Top 100 Inside Ourselves Quotes
#1. Most of us do not like to look inside ourselves for the same reason we don't like to open a letter that has bad news.
Fulton J. Sheen
#2. No one likes to feel helpless. We find it psychologically unbearable and inside ourselves we may try to make ourselves part author of our misfortune rather than simply the recipient of it.
Susie Orbach
#3. There is this thing called life. We live it, not as we intend or wish, but as we are driven on by forces outside and inside ourselves.
Sherwood Anderson
#4. The more we have outside ourselves the harder it is to get inside ourselves.
Chris Matakas
#5. What we take from the spirit world is only a reflection of what lies inside ourselves.
Charles De Lint
#6. We should reject big government and look inside ourselves for all the things that built this country into what it was.
Glenn Beck
#8. I believe we recover from loss by facing the loss, grieving, going deep inside ourselves (hopefully with a guide) and re-emerging to live and love again.
Francesca Lia Block
#9. We all have things inside ourselves we can't kill,' I say, not sure which part of me would be better off dead: this monster self, or the normal one who wants nothing more than a little place on a little planet with his friends, the one who will have to live with being a killer.
Holly Black
#10. Most fires made by underestimated sparks, the greatness fire inside ourselves is lit by the spark of the change, came across a small corner in our souls where the conscience still whispering.
Ammar Moussa
#11. You see, the main problem with our overspending and breaking budgets isn't money. It's trying to fill a need inside ourselves with things instead of God's presence and love. I
Melissa K. Norris
#12. Hospitality is the key to new ideas, new friends, new possibilities. What we take into our lives changes us. Without new people and new ideas, we are imprisoned inside ourselves.
Joan D. Chittister
#13. We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives ... inside ourselves.
Albert Camus
#14. I know that in my family there are histories of violence that are internal family things and that are oftentimes dealt with internally. By internally, I mean inside the family group, but also partly inside ourselves. You know, self-hatred and hostility and rage and this cycle that won't break.
Kara Walker
#15. We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already.
J.K. Rowling
#16. All the laws of Nature exist inside us, and if we don't find them inside ourselves we will never find them outside.
Samael Aun Weor
#17. So I choose to believe that we are not given more because we have to find the rest inside ourselves.
Sarah Fine
#18. She said that everyone has some evil inside them, and the first step to loving anyone is to recognize the same evil inside ourselves,so we're able to forgive them.
Veronica Roth
#19. Many of us have pain, regrets, and disappointments buried so far deep down inside ourselves, we have no idea they're there or how they're manifesting in our everyday lives.
Rebecca Rosen
#20. Our success and our understanding is that all beings are right inside, the deeper we go inside ourselves. There's a saying that Unity uses that I have always liked: "Let there be peace on earth, and let it begin with me." We all have to be a part of this. We have to be the initiator. We can't wait.
Edgar Mitchell
#21. Most of life's battles are fought inside ourselves, & our greatest periods of growth usually come during crises.
Robert Scheid
#22. If we looked inside ourselves and remembered how insignificant we are, just for a couple of minutes a day, respect for other people would be an automatic result.
Lynne Truss
#23. We may act sophisticated and worldly but I believe we feel safest when we go inside ourselves and find home, a place where we belong and maybe the only place we really do.
Maya Angelou
#24. Through becoming aware of how the inner man and woman relates and communicates inside ourselves, it creates a joy and satisfaction in the three life areas that they influence: our meditation and inner growth, our relationships and our work and creativity.
Swami Dhyan Giten
#25. The most important thing that we can do for the healing of our world is to hear inside ourselves, the sounds of the earth crying.
Nhat Hanh
#26. Yoga is the methodology with which to unveil the miracle that exists right in front of our faces and inside ourselves.
Rodney Yee
#27. Neuroscience research shows that the only way we can change the way we feel is by becoming aware of our inner experience and learning to befriend what is going inside ourselves.
Bessel A. Van Der Kolk
#28. All the Cosmic Drama, as it is written in the four Gospels, should be lived inside ourselves, here and now. The isn't something merely historic, it's something to live, here and now!
Samael Aun Weor
#29. We are collections of things that we find and experience and value and keep inside ourselves, sometimes knowingly, sometimes unknowingly, and that collection of things is what we finally become.
Gregory David Roberts
#30. I wonder if that's how darkness wins, by convincing us to trap it inside ourselves, instead of emptying it out.
I don't want it to win.
Jasmine Warga
#31. Proponents of intelligent design don't accept that some of the very complex nanomachines that we have inside ourselves could have come about solely on the basis of natural selection.
Francis Collins
#32. We are all carrying so many things in our life and inside ourselves. Often it feels there is no place to put them down. Where do you place the questions you carry
Sabrina Ward Harrison
#33. Or maybe we'll make a home somewhere inside ourselves, to carry with us wherever we go- which is the way I carry my mother now.
Veronica Roth
#34. The message we have internalized is clear - we are what we do and what we own, not what we are inside ourselves. Where it counts!
Joan D. Chittister
#35. The unconscious obsession that we photographers have is that wherever we go we want to find the theme that we carry inside ourselves.
