Inner Life Quotes - Page 10

• To feel the meaning of what one is doing, and to rejoice in that meaning; to unite in one concurrent fact the unfolding of the inner life and the ordered development of material conditions--that is art.

  John Dewey

  Art, Development, Facts

  John Dewey (1977). “The Middle Works, 1899-1924”, p.292, SIU Press

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• Washington possessed the superb self-confidence that comes only to men whose inner life is faint, for the inner life is full of nameless doubts.

  William E. Woodward

  Self Confidence, Men, Life Is

  "George Washington: The Image and the Man".

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• I have quite a rich inner life, and I'm constantly looking for a way to express that. I haven't found it yet in acting. When you're playing a character, you're only going to find outlets for very specific parts of your inner world.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Character, Acting, World

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• Experiences, much more than instruction, are a seeing with the inner eye - finding a channel to our essential inner life, a door to our deepest understanding wherein we have the capacity for universal response.

  Lawren Harris

  Eye, Doors, Understanding

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• One of the weaknesses of much abstract painting is the attempt to substitute the inventions of the intellect for a pristine imaginative conception. The inner life of a human being is a vast and varied realm and does not concern itself alone with stimulating arrangements of color, form and design. The term 'life' as used in art is something not to be held in contempt, for it applies all of its existence, and the province of art is to react to it and not to shun it. Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again be great.

  Edward Hopper

  Art, Color, Design

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• Art when inspired with love leads to higher realms, and that art will open for you the inner life.

  Meher Baba

  Art, Inspired, Realms

  "The Answer: Conversations with Meher Baba".

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• I wish that Christmas may be happy and heavenly, and the holidays glow with the gifts of the inner life that God will give to each one.

  Janet Erskine Stuart

  Holiday, Giving, Wish

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• A painter, who finds no satisfaction in mere representation, however artistic, in his longing to express his inner life, cannot but envy the ease with which music, the most non-material of the arts today, achieves this end. He naturally seeks to apply the methods of music to his own art.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Inspiring, Art, Envy

  Wassily Kandinsky (2015). “Kandinsky”, p.59, Parkstone International

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• Like everything genuine, its inner life guarantees its truth. All works of art created by truthful minds without regard for the work's conventional exterior remain genuine for all times...

  Franz Marc

  Art, Mind, Guarantees

  "The 'Savages' of Germany". Der Blaue Reiter (Blue Rider) Almanak, Munich, 1912.

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• I know some very great writers, writers you love who write beautifully and have made a great deal of money, and not one of them sits down routinely feeling wildly enthusiastic and confident. Not one of them writes elegant first drafts. All right, one of them does, but we do not like her very much. We do not think that she has a rich inner life or that God likes her or can even stand her. (Although when I mentioned this to my priest friend Tom, he said that you can safely assume you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.)

  Anne Lamott

  Hate, Writing, Thinking

  "Bird by Bird". Book by Anne Lamott, 1994.

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• Above all, let us never forget that an act of goodness is in itself an act of happiness. It is the flower of a long inner life of joy and contentment; it tells of peaceful hours and days on the sunniest heights of our soul.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Flower, Long, Joy

  Maurice Maeterlinck (2015). “Wisdom and Destiny: Works of Maeterlinck”, p.35, 谷月社

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• Always trust yourself and your own feelings, as opposed to arguments and discussions. If it turns out that you are wrong, then the natural growth of your inner life will eventually guide you to other insights.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Trust, Feelings, Growth

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• Education is a life; that life is sustained on ideas; ideas are of spiritual origin, and that we get them chiefly as we convey them to one another. The duty of parents is to sustain a child's inner life with ideas as they sustain his body with food.

  Charlotte Mason

  Spiritual, Children, Ideas

  Charlotte Mason (2013). “The Original Home School Series”, p.303, Simon and Schuster

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• I do believe it is possible to create, even without ever writing a word or painting a picture, by simply molding one’s inner life. And that too is a deed.

  Etty Hillesum

  Believe, Creativity, Writing

  Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.318, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• If your inner life is not producing what you would like on the outside, don't be discouraged... just be willing to change.

  Joyce Meyer

  Life Is, Discouraged, Willing To Change

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