Top 100 Inside Us Quotes
#1. We all start out knowing magic. We are born with whirlwinds, forest fires, and comets inside us. We are born able to sing to birds and read the clouds and see our destiny in grains of sand. But then we get the magic educated right out of our souls.
Robert McCammon
#2. What is this self inside us, this silent observer,
Severe and speechless critic, who can terrorize us
And urge us to futile activity,
And in the end, Judge us still more severely,
For the errors into which his own reproaches drove us?
T. S. Eliot
#3. We stop looking for monsters under our beds when we realize they are inside us.
Charles Darwin
#4. The enemies inside us: Indifference, Indecision, Doubt, Worry, and Over-caution.
Jim Rohn
#5. We are all connected at a deep, chemical level. We are all connected to the universe, and the universe is inside us.
Wendy Mass
#6. We do not need to succumb to the temptation to meet such a violation with retaliation. The only way to heal this hurt is to give voice to what ails us. It is only in this way that we can keep our pain and loss from taking root inside us. It is only in this way that we have a chance for freedom.
Desmond Tutu
#7. My friend Erin says we all have demons inside us, voices that whisper we're no good, that if we don't make this promotion or ace that exam we'll reveal to the world exactly what kind of worthless sacks of skin and sinew we really are Maybe that's true. Maybe mine just have louder voices.
Ruth Ware
#8. Love is already inside us as our true being; we do not have to make it appear.
Deepak Chopra
#9. It is lucky, she thinks, that we don't feel all the love inside us every moment.
Gabrielle Zevin
#10. In order to become the chisel that breaks the marble inside us, the artist must first become the hammer. [Soviet censor of paintings and photos]
Anthony Marra
#11. Wishes are like magnifying glasses they enlarge and focus an intention that is already inside us.
Stephen Mitchell
#12. The Most Precious Things Inside Us Look So Ordinary From Outside, Although Glamorous Things Outside Are Always Fake Deep Inside ...
It's The Truth Of Our Life That We Barely Recognize ..
Mohamed Safa
#13. The greatest things in life - truth, creativity, imagination, love, kindness, compassion -are already inside us, and they're all free.
Yanni
#14. We wear clothes, and speak, and create civilizations, and believe we are more than wolves. But inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce and that is who we are.
Anthony Marra
#15. All of us have darkness inside us, and at times it possesses and seduces us in ways we never thought possible.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#17. When one of us gets lost, is not here, he or she must be inside us.
There's no place like that anywhere in the world.'
Rumi
Rumi
#18. It's so good to know that inside us there's a self that knows everything!
Hermann Hesse
#19. You see, that hunger inside us, that ambition, or whatever you may choose to call it, is a compass really, a compass of true desire. And if you will be happy, you must follow that desire, no matter which way the needle points.
Kathe Koja
#20. Can we confront our sadness in reflecting on what our own hearts feel, or are incapable of feeling? Simply, is there anything inside us equal to or worthy of the beauty of the world?
Spencer Gordon
#21. There's a scream inside us all we save for death
Peter Liney
#22. I think that all of us either lose touch with the child inside us or try and hold onto it because it so precious to us and it's such an extraordinary part of our lives.
Ben Kingsley
#23. We can't feel anything - all that's left inside us is dust.
Andrei Platonov
#24. We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.
Franz Kafka
#25. Sometimes I wonder if she transforms people into animals, or whether she finds the beast inside us, and frees it.
Neil Gaiman
#26. We must all find the spirit to try and help better humanity! We all have it inside us to contribute something to the cause of humanity!
Timothy Pina
#27. Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one's mother's womb.
Italo Calvino
#28. A book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#29. Hope is a seed that grows inside us from the moment we are born
J.D. Willd
#30. I understood that our entire universe is contained in the mind and the spirit. We may choose not to find access to it, we may even deny its existence, but it is indeed there inside us, and there are chemicals that can analyze its availability.
Alexander Shulgin
#31. Mankind is not a race of noble savages - but primitive monsters hide inside us, elusive as Sasquatch ...
John Geddes
#32. We could run all over the world, but we wouldn't be able to escape what was inside us, and eventually it would destroy all of us.
Jeaniene Frost
#33. inside us, a flower taken whole,
a field built inside.
Nick Flynn
#34. We all have a personal pool of quicksand inside us where we begin to sink and need friends and family to find us and remind us of all the good that has been and will be.
Regina Brett
#35. We have a pharmacy inside us that is absolutely exquisite. It makes the right medicine, for the precise time, for the right target organ - with no side effects.
Deepak Chopra
#37. When a heart breaks, million stories inside us get shattered.
Prassant Kevin
#38. Lonely places draw lonely people ... They echo inside us, and we cannot help but listen.
Robert Jackson Bennett
#39. Deep inside us we're not that different at all.
Phil Collins
#40. If we couldn't carry our dead inside us, we would be empty.
Joey Comeau
#41. We were made from stardust, like everything in the universe, and we - each of us - carried a power inside us. A power that couldn't be destroyed anymore than the universe could be destroyed.
Matt Haig
#42. There is a battle of two wolves inside us all. One is evil: it is anger, envy, greed, arrogance, jealousy, resentment, lies. The other is good: it is joy, peace, love, hope, humility, kindness, empathy, truth. The wolf that wins? The one you feed. - Cherokee proverb Spanning
Angela Stevens
#43. We've come a long way. Power dressing now is designed to let the woman inside us come through.
Donna Karan
#44. Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer.
Jack Henry Abbott
#45. Our entire universe is contained in the mind and the spirit. We may choose not to find access to it, we may even deny its existence, but it is indeed there inside us ...