Graciela Iturbide
#36. You need a mind open to possibility, conditioned to love the creative spirit we all have inside ourselves.
Yanni
#37. Maybe we're strangers no matter where we go. Or maybe we'll make a home somewhere inside ourselves, to carry with us wherever we go.
Veronica Roth
#38. Threesomes call us to confront jealousy, insecurity, fear of rejection, and a host of of other dark seeds inside ourselves. Three-ways can be huge growth experiences that encourage us to drop our insecurities and discover how wholly lovable we really are.
Victoria Vantoch
#39. The place to begin building any relationship is inside ourselves, inside our circle of influence, our own character.
Stephen Covey
#40. Sometimes we have to go deep inside ourselves to solve our problems
Patrick Star
#41. We become very impressed when we get to look inside ourselves, into pictures. That's the relationship we have with pictures. Every picture is a piece of the inside of ourselves.
Oliviero Toscani
#42. Sometimes you have compulsions that you can't control coming from the subconscious ... they are the dictator inside ourselves.
Denis Villeneuve
#43. If trees can create art, if they can encircle the globe seven times in one year, if prisoners can grow plants and raise frogs, then perhaps there are other static entities that we hold inside ourselves, like grief, like addictions, like racism, that can also change.
Nalini Nadkarni
#44. Happiness isn't something that depends on our surroundings ... It's something we make inside ourselves.
Corrie Ten Boom
#45. It is normal to be curious. The only shame is if all the musts and shoulds drown out the wants that we hear inside ourselves.
Madeline Hunter
#46. People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.
Salma Hayek
#47. It would be so much better if we could share our insecurity, if we could all venture inside ourselves and realize that green beans and vitamin C, however much they nurture us, cannot save lives, or sustain our souls.
Muriel Barbery
#48. (Home is) a place we carry inside ourselves, a place where we welcome the unfamiliar because we know that as time passes it will become the very bedrock of our being.
Verlyn Klinkenborg
#49. When you speak about generosity, about something good we have inside ourselves, you're speaking to the majority.
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
#50. Our society is all about focusing on the externals, "These people like me, I'm successful because of these people, they view me as being good" and we need to take that vision and instead of expanding it outwards we need to look inside ourselves.
Rainn Wilson
#51. Introversion and shyness are not synonymous. Introversion is a natural personality trait where we go inside ourselves to process our experiences. Shyness, on the other hand, is a condition marked by fear or extreme anxiety in social situations.
Adam S. McHugh
#52. Are you afraid a demon has escaped Hell in order to descend upon the Venetians?"
"I think there are a few who'd deserve it, but I'm also a man of science, and I believe that we all carry our own private infernos inside ourselves."
-Conversation between Majid and Mathias
Riccardo Bruni
#53. When we hate a person, what we hate in his image is something inside ourselves. Whatever isn't inside us can't excite us.
Hermann Hesse
#54. Peace is the result of an inner state of harmony. It is not obtained by eliminating anything external, it is inside ourselves that we must find and suppress the causes of war.
Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov
#55. And she said we all had to find God inside ourselves, in the things we loved most.
Ellen Wittlinger
#57. Do you think we are truly ever old?" she says. "I mean, inside ourselves, old? Ready to be old?
Kate Walbert
#58. Open your hearts. Deep inside ourselves, we are all one and the same.
Dani Shapiro
#59. The first best-kept secret of total success is that we must feel love inside ourselves before we can give it to others.
Denis Waitley
#60. We can only give away to others what we have inside ourselves.
Wayne Dyer
#61. You are always in the world. Even in Vagabond. I am not on the road, I am not eating nothing. But in a way we all have a Mona. We all have inside ourselves a woman who walks alone on the road. In all women there is something in revolt that is not expressed.
Agnes Varda
#62. The power we discover inside ourselves as we survive a life-threatening experience can be utilized equally well outside of crisis, too. I am, in every moment, capable of mustering the strength to survive again - or of tapping that strength in other good, productive, healthy ways.
Michele Rosenthal
#63. To see another as God intended, we must come from a place of loving inside ourselves, as God intended.
Lori Cash Richards
#64. The only power that exists is inside ourselves.
Anne Rice
#65. Where did feelings go when they disappeared? Did they leave a chemical trace somewhere in our minds, so that if we could look inside ourselves we would see via the patterns of neurons some of the important things that had happened to us in our lifetimes?
Evelyn Lau
#66. We're making strange fictions of strange things inside ourselves.
Clive Barker
#67. That for them, that war won't ever be over. I don't think any real war ever is - large, small, between countries, between people. Even the wars inside ourselves. Something always remains.
Nancy Jensen
#68. Runners and yogis are alike in lots of ways, and not just because some of us need yoga to unkink what running jams. Runners and yogis are also alike because of this tortoise shell idea, this 'home' we can access inside ourselves.
Kristin Armstrong
#69. We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.
J.K. Rowling
#70. Freedom is something that we got to achieve inside ourselves. Nobody can achieve it outside oneself.
Samael Aun Weor
#71. We live not in the world outside, but in a world inside ourselves.
