Inner Self Quotes - Page 4

• I went to West Texas and started writing a cycle of Americana poems after the space conjured images that, as a child, I only saw on television-John Wayne, cowboys, borderlines. But suddenly, I felt close to these once-foreign imageries and wondered how I'd changed. Each evening brought the darkest skies in the country, and I understood the expansiveness of our inner selves. Ultimately nothing divides us except the worlds and words we allow.

  Nathalie Handal

  Country, Children, Writing

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• Man is not merely the sum of his masks. Behind the shifting face of personality is a hard nugget of self, a genetic gift.... The self is malleable but elastic, snapping back to its original shape like a rubber band. Mental illness is no myth, as some have claimed. It is a disturbance in our sense of possession of a stable inner self that survives its personae.

  Camille Paglia

  Men, Self, Personality

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.100, Vintage

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• Then, you also have that, we all have that sense of wanting to belong. We all have that road-rage, you can relate to that road-rage because you're so frustrated. The sense of frustration, the sense of getting caught, doing something wrong, all those are sort of universal emotions and you just have to make it specific to yourself and you channel this, I don't know what it is, but this inner self and then try to capture the vulnerability.

  Bostin Christopher

  Frustration, Self, Frustrated

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• There are free men with the spirit of a slave, and slaves whose spirit is full of freedom. He who is true to his inner self is a free man, while he whose entire life is merely a stage for what is good and beautiful in the eyes of others, is a slave.

  Abraham Isaac Kook

  Beautiful, Eye, Men

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• I think, myself, that one's memories represent those moments which, insignificant as they may seem, nevertheless represent the inner self and oneself as most really oneself.

  Agatha Christie

  Memories, Thinking, Self

  Agatha Christie (2010). “An Autobiography”, p.12, HarperCollins UK

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• One always, sooner or later, comes upon a city which is an image of one's inner cities. Fez is an image of my inner self. ... The layers of the city of Fez are like the layers and secrecies of the inner life. One needs a guide. ... There were in Fez, as in my life, streets which led nowhere, impasses which remained a mystery.

  Anais Nin

  Self, Cities, Needs

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• Have love for your inner Self and everything else is done for you.

  Amit Ray

  Self, Done, Lifestyle

  Amit Ray (2010). “Meditation: Insights and Inspiration”, p.33, INNER LIGHT PUBLISHERS

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• Every time a man rises from defeat, he becomes mentally and emotionally stronger. Thus, in time, one may actually find his self - his true, inner self - through temporary defeat.

  Napoleon Hill

  Men, Self, Temporary Defeat

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• I have always loved and avidly read the novels of Jack London, Jules Verne and Ernest Hemingway. The characters depicted in their books, who are brave and resourceful people embarking on exciting adventures, definitely shaped my inner self and nourished my love for the outdoors.

  Vladimir Putin

  Book, Adventure, Character

  "Vladimir Putin’s Reading List" by Ian Crouch, www.newyorker.com. May 24, 2011.

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• I think part of a beauty routine is how you feel and checking in with your inner self, and so I made that commitment to myself to do that.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Commitment, Thinking, Self

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• That girls should not marry for money we are all agreed. A lady who can sell herself for a title or an estate, for an income or aset of family diamonds, treats herself as a farmer treats his sheep and oxen--makes hardly more of herself, of her own inner self, in which are comprised a mind and soul, than the poor wretch of her own sex who earns her bread in the lowest state of degradation.

  Anthony Trollope

  Marriage, Girl, Money

  Anthony Trollope (2015). “Framley Parsonage”, p.247, Booklassic

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• There is a glorious pattern for every man's life, an individual, perfect patter. No two people are alike ... No two leaves are alike-no two snowstorms-no two sets of fingerprints. No two lives are alike, yet each life holds a divine pattern of unfoldment, a great and holy destiny, rich in achievement and honor. As you live true to the pattern of yourself, that deep, inner self, you will unfold as perfect, as joyous, as naturally beautiful as the tree will reach its full measure of fulfillment.

  Annalee Skarin

  Beautiful, Destiny, Men

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• The outer world is a reflection of our inner selves.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Reflection, Self, World

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• The satyagrahi general has to obey his inner voice, for over and above the situation outside he examines himself constantly and listens to the dictates of the inner self.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Self, Voice, Satyagraha

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Satyagraha (non-violent Resistance)”

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• What is God-given is called nature; to follow nature is called Tao (the Way); to cultivate the way is called culture. Before joy, anger, sadness and happiness are expressed, they are called the inner self; when they are expressed to the proper degree, they are called harmony. The inner self is the correct foundation of the world, and the harmony is the illustrious Way. When a man has achieved the inner self and harmony, the heaven and earth are orderly and the myriad of things are nourished and grow thereby.

  Confucius

  Sadness, Men, Self

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• You are meant to judge physical reality. You are meant to realize that it is a materialization of your thoughts and feelings and images, that the inner self forms that world. In your terms, you cannot be allowed to go into other dimensions until you have learned the great power of your thoughts and subjective feelings.

  Seth

  Reality, Self, Judging

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• On the other hand technology brings within your reach the great
  therapy of music; this activates the inner living cells of your
  body, stimulates the energy of the inner self and helps to unite
  the conscious mind with the other portions of your being.

  Seth

  Technology, Self, Cells

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• When our inner self connects to our work and our work to our inner self, the work knows no limit, for the inner self knows no limit.

  Matthew Fox

  Work, Self, Limits

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• [He] understood the people in a new way...The people is not everyone who speaks our language, nor yet the elect marked by the fiery stamp of genius. Not by birth, not by the work of one's hands, not by the wings of education is one elected into the people. But by one's inner self. Everyone forges his inner self year after year. One must try to temper, to cut, to polish one's soul so as to become a human being. And thereby become a tiny particle of one's own people.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Cutting, Self, Hands

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• They were the screams of riders torn apart by the twisted reflections of their own inner selves.

  Neal Shusterman

  Reflection, Self, Torn Apart

  Neal Shusterman (2012). “Full Tilt”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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• Yet each of us also carries another portrait with us, a picture far more important than any in our wallet. Psychologists have a name for it. They call that mental picture of ourselves, our self-image. ... there's always the person whose self-image is bent all out of shape, like a photo carried too long in a wallet.The good news of the tremendous worth we have in God's eyes can light up our inner self-portrait.

  Josh McDowell

  Eye, Light, Self

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• Books, I knew then and now, give body to our ideas and imaginations, make them flesh in the world; a bookstore is the city where our fleshed-out inner selves reside.

  Lewis Buzbee

  Book, Self, Cities

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• Far from wife and son am 1, far from land and wealth and other notions of that kind. I am the Witness, the Eternal, the Inner Self.

  Guru Nanak

  Son, Self, Land

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• The noonday devil of the Christian life is the temptation to lose the inner self while preserving the shell of edifying behavior. Suddenly I discover that I am ministering to AIDS victims to enhance my resume. I find I renounced ice cream for Lent to lose five excess pounds... I have fallen victim to what T.S. Eliot calls the greatest sin: to do the right thing for the wrong reason.

  Brennan Manning

  Christian, Ice Cream, Self

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• When he tries to extend his power over objects, those objects gain control of him. He who is controlled by objects loses possession of his inner self... Prisoners in the world of object, they have no choice but to submit to the demands of matter! They are pressed down and crushed by external forces: fashion, the market, events, public opinion. Never in a whole lifetime do they recover their right mind!... What a pity!

  Zhuangzi

  Fashion, Self, Choices

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