippmann (1914). “A Preface to Politics”

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Even if I seemed to remember, I could not know. For just to remember something is not to know if it really happened. That is a primary fact of the inner life, the most difficult fact with which we must live.

Joyce Carol Oates

Remember Something, Facts, Difficult

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And if I were to ask myself from what literature we who have been nurtured almost exclusively on the thoughts of Greeks and Romans, and of the Semitic race, the Jewish, may draw the corrective which is most wanted in order to make our inner life more perfect, more comprehensive, more universal, in fact more truly human a life... again I should point to India.

Max Muller

Race, Order, Perfect

Max Muller (1999). “India: What Can it Teach Us?”, p.24, Book Tree

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Every person must live the inner life in one form or another. Consciously or unconsciously, voluntarily or involuntarily, the inner world will claim us and exact its dues. If we go to that realm consciously, it is by our inner work: our prayers, meditations, dream work, ceremonies, and Active Imagination. If we try to ignore the inner world, as most of us do, the unconscious will find its way into our lives through pathology: our psychosomatic symptoms, compulsions, depressions, and neuroses.

Robert A. Johnson

Dream, Prayer, Imagination

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The landscape is a reflection of the inner life. Since I can't shoot the inner life, all I can shoot is the exterior but I know that when I'm filming outside, I'm filming inside. I can only really touch the inside through the mise-en-scene. So through the mise-en-scene of the outside we can explore the inside

Bruno Dumont

Reflection, Landscape, Scene

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For it is the fate of a woman Long to be patient and silent, to wait like a ghost that is speechless, Till some questioning voice dissolves the spell of its silence. Hence is the inner life of so many suffering women Sunless and silent and deep, like subterranean rivers Runnng through caverns of darkness.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Fate, Voice, Rivers

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1992). “Favorite Poems”, p.48, Courier Corporation

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It is astonishing, how many difficulties clear up without any effort when the inner life gets straightened out. If half the time we spend trying to fix up outward things were spent in getting our hearts right, we would be delighted with the result. Strange as it may seem, harmony within our hearts depends mostly upon our getting into harmony with God.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Heart, Effort, Trying

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Nothing reveals more about the inner life of a people than their arts.

Diane Ackerman

Art, People

Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses”, p.7, Vintage

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Spiritual stagnation ensues when man's environment becomes unpredictable or when his inner life is made wholly predictable.

Eric Hoffer

Spiritual, Men, Society

Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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