Interiors Quotes - Page 11

• Our real journey in life is interior; It is a matter of growth, deepening, and of an ever greater surrender to the creative action of love and grace in our hearts. Never was it more necessary to respond to that action.

  Thomas Merton

  Real, Heart, Journey

  Thomas Merton (1975). “The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton”, p.296, New Directions Publishing

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• I tell my students, with a feeling of pride that I hope they will share, that the carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen that make up ninety-nine per cent of our living substance were cooked in the deep interiors of earlier generations of dying stars. Gathered up from the ends of the universe, over billions of years, eventually they came to form, in part, the substance of our sun, its planets, and ourselves. Three billion years ago, life arose upon the earth. It is the only life in the solar system.

  George Wald

  Life, Stars, Science

  "American politics and its interpreters". Book by Louis C. Reichman and Barry J. Wishart (p. 80), 1971.

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• Future years will never know the seething hell and the black infernal background, the countless minor scenes and interiors of the secession war; and it is best they should not. The real war will never get in the books.

  Walt Whitman

  Memorial Day, Real, War

  Walt Whitman (2012). “Specimen Days & Collect”, p.80, Courier Corporation

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• What is the imagination? Only an arm or weapon of the interior energy; only the precursor of the reason.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Imagination, Energy, Arms

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.108, Harvard University Press

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• All our interior world is reality, and that, perhaps, more so than our apparent world.

  Marc Chagall

  Reality, Serenity, World

  Marc Chagall, Curt Valentin Gallery (New York), Curt Valentin Gallery (1952). “Marc Chagall, sculpture, ceramics, etchings for the fables of La Fontaine”

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• The only way to achieve something in the interior world is let-go - a kind of effortlessness, a relaxation. It is not a doing; it is nondoing. It is not action; it is inaction. And it seems difficult because everybody from the very beginning is told, `Do something; don`t just go on sitting there! Something is always better than nothing.` In the inner world these are not the laws. Nothing is better than everything.

  Rajneesh

  Letting Go, Law, Relaxation

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• The surroundings householders crave are glorified autobiographies ghost-written by willing architects and interior designers who, like their clients, want to show off.

  T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings

  Vanity, Want, Clients

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• Every jacket I make has interior pockets big enough to store a book and a sandwich and a passport.

  Rick Owens

  Fashion, Book, Pockets

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• There is a wealth of information built into us ... tucked away in the genetic material in every one of our cells ... without some means of access, there is no way even to begin to guess at the extent and quality of what is there. The psychedelic drugs allow exploration of this interior world, and insights into its nature.

  Alexander Shulgin

  Mean, Cells, Drug

  Alexander Shulgin, Ann Shulgin (1995). “Pihkal: A Chemical Love Story”

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• Make great account of your precious trials, both interior and exterior; it is thus that the garden of Jesus is adorned with flowers, that is, with acts of virtue.

  Paul of the Cross

  Jesus, Flower, Garden

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• I'm gonna go live in a cave, just completely live in my interior world.

  Tim Burton

  Being Alone, Creativity, Caves

  Tim Burton, Kristian Fraga (2005). “Tim Burton: Interviews”, p.36, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• All the powers of soul and body,memory, understanding, and will, interior and exterior senses, thedesires of spirit and of sense, all workin and by love.

  John of the Cross

  Life, Memories, Soul And Body

  St John of the Cross (2007). “A Spiritual Canticle of the Soul and the Bridegroom Christ”, p.221, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal but which the reader recognizes as his own.

  Salvatore Quasimodo

  Inspirational, Believe, Poetry

  Speech in New York, 13 May 1960, in New York Times 14 May 1960, p. 47

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• Rivers must have been the guides which conducted the footsteps of the first travelers. They are the constant lure, when they flow by our doors, to distant enterprise and adventure, and, by a natural impulse, the dwellers on their banks will at length accompany their currents to the lowlands of the globe, or explore at their invitation the interior of continents.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Adventure, Rivers, Doors

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.92, Penguin

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• Music is interior decoration.

  Wayne Shorter

  Music, Jazz, Decoration

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• In our own beginnings, we are formed out of the body's interior landscape. For a short while, our mothers' bodies are the boundaries and personal geography which are all that we know of the world...Once we no longer live beneath our mother's heart, it is the earth with which we form the same dependent relationship, relying...on its cycles and elements, helpless without its protective embrace.

  Louise Erdrich

  Mother, Appreciation, Heart

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• When I immersed myself in prayer and united myself with all the Masses that were being celebrated all over the world at that time, I implored God, for the sake of all these Holy Masses, to have mercy on the world and especially on poor sinners who were dying at that moment. At the same instant, I received an interior answer from God that a thousand souls had received grace through the prayerful mediation I had offered to God. We do not know the number of souls that is ours to save through our prayers and sacrifices; therefore, let us always pray for sinners.

  Mary Faustina Kowalska

  Prayer, Sacrifice, Numbers

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• The tongue is a small member, but it does big things. A religious who does not keep silence will never attain holiness; that is, she will never become a saint. Let her not delude herself - unless it is the Spirit of God who is speaking through her, for then she must not keep silent. But, in order to hear the voice of God, one has to have silence in one's soul and to keep silence; not a gloomy silence but an interior silence; that is to say, recollection in God.

  Mary Faustina Kowalska

  Religious, Voice, Order

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• A talkative soul lacks both the essential virtues and intimacy with God. A deeper interior life, one of gentle peace and of that silence where the Lord dwells, is quite out of the question. A soul that has never tasted the sweetness of inner silence is a restless spirit which disturbs the silence of others.

  Mary Faustina Kowalska

  Silence, Soul, Essentials

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• The great error of nearly all studies of war... has been to consider war as an episode in foreign policies, when it is an act of interior politics.

  Simone Weil

  Peace, War, Errors

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• One of the characteristics of love relationships that flower is a relatively high degree of mutual self-disclosure - a willingness to let our partner enter into the interior of our private world and a genuine interest in the private world of that partner. Couples in love tend to show more of themselves to each other than to any other person.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Couple, Flower, Love You

  Nathaniel Branden (2008). “The Psychology of Romantic Love: Romantic Love in an Anti-Romantic Age”, p.134, Penguin

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• Every being has its own interior, its self, its mystery, its numinous aspect. To deprive any being of this sacred quality is to disrupt the total order of the universe. Reverence will be total or it will not be at all. The universe does not come to us in pieces any more than a human individual stands before us with some part of his/her being.

  Thomas Berry

  Integrity, Self, Order

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• I clutched at the brow. The mice in my interior had now got up an informal dance and were buck-and-winging all over the place like a bunch of Nijinskys.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Bucks, Bunch, Brows

  P.G. Wodehouse (1989). “Aunts Omnibus”, Hutchinson

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• Interior decorating is a rock-hard science compared to psychology practiced by amateurs.

  Antonin Scalia

  Rocks, Psychology, Decorating

  Antonin Scalia (2012). “Scalia Dissents: Writings of the Supreme Court's Wittiest, Most Outspoken Justice”, p.141, Regnery Publishing

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• A journal of the 'subjective' kind I have always thought foolish, as nurturing a morbid self -consciousness in the writer; and yet, alone so much as I am, it is well to have some sort of a ventilator from the interior.

  Lucy Larcom

  Self, Kind, Consciousness

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