Inner Life Quotes - Page 6

• Joshua chose the simple life ... because it gave him the freedom to expand the breadth of his inner life.

  Joseph Girzone

  Simple, Simplicity, Breadth

  Joseph F. Girzone (1997). “Joshua, the Journey Home: Includes Joshua, Joshua and the Children and Joshua in the Holy Land”, Arrowood Press

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• The relative ease of most driving lures us into thinking we can get away with doing other things. Indeed, those other things, like listening to the radio, can help when driving itself is threatening to cause fatigue. But we buy into the myth of multitasking with little actual knowledge of how much we can really add in or, as with the television news, how much we are missing. As the inner life of the driver begins to come into focus, it is becoming clear not only that distraction is the single biggest problem on the road but that we have little concept of just how distracted we are.

  Tom Vanderbilt

  Thinking, Focus, Missing

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• The constructive schizoid person stands against the spiritual emptiness of encroaching technology and does not let himself be emptied by it. He lives and works with the machine without becoming a machine. He finds it necessary to remain detached enough to get meaning from the experience, but in doing so, to protect his own inner life from impoverishment.

  Rollo May

  Spiritual, Technology, Becoming

  Rollo May (1969). “Love and will”

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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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• In [The New Poetry] I had attacked the British poets' nervous preference for gentility above all else, and their avoidance of the uncomfortable, destructive truths both of the inner life and of the present time.

  Al Alvarez

  Nervous, Poet, British

  Al Alvarez (2013). “The Savage God: A Study of Suicide”, p.40, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Genuine happiness can only be achieved when we transform our way of life from the unthinking pursuit of pleasure to one committed to enriching our inner lives, when we focus on 'being more' rather than simply having more.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Inspiring, Focus, Way

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• The realm of superstitions, fortune-telling, presentiments, intuition, dreams, all this is the inner life of a human being, and all this is the hardest thing to film.

  Krzysztof Kieslowski

  Dream, Intuition, Superstitions

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• I was very academically inclined. But my inner life was in such turmoil. I'd go home and my home life was so miserable that it just felt like I was doing everything that I was supposed to do. I did all my chores, made really good grades, and I was excelling at school, but I wasn't happy.

  Sonja Sohn

  Home, School, Miserable

  "Sonja Sohn ReWires Baltimore". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. March 15, 2012.

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• No vital Christianity is possible unless at least three aspects of it are developed. These are the inner life of devotion, the outer life of service, and the intellectual life of rationality.

  D. Elton Trueblood

  Christian, Intellectual, Three

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• Music is our myth of the inner life.

  Susanne Katherina Langer

  Music, Music Is, Myth

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• If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.

  Seamus Heaney

  Art, Ifs

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• It is the inner life that is to spark the change in consciousness that will permit us to advance

  Wayne Teasdale

  God, Sparks, Spirituality

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• Characterization requires a constant back-and-forth between the exterior events of the story and the inner life of the character.

  David Corbett

  Character, Events, Stories

  David Corbett (2013). “The Art of Character: Creating Memorable Characters for Fiction, Film, and TV”, p.41, Penguin

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• The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful... to get a surge of inner life or inner supply or unexpected sense of empowerment, to be afloat, to be out of yourself.

  Seamus Heaney

  Writing, Self, Empowerment

  "In their own words: literary giants who died this year" by Jess Sutcliffe, www.theguardian.com. December 28, 2013.

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• Painting has to get back to its original goal, examining the inner lives of human beings.

  Pierre Bonnard

  Goal, Painting, Humans

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• Sexual acts are one of the primary means by which we can act out our inarticulated inner lives.

  Sallie Tisdale

  Sex, Mean, Primaries

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• Some statements concern the conscious states of the animal, what he is to himself as an inner life; others concern his original and acquired ways of response, his behavior, what he is an outside observer

  Edward Thorndike

  Animal, Way, Behavior

  Edward Thorndike (2017). “Animal Intelligence: Experimental Studies”, p.23, Routledge

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• The inner life is the whole man, and forms all the worth of man.

  Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

  Men, Life Is, Form

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• Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action. Their acquisition obligates each man in some way to change his life, even if it is only his inner life. They demand to be stood for. They dictate where a man must concentrate his vision. They determine his moral and intellectual priorities. They provide him with allies and make him enemies. In short, ideas impose an interest in their ultimate fate which goes far beyond the realm of the merely reasonable.

  Midge Decter

  Powerful, Fate, Men

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• Reading civilized the inner life.

  Mason Cooley

  Reading, Civilized

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• Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.

  Gertrude Stein

  Audacity, Share, Skillful

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• If we want to grow as teachers -- we must do something alien to academic culture: we must talk to each other about our inner lives -- risky stuff in a profession that fears the personal and seeks safety in the technical, the distant, the abstract.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Teacher, Safety, Culture

  Parker J. Palmer (2017). “The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life”, p.48, John Wiley & Sons

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• There's a curious knot that binds novelists and terrorists...Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory. They make raids on human consciousness. What writers used to do before we were all incorporated.

  Don DeLillo

  Taken, Thinking, Years

  "Mao II". Book by Don DeLillo, 1991.

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• Everything about art has become problematic; its inner life, its relation to society, even its right to exist.

  Theodor Adorno

  Art, Relation

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• We need balance. We need to balance our inner life with our outer life. Nature is always sitting there waiting to help us but we have to do the work. Nature is probably the greatest teacher that we’ll ever have …the earth and nature.

  Dave Davies

  Teacher, Waiting, Balance

  "Dave Davies Interview: ‘Kinks’ guitar legend releases brilliant new music!". Interview with Ray Shasho, www.classicrockmusicwriter.com. June 26, 2013.

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