Interiors Quotes - Page 19

• Freedom is a need of the soul, and nothing else. It is in striving toward God that the soul strives continually after a condition of freedom. God alone is the inciter and guarantor of freedom. He is the only guarantor. External freedom is only an aspect of interior freedom. Political freedom, as the Western world has known it, is only a political reading of the Bible. Religion and freedom are indivisible. Without freedom the soul dies. Without the soul there is no justification for freedom. Necessity is the only ultimate justification known to the mind.

  Whittaker Chambers

  Reading, Political, Soul

  Whittaker Chambers (2014). “Witness”, p.28, Regnery Publishing

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• And what is the problem? It is the old problem of the anxious searcher - the mythic in the interior castle, the poet-pilgrim in a dark wood not sure how to proceed. Which way is the right way?

  Paul Elie

  Dark, Castles, Woods

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• Man forms himself in his own interior, and nowhere else.

  Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

  Men, Solitude, Form

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• Blue is therefore most suitable as the color of interior life.

  William H. Gass

  Blue, Color, Suitable

  William H. Gass (2014). “On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry”, p.75, New York Review of Books

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• The root of prayer is interior silence.

  Thomas Keating

  Prayer, Roots, Silence

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• To think well is to serve God in the interior court.

  Thomas Traherne

  Thinking, Court, Serving God

  Thomas Traherne (2010). “Centuries of Meditations”, p.7, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The wall of silence in the Interior Ministry, which protects those who are widely believed to have ordered this and similar crimes, remains intact.

  Garry Robbins

  Wall, Silence, Ministry

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• I appreciate our government's determination to investigate the circumstances surrounding the death of the Bytyqi brothers, which Serbia's Interior Minister has rightly called 'an exceptionally serious crime,' and hope the Serbian government's pledge of full cooperation... is matched by a final accounting of their murder.

  John McCain

  Determination, Brother, Government

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• The murderers of the three Bytyqi brothers, New York residents who were executed by Serbian Ministry of Interior personnel in 1999, have never been prosecuted. The U.S. government cannot accept that the murderers of three of its citizens go unpunished.

  Michael Kirby

  Brother, New York, Government

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• What we're doing is making sure that we have a safe and secure border region from San Diego all the way to Brownsville. And that means manpower, it means technology, it means infrastructure, it means interior enforcement. All, you know, kind of layered in appropriate ways, and making sure, like I said before, the border is safe and secure.

  Janet Napolitano

  Mean, Technology, Borders

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• I'm no interior decorator, but just I have a feeling that plastic plants in the bathroom... probably not a good idea.

  Kyan Douglas

  Ideas, Feelings, Bathroom

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Suffering, I was beginning to think, was essential to a good life, and as inextricable from such a life as bliss. It’s a great enhancer. It might last a minute, but eventually it subsides, and when it does, something else takes its place, and maybe that thing is a great space. For happiness. Each time I encountered suffering, I believed that I grew, and further defined my capacities – not just my physical ones, but my interior ones as well, for contentment, friendship, or any other human experience.

  Lance Armstrong

  Life, Thinking, Space

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• [P]rogress, however, has not sufficiently infiltrated the Interior Ministry, affording protection to those who participated in the Bytyqi murders and other egregious Milosevic-era crimes.

  Avis Bohlen

  Ministry, Eras, Murder

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• Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience.

  Steven Bochco

  Stories, Television, Film

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• To me, every hour of the light and dark is a miracle, every inch of space is a miracle, every square yard of the surface of the earth is spread with the same, every cubic foot of the interior swarms with the same; every spear of grass-the frames, limbs, organs, of men and women, and all that concerns them, all these to me are unspeakably perfect miracles.

  Walt Whitman

  Dark, Men, Squares

  Walt Whitman (2004). “Whitman: The Mystic Poets”, p.96, SkyLight Paths Publishing

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• I believe in mysticism, with an interior goal,
  and you are your own temple
  and your own priest.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Believe, Goal, Temples

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• An interior designer must be able to clarify his intent keeping ever in mind that decorating is not a look, it's a point of view.

  Albert Hadley

  Views, Design, Mind

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• The sky lay over the city like a map showing the strata of things and the big full moon toppled over in a furrow like the abandoned wheel of a gun carriage on a sunset field of battle and the shadows walked like cats and I looked into the white and ghostly interior of things and thought of you and I looked on their structural outsides and thought of you and was lonesome.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Sunset, Cat, Gun

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• We all have an ongoing narrative inside our heads, the narrative that is spoken aloud if a friend asks a question. That narrative feels deeply natural to me. We also hang on to scraps of dialogue. Our memories don’t usually serve us up whole scenes complete with dialogue. So I suppose I’m saying that I like to work from what a character is likely to remember, from a more interior place.

  Lydia Davis

  Memories, Character, Ongoing

  "Lydia Davis: I am simply not interested, at this point, in creating narrative scenes between characters". Interview with Sarah Manguso, www.believermag.com. January, 2008.

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• One of the most important-and most neglected-elements in the beginning of the interior life is the ability to respond to reality, to see the value and the beauty in ordinary things, to come alive to the splendour that is all around us.

  Thomas Merton

  Beauty, Reality, Important

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.33, Shambhala Publications

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• Our thought should not merely be an answer to what someone else has just said. Or what someone else might have said. Our interior world must be more than an echo of the words of someone else. There is no point in being a moon to somebody else's sun, still less is there any justification for our being moons of one another, and hence darkness to one another, not one of us being a true sun.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Moon, Echoes

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• When society is made up of men who know no interior solitude it can no longer be held together by love: and consequently it is held together by a violent and abusive authority. But when men are violently deprived of the solitude and freedom which are their due, then society in which they live becomes putrid, it festers with servility, resentment and hate.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Hate, Men

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• It cannot but affect our philosophy favorably to be reminded of these shoals of migratory fishes, of salmon, shad, alewives, marsh-bankers, and others, which penetrate up the innumerable rivers of our coast in the spring, even to the interior lakes, their scales gleaming in the sun; and again, of the fry which in still greater numbers wend their way downward to the sea.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Philosophy, Spring, Philosophical

  Henry David Thoreau (2017). “Collected Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated): Philosophical and Autobiographical Books, Essays, Poetry, Translations, Biographies & Letters: Walden, Civil Disobedience, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod, Slavery in Massachusetts, Walking…”, p.273, e-artnow

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• Fashion is the playing area for individuals that lack interior autonomy and need more support points, but who nonetheless feel the need to stand out, to be paid attention to and be considered apart from the rest Fashion elevates the insignificant by making it in the representative of a totality, the particular incarnation of a common spirit. Its function is to make possible the kind of social obedience which is at the same time individual differentiation It is the mixing of submission and the feeling of domination that is in action here.

  Georg Simmel

  Fashion, Support, Feelings

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• Rather let us imagine the anima mundi as that particular soul-spark, that seminal image, which offers itself through each thing in its visible form. Then anima mundi indicates the animated possibilities presented by each new event as it is, its sensuous presentation as a face bespeaking its interior image - in short, its availability to imagination, its presence as psychic reality. Not only animals and plants ensouled as in the Romantic vision, but soul is given with each thing, God-given things of nature and man-made things of the street.

  James Hillman

  Animal, Reality, Men

  James Hillman (2006). “City and Soul: Uniform Edition”, Spring Publications

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