Interiors Quotes - Page 10

• The interior joy we feel when we have done a good deed is the nourishment the soul requires.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Joy, Soul, Done

  Albert Schweitzer (1979). “Reverence for Life”, p.81, Ardent Media

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• America's last pioneers, urban nomads in search of wide open interior spaces

  Cathleen McGuigan

  America, Space, Pioneers

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• The monk in hiding himself from the world becomes not less than himself, not less of a person, but more of a person, more truly and perfectly himself: for his personality and individuality are perfected in their true order, the spiritual, interior order.

  Thomas Merton

  Spiritual, Order, Personality

  Thomas Merton (1998). “The seven storey mountain”, Harcourt

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• I try to always go for something... very interior, following thoughts and memories, something that I think is difficult to do on the screen, which is essentially a third-person medium.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Memories, Thinking, Trying

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• The deeper interior you have the more you have in your llibrary.

  Jacqueline Bisset

  Deeper

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• When we are truly in this interior simplicity our whole appearance is franker, more natural. This true simplicity. . . makes us conscious of a certain openness, gentleness, innocence, gaiety, and serenity. O, how amiable this simplicity is! Who will give it to me? I leave all for this. It is the pearl of the Gospel.

  Francois Fenelon

  Giving, Simplicity, Serenity

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• The way the world works now, the way the rules of engagement operate, you can't claim to make sense out of the exterior without booking voyages into the interior. Think about it: How can you understand 'it' if you haven't made any effort to understand 'you'? Because what you're really doing is establishing a living, electrical, vital, energetic connection between it and you. You're creating both of them, simultaneously. A lot like quantum physics.

  Seth Godin

  Thinking, Self, Creating

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• I think that's what poetry does. It allows people to come together and identify with a common thing that is outside of themselves, but which they identify with from the interior.

  Diane Wakoski

  Thinking, People, Together

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• Almsgiving, according to the Gospel, is not mere philanthropy; rather it is a concrete expression of charity, a theological virtue that demands interior conversion to love of God and neighbor, in imitation of Jesus Christ, who, dying on the cross, gave his entire self for us.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Jesus, Self, Expression

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• As Bertrand Russell once wrote, two plus two is four even in the interior of the sun.

  Martin Gardner

  Writing, Science, Two

  Martin Gardner (2009). “When You Were a Tadpole and I Was a Fish: And Other Speculations About This and That”, p.124, Macmillan

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• The interior deprives men of their senses. Here, the eerie stillness of the wilderness and the darkness of night render the men both deaf and blind. Without eyes or ears, they have no frame of reference-and without a frame of reference, they have no clear identities.

  Joseph Conrad

  Eye, Night, Men

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• "Heaven" refers to the realm that is the interior part of a human being, and that the "divine self" is none other than the selfless light existing in our innermost depths.

  Masahisa Goi

  Light, Self, Heaven

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• An individual's harmony with his or her 'own deep self' requires not merely a journey to the interior but a harmonizing with the environmental world.

  James Hillman

  Journey, Self, Environmental

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• The essence of interior design will always be about people and how they live.

  Albert Hadley

  Essence, People, Design

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• No, painting is not interior decoration. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy.

  Pablo Picasso

  War, Enemy, Defense

  Hans Ludwig C. Jaffé, Pablo Picasso (1983). “Pablo Picasso”, Harry N. Abrams

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• I was in college, and very disappointed. I majored in commercial art and interior design for three or four years. At that time, it seemed the thing I really wanted to do, production design, just wasn't available in the U.K., so I turned to music.

  Eric Burdon

  Art, College, Years

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• A solitary traveler can sleep from state to state, from day to night, from day to day, in the long womb of its controlled interior. It is the cradle that never stops rocking after the lullaby is over. It is the biggest sleeping tablet in the world, and no one need ever swallow the pill, for it swallows them.

  Lisa St. Aubin de Terán

  Travel, Sleep, Night

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• I'm fascinated by furniture design and interiors, and I want to try designing all that stuff.

  Prabal Gurung

  Design, Trying, Want

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• I love old architecture. I love collecting furniture, mixing really earthy things with the very polished. I don't come from an interiors background, so I'm not an expert. I just enjoy going to antiques shows and finding interesting things.

  Jason Wu

  Interesting, Mixing, Experts

  "Jason Wu Makes His Move into Home". Interview with Anne Monoky, www.architecturaldigest.com. October 31, 2011.

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• If we grew our own food, we wouldn't waste a third of it as we do today. If we made our own tables and chairs, we wouldn't throw them out the moment we changed the interior decor. If we had to clean our own drinking water, we probably wouldn't contaminate it.

  Mark Boyle

  Drinking, Tables And Chairs, Water

  "My year of living without money" by Mark Boyle, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 2009.

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• There is no reader so parochial as the one who reads none but this morning's books. Books are not rolls, to be devoured only when they are hot and fresh. A good book retains its interior heat and will warm a generation yet unborn.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Morning, Book, Hot

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• Strive with all your might to bring your interior activity into accord with God, and you will overcome exterior passions.

  Arsenius the Great

  Christian, Passion, Overcoming

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• In your school you take part in various activities that habituate you not to shut yourselves in on yourselves or in your small world, but to be open to others, especially to the poorest and neediest, to work to improve the world in which we live. Be men and women with others and for others, real champions in the service of others. To be magnanimous with interior liberty and a spirit of service, spiritual formation is necessary. Dear children, dear youths, love Jesus Christ ever more!

  Pope Francis

  Spiritual, Jesus, Children

  Pope Francis during meeting with Students of Jesuit Schools, zenit.org. June 7, 2013.

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• Meditation is that dimension of science which focuses on creating the right kind of interior, so that you can live a peaceful and joyous life.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Yoga, Creating

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• Whenever our interior life becomes caught up in its own interests and concerns, there is no longer room for
  others, no place for the poor.

  Pope Francis

  Rooms, Poor, Caught

  Pope Francis (2016). “Care for Creation: A Call for Ecological Conversion”, p.77, Orbis Books

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