Words matter. These are the best Inner Life Quotes from famous people such as Mike Nichols, W. H. Auden, Dave Davies, Maria Montessori, Rudolf Steiner, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
You could say that it’s in talking movies that inner life begins to appear. You can see things happen to the faces of people that were neither planned nor rehearsed.
Choice of attention – to pay attention to this and ignore that – is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.
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.
There are two ‘faiths’ which can uphold humans: faith in God and faith in oneself. And these two faiths should exist side by side: the first belongs to one’s inner life, the second to one’s life in society.
It is possibly not very helpful to our inner life to ponder a great deal on how the external world is reflected in our soul. By doing so, we do not get beyond a shadowy picture of the world of mental images in ourselves.
I wanted to live the inner life of every man I saw, look at the world through his eyes.
I think you need a concrete, real-world metaphor to talk about inner life without feeling like a jerk.
If you want to paint the inner life, you paint it from the exterior. From the exterior, you breathe the inner life into your painting.
No one can be an artist without a rich inner life.
It’s your inner life that’s the most important.
After spending the last few years working on a serious novel set in Chechnya, I was drawn to both the brevity and casualness of Twitter, and wrote a series of tweets titled ‘The Erotic Inner Life of Mr. Bates from Downton Abbey.’
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.
The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self.
After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
I thought it would be really cool to show the world the inner life of someone like me, who doesn’t have a huge personality, who deals with some personal demons and is a little bit shy and a little awkward when you first get to know me.
Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.
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.
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.
The home is the center of your soul; it’s a total reflection of your inner life. If you have a dreary home, it means you are dark inside.
If your inner life is not producing what you would like on the outside, don’t be discouraged… just be willing to change.
My children have gone to Catholic school… Part of their whole education is talking about the inner life and looking at your life, even though you’re only 15 or 16 – thinking about your mortality, thinking about the value of your life, thinking about your obligations.
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.
The plays I choose to work on are about having masks. We all have masks in life, but there is a different inner life going on. The audience has to work hard to see what is going on. I love what is not on display.
The only knowledge which satisfies us is one which is subject to no external standards but springs from the inner life of the personality.
The act of writing can be a form of release – a confession performs the same action: putting your inner life on the page or into the hands of a trusted person releases tensions and sheds light on what often seems hidden until spoken – or written.
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.
I’ve always had a process that I do before I even get to set or go to the location. I work privately, and it almost feels like therapy between me and who I’m playing. So I have this inner life that’s there and it gives me a confidence, too, that when I’m playing the role I know every question.
If you have a good inner life, you don’t get lonely. I’ve got a good imagination. I don’t miss romance.
I have only recently got interested in film, and it is a strange way of working in many ways. But actually, when it is at its best, it’s quite an extraordinary way of working between a director and an actor, to really explore an inner life.
The big biography of Lincoln necessarily had to do so much with his political career, his ambitions, his accomplishments in public, with less time to spend on his private life, his inner life, and I thought this might be a way of getting at that.
