Inner Life Quotes

Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That's part of what it means to be alive. But inside our heads - at least that's where I imagine it - there's a little room where we store those memories. A room like the stacks in this library. And to understand the workings of our own heart we have to keep on making new reference cards. We have to dust things off every once in awhile, let in fresh air, change the water in the flower vases. In other words, you'll live forever in your own private library.

~ Haruki Murakami

Later that day when I walked down this dried-out riverbed, enjoying the last rays of sunshine on my bare skin, I felt a deep inner peace coming up straight from my heart.

~ Nina Hrusa

Die wertvollste Reise ist die Reise zu unserem Selbst.

~ Nina Hrusa

From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other - above all for those upon whose smile and well-being our own happiness depends, and also for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day I realize how much my own outer and inner life is built upon the labors of my fellow men, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.

~ Albert Einstein

The strength of every individual is the grace for great work.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If I can get on to my sofa and occupy myself for four hours, at intervals through the day, scribbling my notes, and able to read the books that belong to me, in that they clarify the density, and shape the formless mass within, life seems inconceivably rich...

~ Alice James

You are one thing only. You are a Divine Being. An all-powerful Creator. You are a Deity in jeans and a t-shirt, and within you dwells the infinite wisdom of the ages and the sacred creative force of All that is, will be and ever was.

~ Anthon St. Maarten

Material things have closed boundaries; they are not accessible, cannot be penetrated, by things outside themselves. But one's existence as a spiritual being involves being and remaining oneself and at the same time admitting and transforming into oneself the reality of the world. No other material thing can be present in the space occupied by a house, a tree, or a fountain pen. But where there is mind, the totality of things has room; it is possible that in a single being the comprehensiveness of the whole universe may dwell.

~ Josef Pieper

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

~ Janey Colbourne

May you find the strength to courageously live through any situation.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The victory over our inner self is a daily struggle. Be strong and do not give up.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It's so strange how life works: You want something and you wait and wait and feel like it's taking forever to come. Then it happens and it's over and all you want to do is curl back up in that moment before things changed.

~ Lauren Oliver

It is only the Creator that can set thy soul free from every struggle.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

One of my relatives invented the sensory deprivation tank. Appropriately, most of my family has never seen or heard of him.

~ Ryan Lilly

When I first tried a sensory deprivation tank, people thought I had lost my mind. In fact, I had found it.

~ Ryan Lilly

The power within us is immeasurable strength.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Let there be no scales to weigh your un-known treasure,And seek not the depths of your knowledge with staff or sounding line.For self is a sea boundless and measureless.

~ Kahlil Gibran

What goes on inside isn't ever the same as what goes on outside.

~ Margaret Laurence

You ought to follow your inner voice.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

All children in those small-town, unhurried days had a vast inner life going on in the movies. Children were allowed to go without chaperone in the afternoons. My sense of making fictional comedy undoubtedly first caught its spark from the antic pantomime of the silent screen, and from having a kindred soul to laugh with.

~ Eudora Welty

Inner stillness is the key to outer strength.

~ Jared Brock

Take the time to slow down, relax, meditate, and contemplate the wonders within. You will discover an inner calm and balance that previously eluded you.

~ Joanne Madeline Moore

The good news is that you are never alone. If you are a man, you are always with your inner feminine side. If you are a woman, you are ways with your inner masculine side. However, we are often disconnected from those inner feminine or masculine qualities. Meditation helps to establish that much needed dialog and connection with your inner self. The more we get in touch with our inner self, the more we experience peace, harmony and bliss.

~ Vishwas Chavan

The light within us gives power for good actions.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Your inner light is greater than the darkness.May your light shine brightly in every path you travel.

~ Lailah Giftyakita

Everything she heard, everything she saw seemed to be in disagreement with her own manner of understanding and feeling. To her, the sun did not appear red enough, the nights pale enough, the skies deep enough. Her fleeting conception of things and beings condemned her fatally to a perversion of her senses, to vagaries of the spirit and left her nothing but the torment of an unachieved longing, the torture of unfulfilled desires.

~ Octave Mirbeau

When you're living so intensely in your head there isn't any different between what you imagine and what actually takes place. Therefore, you're both omnipotent and powerless.

~ Chris Kraus

...I also believe that introversion is my greatest strength. I have such a strong inner life that I’m never bored and only occasionally lonely. No matter what mayhem is happening around me, I know I can always turn inward.

~ Susan Cain

Self is a sea boundless and measureless.

~ Kahlil Gibran

...to know an other's interior life you are his confessor or a writer - the one is admitted freely, the other intrudes by discerning of spirits

~ John Geddes

Some of us will admit to a simple fascination with the inner world for its own sake, a fascination with no further goal than the thrill of discovery, the pleasure of engaging the mysterious, dark ground of our own nature.

~ Sandra Lee Dennis

What a huge inaccessible lumber-room of thought and experience we amounted to, I thought; how much we are, how little we transmit.

~ H.g. Wells

You are your master. Only you have the master keys to open the inner locks.

~ Amit Ray

The power of greatness lies within each of us.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

For years, copying other people, I tried to know myself.From within, I couldn't decide what to do.Unable to see, I heard my name being called.Then I walked outside.

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

The whole good cannot be had, it would seem, without mustering all the strength of our inner life. Even in the sphere of external possessions there are goods which inherently demand, if they are to be truly ours, far more of us than mere acquisition. 'My garden,' the rich man said; his gardener smiled.

~ Josef Pieper

Stories set the inner life into motion, and this is particularly important where the inner life is frightened, wedged, or cornered. Story greases the hoists and pulleys, it causes adrenaline to surge, shows us the way out, down, or up, and for our trouble, cuts for us fine wide doors in previously blank walls, openings that lead to the dreamland, that lead to love and learning, that lead us back to our own real lives as knowing wildish women.

~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés

The sight of the wall of water outside reassured me, giving me the idea that it made very little difference whether I stayed with her, or set out alone on my journey that had neither visible starting point nor destination. It didn't matter: since, however closely I became involved with another existence, my own world would always remain secret, inaccessible and shut-off; nobody would ever see me, except as a dim, changeable, wavering shadow, through its impenetrable, semi-opaque walls.

~ Anna Kavan

All you do is think. Because all you do is think, you've constructed two separate worlds—one inside your head and one outside. Just the fact that you tolerate this enormous dissonance—why, that's a great intangible failure already.

~ Sōseki Natsume

no man will survive who genuinely opposes you or any other crowd and prevents the occurrence of many unjust and illegal happenings in the city. A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time

~ Plato