The idea that there is a sharp boundary between our true inner selves and the outside world is pervasive but highly questionable. The boundaries of the self might well be more porous than we ordinarily think.
Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.
Inner confidence is what makes us successful.
I want to be old Princess Margaret, without a doubt. Kaftan wearing, Caribbean island-dwelling… that’s my inner spirit animal.
You’ve always got to have that inner confidence in you. That’s where it all starts. You’re gong to have good days, you’re going to have bad days. You’ve got to have the same desire and try to get better each day.
The outer conditions of a person’s life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs.
I have a sort of inner sense for scale.
We will not find the inner strength to evolve to a higher level if we do not inwardly develop this profound feeling that there is something higher than ourselves.
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.
Most men that run for office wake up in the morning and say, I am worthy to be the president of the United States of America. I want women to channel their inner man and say, Oh yeah, I am worthy.
I like feeling like I could probably fail, because it makes me find a part of myself that I didn’t really know: an inner fighter in me.
Follow your intuition, listening to your dreams, your inner voice to guide you.
Today we are searching for things in nature that are hidden behind the veil of appearance… We look for and paint this inner, spiritual side of nature.
I think with how society makes me feel like I should grasp onto the inner strength of me being a woman, and I felt like it was all just very much married into what I’m listening to, what I’m writing, how I’m feeling.
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.
A music teacher. It was in the inner city at a school called Horace Mann. I think I was most effective when the kids pissed me off.
By turning from the surface, one comes closer to the inner laws of matter, which are also the laws of the Spirit.
As minorities and other immigrant groups become more important to our economy, the inner city is a crucible that gives us an early look at phenomena that are going to be spreading more broadly in the economy over time.
We all have two lives: an inner life and an outer life. Your inner life is your soul life, which includes your mind, will and emotions. Your outer life is your physical life. And while God cares about every detail of your life, He is more concerned with your inner life than your outer life.
We women must listen to our inner voice. It is easier for women to do this as they are not afraid to say what they feel.
People into hard sciences, neurophysiology, often ignore a core philosophical question: ‘What is the relationship between our unique, inner experience of conscious awareness and material substance?’ The answer is: We don’t know, and some people are so terrified to say, ‘I don’t know.’
The first time I’ve actually filmed in London, the locations we’ve all had have been real inner city, grimy urban places which has been great. Filming here, you’ve got everything on your doorstep, so when you’ve got time off, you can go into town, so I’ve really enjoyed it.
The way I drive, the way I handle a car, is an expression of my inner feelings.
For years, I’ve felt that there’s an inner cook in me just waiting to be unleashed. But I have to confess I’m having an awful lot of trouble finding her in real life.
I love Lou Reed because his voice sounds like your inner conscience.
No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.
I love fantasy; I love imagination – that’s the inner child in me.
A complete autobiography would indeed be a picture of the outer and inner universe photographed upon one little life’s consciousness. For does not the whole world, seen and unseen, go to the making up of every human being?
I definitely learned about the inner workings of campaigns enough to know that I’m glad that I’m not in politics.
In New York, just standing still on the sidewalk is a weird feeling. You have this incessant need to do things. Los Angeles is about kicking back, relaxing, your inner child, peace.
I’ve come to realize I’m more spiritual than I am religious. What I mean by this: As far as praying to God goes, I’m more about looking inside for inner guidance – tapping into our own abundantly powerful inner resources – which, I suppose, is where some might say God does indeed reside.
In America, the problems of poverty and low income, particularly for minorities, are disproportionately focused in the inner cities. Shining a spotlight on the businesses growing in these communities is proof that any community has the potential for entrepreneurship.
My mission in life is to get to heaven, so the people I have in my inner circle I don’t allow to do the ‘rule breaking’ that we know as Christians we can’t.
To really involve yourself in transforming yourself. That’s the work that I’m really focused on through my company, Higher Ground Productions, is really helping people to really find a place of personal empowerment as well as inner peace.
I like devilish, thorny, dirty, mean roles, muck and mire, unbelievably sad, unbelievably happy, burdened. Inner conflict – that’s where drama is.
Your soul’s mission is to serve in the grandest way it can. Divine plans lie imprinted in your inner world, and there are important lessons for you to learn and share on this journey to your most magnificent self.
If you are vigilant and make a stern effort to reject every thought when it rises, you will soon find that you are going deeper and deeper into your own inner self, where there is no need for your effort to reject the thoughts.
I think women have an innate ability to be intuitive with people that they truly love, but they have to trust that inner voice, and I think it is there. I think we are more intuitive than men.
I am particularly surprised that certain outlets look at pass rates irrespective of student population. As if inner city high school kids are to fare as well as college students.
My inner strength comes from my friends. I have a very close group of friends and family, and we all help each other through our dark times.
Music to me is so internal. It’s physical and it’s emotional. Whereas fashion is so much about the external that it’s almost like a break. It’s not inner turmoil. It’s total escapism.
There’s two systems of health care: the one for the rich that’s really good, then there’s the one for the inner city, where they leave ladies in the emergency room unattended for 24 hours until they drop dead.
We all need songs that bring out our inner swagger just listening to it.
I have inner peace; I have accomplished a great deal.
If you look at the data, the inner city that was the riot zone lost 55,000 jobs in the ten years from 1992 to 2002, instead of gaining a surplus of 50,000.
I didn’t have a brown-skinned superhero growing up who wore cornrows and who reflected the inner city where I come from in Philadelphia.
I had a very active inner life as a kid. There’s a good album or two worth of stuff that I can bring out on a rainy day if I have a loss for inspiration or whatever – even now.
My dad never really wrote what he thought. None of his inner rage and darkness and problems, which we all have, made it on to the page. For him, writing was a process of making everything appear funny.
Inner talent gives you that ease. It’s not a remarkable thing – just a knack that gives you a very nice life.
‘Aquarian Conspiracy’ is the term I have coined for the network of people working for social transformation based on personal inner change. Such a notion is not at all alien to the American milieu.
I just have this inner insecurity that I’m never good enough.
Once you’re done being president, you tend to want to defend your record more than plumb your inner feelings. I find it hard to imagine Obama going home at night and writing sensitive, introspective journal entries about his meeting with John Boehner.
It’s only when I’m on stage that I really come to terms with the fact that other people are hearing my most inner, darkest thoughts.
It’s your inner life that’s the most important.
Inner city education must change. Our responsibility is not merely to provide access to knowledge; we must produce educated people.
Why did I go back to school? After working with giant snails as the manager of an abalone farm, who wouldn’t be fascinated with the inner workings of the mind? They are a very contemplative species.
We know so much about planets and the universe and small particles and we do not know anything about the inner state of our own bodies, we do not know about this microcosm we have inside our skin.
I’ve had little success in intellectual circles. I’m not talked about in the ‘New York Review of Books,’ and I was never part of the Stravinsky ‘inner circle.’
