My dad didn’t graduate high school. My mom is a high school graduate. My mom is a factory worker. My dad owned a bar in the inner city.
If there’s no inner peace, people can’t give it to you. The husband can’t give it to you. Your children can’t give it to you. You have to give it to you.
It’s not an easy course. It’s not designed to be. We’re not here to get you in touch with your inner child.
The modern artist… is working and expressing an inner world – in other words – expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.
In my own one-woman show, ‘Feeling Good,’ I talk about my childhood and write a letter to my younger self in the show. The most important thing I would tell her is to trust my instincts. Just trust them. They’re little whispers from God, I think. You’ve heard it a million times, but it’s true: Listen to that inner voice.
When women reassert their relationship with the wildish nature, they are gifted with a permanent and internal watcher, a knower, a visionary, an oracle, an inspiratrice, an intuitive, a maker, a creator, an inventor, and a listener who guide, suggest, and urge vibrant life in the inner and outer world.
I was raised by a single psychologist mother and we spent every evening sitting at the kitchen table and dissecting our emotions and speculating about the inner life of everyone we knew.
The great solution to all human problems is individual inner transformation.
The ultimate victory in competition is derived from the inner satisfaction of knowing that you have done your best and that you have gotten the most out of what you had to give.
My so-called bad dress-sense phase happened when I was confused – I think I was taking advice all too often, without listening to my inner voice. Add to the fact that I was a little overweight; so every wrong ‘outfit’ got compounded all that much.
In this cry of pain the inner consciousness of the people seems to lay itself bare for an instant, and to reveal the mood of beings who feel their isolation in the face of a universe that wars on them with winds and seas.
Everyone has some inner power that awaits discovery.
We have an inner window through which we can see the world, and though it gets cloudy in life, it’s our job to wipe it clean and see things as they really are.
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.
I like clothes that are easy to wear. I like to be comfortable and confident. When people have an inner sense of confidence, they’re more beautiful.
Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.
I think every young girl who’s been through a lot with relationships and trusting people has an inner psycho.
Someone asked me what part of the body is the most important to be strong – it’s the big toe. The big toe especially, and the inner front-third of your feet, are what give you balance and will make you infinitely better at any sport, any physical activity and, as you get older, will keep you from falling.
Hospice is such a tremendous thing. Patients seem to reach an inner peace.
We all deal with our inner pessimist. We just try to find as much positivity as we can find.
I’m a classic example of what can happen if you follow your inner voice. I was cursed with interests and some talent in many different areas. It confuses people.
It was only from an inner calm that man was able to discover and shape calm surroundings.
All ballet, all reading, all music. That was my world, my inner world.
A lot of people don’t know how to pull themselves out of their rut and how to change realities. In technology, you routinely have an ‘upgrade’ for your phones and computers. Our personal inner software needs upgrading too.
Never continue in a job you don’t enjoy. If you’re happy in what you’re doing, you’ll like yourself, you’ll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.
At the peak of his scientific triumphs, Newton became a ‘head,’ a student of the inner spiritual world – or in modern terms, a neurologician. Modern physicists do not dwell on this dramatic life-change in their hero.
If I’m O.K., I will abandon restrictions and curbs imposed on myself. Not physical ones, but those restrictive tabs on my inner being, on solely myself. I will strip me of superficial dishonesties. I will paint against every rule I or others have invisibly placed.
When my inner mood is positive, I also feel great on the outside.
Now, admittedly, Twitter can be entertaining on occasion, as it turns out that 140 characters offers a great chance to be misunderstood – and an even greater chance one will expose his inner troglodyte.
Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon, Harry Potter triumphing over the basilisk. That is their inner grammar, and the whole shape of the story leads towards it.
For the first time I feel an inner emotional security. There is reality and dependability. My life revolves around Richard and the baby.
Inner demons? Got none of them.
Shapes that contain no inner components of positive/negative relationships will function better with other shapes of the same nature.
Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.
One of the greatest lessons of my own life was learning to turn the inner rampage of hatred and anger toward my own father for his reprehensible behavior and abandonment of his family into an inner reaction more closely aligned with God and God-realized love.
It’s important to promote tennis in inner city schools so kids in those areas have access to the sport.
More than 50 percent of kids who play an instrument go on to college, yet music education programs at the inner city public schools who need them most continue to be hit hard with budget cuts.
Feminine force is that inner strength, that power, that will to face down any negative circumstances in life and defeat them.
I think everybody has their own inner rap spirit animal.
If you say ‘I can’t,’ you’d better add on ‘yet.’ Once you start to change that inner dialogue, things that would seem completely impossible become possible.
For each individual, sport is a possible source for inner improvement.
I have always loved and avidly read the novels of Jack London, Jules Verne and Ernest Hemingway. The characters depicted in their books, who are brave and resourceful people embarking on exciting adventures, definitely shaped my inner self and nourished my love for the outdoors.
Emily Dickinson has haunted my life – her poems, her persona, all the tales about her solitude. Ever since I discovered her in the seventh grade, I’ve had a crush on that spinster in white, who had such a heroic and startling inner landscape of her own.
Inner improvements create outer ones.
I learned that there is an inner strength that blossoms when one cleanses themselves by processing and attempting to comprehend their situation and/or experience. Writing became my therapy!
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.
I was raised on an estate in an inner city school where people had a go about my size, people saying I am too big to play football – which still happens today – and I used that to inspire me.
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.
I believe eating well, and with people you love, is about feeding your body, heart, and soul – I used juicing to ensure I covered my nutritional bases every day, and as a tool to restore inner balance if my body needed a break from too much indulgence.
How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.
You really have to look inside yourself and find your own inner strength, and say, ‘I’m proud of what I am and who I am, and I’m just going to be myself.’
Yoga is ‘so hum,’ spiritual and all that, and I get it, and I respect that, but that’s not what I do. What I do with DDP Yoga, we have changed the face of how it’s represented. The spiritual stuff for us is about the power of positivity along with giving people that inner confidence.
Unlike a celebrity, there’s nothing I won’t try and nothing I won’t talk about when it comes to my hair. If I were to get a tattoo on my inner upper arm, it would read, ‘Change thy hair, change thyself.’
Once, I tried to channel my inner Pocahontas and wore a lot of Navajo prints, a lot of beige, fringe, and suede… I wish I hadn’t done that.
My friends tell me that I’ve calmed down, that I seem more centered. I don’t know, I think my inner self was more hollow before, which made me more scattered, and more needy to get laughs.
That’s something that I think the best artists retain – the ability to invite you into their small, intimate inner space, and let that be what radiates.
