Inner Life Quotes

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

Henri Frederic Amiel

Attitude, Positive Thinking, Men

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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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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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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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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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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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Most true happiness comes from one's inner life, from the disposition of the mind and soul.

William L. Shirer

Soul, Mind, True Happiness

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Only in quietness do we possess our own minds and discover the resources of the Inner Life.

Helen Keller

Mind, Resources, Quietness

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In meeting again after a separation, acquaintances ask after our outward life, friends after our inner life.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Friendship, Separation, Acquaintance

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Inspirational, Life, Trust

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The unexamined life is not worth living.

Socrates

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

In Plato 'Apology' 38a

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The inner life must overcome the flesh or the flesh will overcome and destroy the inner life.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Overcoming, Flesh

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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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Only as we keep an open communication with our deep inner life will we have the wisdom to make effective choices.

Stephen Covey

Communication, Choices, Intuition

Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill (1995). “First Things First”, p.127, Simon and Schuster

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Be a good steward of your gifts. Protect your time. Feed your inner life. Avoid too much noise. Read good books, have good sentences in your ears. Be by yourself as often as you can. Walk. Take the phone off the hook. Work regular hours.

Jane Kenyon

Inspirational, Life, Time

Jane Kenyon, Anna Andreevna Akhmatova (1999). “A hundred white daffodils: essays, the Akhmatova translations, newspaper columns, notes, interviews, and one poem”, Graywolf Pr

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We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful. Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.

Mary Antin

Mom, Mother, Spiritual

Mary Antin (2013). “The Promised Land”, p.60, Courier Corporation

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We must have a strong inner life of fellowship and intimacy with Jesus if we are going to have a strong outer life of ministry

Timothy Keller

Jesus, Strong, Ministry

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Images adorn our inner life and carry great power there.

William Shirley

Great Power

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World power means nothing. Only the unsayable, jeweled inner life matters.

Rumi

Mean, World, Matter

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The man who can articulate the movements of his inner life need no longer be a victim of himself, but is able slowly and consistently to remove the obstacles that prevent the spirit from entering.

Henri Nouwen

Men, Needs, Entering

Henri Nouwen (2013). “The Wounded Healer: Ministry in Contemporary Society”, p.38, Image

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An inner life and inner enemies to conquer, battle and destroy. These enemies are the various desires that seek to distract our concentration by causing our thoughts to cling to outward things, things that will pass away.

Johan Oscar Smith

Life Changing, Enemy, Passing Away

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