Inner Self Quotes

Persecution cannot harm him who stands by Truth. Did not Socrates fall proudly a victim in body? Was not Paul stoned for the sake of the Truth? It is our inner selves that hurt us when we disobey it, and it kills us when we betray it.

Those who follow the part of themselves which is great are great men; those who follow the part which is little are little men.

The sole concern of learning is to seek one's original heart.

What you are you do not see, what you see is your shadow.

There is no need to run outside for better seeing... Rather abide at the center of your being; For the more you leave it the less you learn. Search your heart and see... The way to do is to be.

I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.

The myriad things are complete in us. There is no greater joy than to reflect on ourselves and become sincere.

Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

Inside you there's an artist you don't know about.

The quivering, ardent sunlight showed him the lines of cruelty round the mouth as clearly as if he had been looking into a mirror after he had done some dreadful thing.

Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.

Always search for your innermost nature in those you are with, as rose oil imbibes from roses.

Only in silence I find myself. Life in the city is so hectic that you lose the right perspective. It's important to know that our biggest resources are in our heart.

There isA madman inside of youWho is always running for office

Conscience, man's moral medicine chest.

When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out, because that's what's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside.

From outside one will always triumphantly impress theories upon the world and then fall straight into the ditch one has dug, but only from inside will one keep oneself and the world quiet and true.

Within us - the heart of us, really - is a 'ground' that is to our thoughts and feelings, our relationships with others and ourselves, as is the Earth to the leaves that first race across her and then, no longer able to run, give themselves up to nourish her body so that she may give birth again come the spring.

Eventually, we reach the point where we start to realize that we are not going to find peace, contentment, happiness, strength, fearlessness - all of the things that in our heart of hearts we wish we had - outside of us.

I'm fat, but I'm thin inside. Has it ever struck you that there's a thin man inside every fat man, just as they say there's a statue inside every block of stone?

The difference between talent and genius is in the direction of the current: in genius, it is from within outward; in talent from without inward.

O lady, nobility is thine, and thy form is the reflection of thy nature!

Inside you there’s an artist you don’t know about… say yes quickly, if you know, if you’ve known it from before the beginning of the universe.

It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such. It is the bog in our brains and bowels, the primitive vigor of Nature in us, that inspires that dream. I shall never find in the wilds of Labrador a greater wildness than in some recess of Concord.

The dialogue between what's going on in the world and what's going on internally seems to be a natural thing - well, it's natural to me, anyway, to have these thoughts.

When you squeeze an orange, you'll always get orange juice to come out. What comes out is what's inside. The same logic applies to you: when someone squeezes you, puts pressure on you, or says something unflattering or critical, and out of you comes anger, hatred, bitterness, tension, depression, or anxiety, that is what's inside. If love and joy are what you want to give and receive, change your life by changing what's inside

What is the Heart? A flower opening.

As you begin to heal the inner you, you alter your immune system.

The inmost in due time becomes the outmost.

To me I seem to be constantly growing. I must respond to varying conditions, yet remain changeless within.

Better that the whole world should turn against you... than you should consent to turn against what is true within you.

One thing you can't hide - is when you're crippled inside.

The great theatre for virtue is conscience.

Our very life depends on everything's Recurring till we answer from within.

Believe that others are better than you in the debths of their soul, although outwardly you may appear better than they.

It was Ba's inspiration which helped me reach the heights of my inner self. She was my priceless jewel.

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

As you live Deeper in the Heart, the Mirror gets clearer and cleaner.

We are hidden in ourselves, like a truth hidden in isolated facts. When we know that this One in us is One in all, then our truth is revealed.

You can only give away what you have inside. Become an instrument of love.

Stop looking for something out there and begin seeing within.

It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, and vice the real murderer.

but i've slammed the door to my inner self; if he ever wants to force the lock again, he'll have to use a harder crowbar!

Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.

There is an original inside me.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

Life is your deepest inner Being. It is already whole, complete, perfect.

As to conforming outwardly and living your own life inwardly, I do not think much of that.

Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.

Whatever the ego seeks and gets attached to are substitutes for the Being that it cannot feel.

Journeys bring power and love back into you. If you can't go somewhere, move in the passageways of the self. They are like shafts of light, always changing, and you change when you explore them.

We are very far from always knowing our own wishes.

Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. You are the love and joy beneath the pain.

I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.

The true poem is the poet's mind.

You are dreaming your thirst when the water you want is inside the big vein on your neck.

We are surrounded by abysses, but the greatest of all depths is in our own heart, and an irresistible leaning leads us there. Draw thyself from thyself!

If you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out. Nothing can come out of you that is not in you. If when you are pressured, anger comes out, it is not the fault of the person who pressured.

Resistance to revelation, resistance to becoming conscious of all that dwells within us - high and low, light and dark - is the anti-change factor. It is also the mainspring of all our psychological fears.

Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.