Harun Yahya
#72. Happy people are not their own enemies, do not carry on an endless war with their souls. We may be fiercely at odds with the wrongs of the world around us. But inside ourselves, near the core, if we are happy, we are at peace.
Lewis B. Smedes
#73. How can we know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Begin at once to do your duty and immediately you will know what is inside you.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#74. As I bathe myself
I pray with all beings
that we can purify body and mind
and clean ourselves inside and out.
Ruth Ozeki
#75. Times change so quickly that if you and I don't keep up with the times, we'll find ourselves with an umbrella in our hand, over our head, when the sun is out. Or we'll find ourselves standing in the rain, with the umbrella inside the door.
Malcolm X
#76. We learn to make a shell for ourselves when we are young and then spend the rest of our lives hoping for someone to reach inside and touch us. Just touch us - anything more than that would be too much for us to bear.
Bill Russell
#77. Some of the onus falls on us to make ourselves available for the ball, because we need to play inside-out. That's when we're at our best.
Steven Hill
#78. We state and commend the faith only in so far as we go out and put ourselves inside the doubts of the doubters, the questions of the questioners and the loneliness of those who have lost their way.
John R.W. Stott
#79. I look like vanilla pudding so nobody knows that on the inside I am spider soup.
Andrea Portes
#80. The future is all possibilities, but the past is set in stone. All those ghosts of ourselves, our youth, still alive inside us, but out of our reach forever. We meet them when we close our eyes, when we let our memories come alive. But that's all they are. Memories. No more real than a dream.
Wendy Mass
#81. When you're going through a tough spell, it's easy to think that's all your life is about. You forget the good things, forget the quiet places. But they're always inside of us and we can pull them up when we need to set ourselves right.
Joan Bauer
#82. Sometimes in life, we have to go backward a certain distance in order to go forwards. If we have conflicts within ourselves that we have not resolved, then we will find ourselves living inside of these conflicts, not in the realms of light.
Frederick Lenz
#83. I think we all need to be inside of us for 3 whole days, thinking about how we can love ourselves more, protect ourselves more, live life with more passion and look not outwards for validation but inwards.
Lady Gaga
#84. It's part of the human condition that we create stories about ourselves and about the world around us. Our stories are often filled with limitations, and we proceed to live our lives inside those limitations. Your
Kelly G. Wilson
#85. There is, inside all our heads, the ego's rabid attack dog. It is purely vicious toward others and toward ourselves as well. Learning to control that dog, and ultimately to end its life, is the process and purpose of enlightened relationships.
Marianne Williamson
#86. Love is a living, breathing thing. There is no need to force it to grow in a particular direction. If we start by being easy and gentle with ourselves, we will find it is just there inside of us, solid and healing.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#87. What do you find when you go inside? A rich world, streaming with thoughts, feelings, sensations, memories, hopes, wishes, dreams, and fears. No one is immune to the allure of this world. We experience ourselves in here, and everything we can possibly imagine.
Deepak Chopra
#88. I had left the visible, physical blue at the door, outside, in the street. The real blue was inside, the blue of the profundity of space, the blue of my kingdom, of our kingdom! ... the immaterialisation of blue, the coloured space that can not be seen but which we impregnate ourselves with.
Yves Klein
#89. Everyone is an ocean inside. Every individual walking the street. Everyone is a universe of thoughts, and insights, and feelings. But every person is crippled in his or her own way by our inability to truly present ourselves to the world.
Khaled Hosseini
#90. I think all dancers are control freaks a bit. We just want to be in control of ourselves and our bodies. That's just what the ballet structure, I think, kind of puts inside of you.
Misty Copeland
#91. And there it is, proof if proof were needed, that though God may mould the clay and fashion some of us hale, some strong, some beautiful, inside we make ourselves, from foolish things, breakable, fragile things:
Mark Lawrence
#92. Things are different when you go back to them, they seem to have more power to enter into us more sadly, more deeply, more gently than before, to merge with the death which is slowly, pleasantly, sneakily growing inside us, and which we train ourselves to resist a little less each day.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
#93. we can never fool ourselves no matter how deep inside our mind we think we are.
M.B. Julien
#94. We try to exile ourselves more and more from nature - not always consciously: We build houses; we dismiss nature; nature has to be outside, because we're inside. God forbid something like a cockroach comes inside, or some dust.
Diane Ackerman
#95. Crazy by definition is
Knowing that true sanity is
A figment of the educated mind
Caleb Warta
#96. Holding anger is a poison ... It eats you from inside ... We think that by hating someone we hurt them ... But hatred is a curved blade ... and the harm we do to others ... we also do to ourselves.
Mitch Albom
#97. Each of us carries a room within ourselves, waiting to be furnished and peopled, and if you listen closely, you may need to silence everything in your own room, you can hear the sounds of that other room inside your head.
Susan Sontag
#98. Sometimes, we do not believe in ourselves until someone else reveals that, deep inside of us, something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, love, or any other experience that reveals our human spirit.
Jose N. Harris
#99. We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.
Douglas Coupland
#100. Frankly, I believe that identity is what's inside us.
Theo Coster