Alexander Shulgin
#46. So what are we to do with our fear, our anger, the clouds that cover the love inside us? Relinquish them to the Holy Spirit. He
Marianne Williamson
#47. We all have a monster somewhere inside us," Charlotte said. "Like I was saying about the kids. Sometimes it's aggressive, sometimes it finds other forms of attack, and other times it's a cowardly one.
Wildbow
#48. We're all ghosts. We all carry, inside us, people who came before us.
Liam Callanan
#49. We don't just live in books awake and dreams asleep. We are living stories, you and I, with dreams inside us undeniable, with love to give and people to walk beside.
Jamie Tworkowski
#50. Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it's an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us, that when we read, we do it with all our heart and mind, and great readers are becoming more scarce by the day.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#51. When our hearts turn to our ancestors, something changes inside us. We feel part of something greater than ourselves. Our inborn yearnings for family connections are fulfilled when we are linked to our ancestors ...
Russell M. Nelson
#52. We felt so small with the city lights stretching forever below us, and we yelled at the top of our lungs because we were just these small humans but we felt more longing than could ever fit inside us.
Nina LaCour
#53. I have come to feel that the essence of life is not what it so often seems to be - working to have, working to get, working to possess. It's about becoming. It's about what's happening inside us.
Mary Ellen Edmunds
#54. Still, we will let all this be a thing of the past, though it hurts us, and beat down by constraint the anger that rises inside us.
Now I am making an end of my anger. It does not become me, unrelentingly to rage on
Homer
#55. The purpose of ritual is to wake up the old mind in us, to put it to work. The old ones inside us, the collective unconscious, the many lives, the divine eternal parts, the senses and parts of the brain that have been ignored.
Zsuzsanna Budapest
#56. Anyway, what do happiness and unhappiness mean? They depend so little on circumstances and so much more on what goes on inside us. I
Eric Metaxas
#57. What is prayer but meditation? What is a demon but a fear that lives inside us, one we cannot easily conquer on our own?
John Searles
#58. It isn't the desire to abide by the law that makes everyone behave as society requires, but the fear of punishment. Each one of us carries a gallows inside us.
Paulo Coelho
#59. We all have light and dark inside us, what matters is the path we decide to take.
Stephenie Meyer
#60. The pursuit of material-external things as if they can provide deep and lasting happiness is contributing to a dwindling of real meaning and is a factor contributing to an increase in mental health problems. It just isn't possible to fill the hole inside us by piling up the things outside us. pg9
Dr Stephen McKenzie And Dr Craig Hassed
#61. Whatever we carry inside us shapes everyone we touch
Nancy Jensen
#62. The spirit is larger than the body. The body is pathetic compared to what we have inside us
Diana Nyad
#63. Dorkdom isn't something you can choose. It's something you are. But instead of dividing the world up into dorkside and darkside, I've realised that we all have a little bit of dork inside us.
Sarra Manning
#64. Memory is the only afterlife I have ever believed in. But the forgetting inside us cannot be stopped. We are programmed to betray.
Michael Ignatieff
#65. I want to believe that while we may sometimes read in the misguided pursuit of preserving our separation, there is a greater impulse inside us that compels us to read in search of the common heart.
Sue Monk Kidd
#66. What I do is based on powers we all have inside us; the ability to endure; the ability to love, to carry on, to make the best of what we have - and you don't have to be a 'Superman' to do it.
Christopher Reeve
#67. You know Chuck, Buddy, and Elvis paved the road. The roots are deep inside us, it's the rhythm in our soul.
Brian Wilson
#68. Life's not about security. It's about picking up the pieces after it's all over and carrying on. We can choose to be cowards who fear letting someone inside us, and do that alone. Or we can choose to be brave and let someone stand by our side and help us.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#69. It's almost as if we each have a vampire inside us. Controlling that beast, that dark side, is what fascinates me.
Sheryl Lee
#70. As with all great works of literature, 'Of Mice and Men' moves with the inexorability of a huge river, and it pours itself, exhausts itself, in the sea of our unconscious. Having read it, we carry the book inside us forever.
Jay Parini
#71. We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside 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, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
E. E. Cummings
#72. Reflections, Musings and reviewing personal experiences through different angles of light... What is inside us is out there as well. (Zoltan Galos)
Z.J. Galos
#73. Passion, rage - no matter how much we evolve, man can't escape these instincts: our heritage as beasts. We can only hope to control the beast inside us.
A.G. Riddle
#74. There is an otherness inside us
We never touch,
no matter how far down our hands reach.
It is the past,
with its good looks and Anytime, Anywhere ...
Our prayers go out to it, our arms go out to it
Year after year,
But who can ever remember enough?
Charles Wright
#75. Inside us lies every possibility that is available to a sentient being. Every darkness, every light. It is the choices we make that decide who or what we will be.
Charles De Lint
#76. 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
#77. The purpose of education is to enable us to develop to the fullest that which is inside us
Norman Cousins
#78. The important thing is to know why we want to dance. We dance a solitude that we have inside us and cannot occupy with anything. This gap, that emptiness to which we put movement is the TANGO.
Carlos Gavito
#79. The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#80. Keep thinking. You can hear our brains rattling around inside us, like the littler Russian dolls.
M T Anderson
#81. I have believed for a long time that human nature is a reciprocity of what is inside the skin and what is outside: that it is definitely not "rolled up inside us" but our way of being one with our fellows and our world. I call this field theory.
Gardner Murphy
#82. Happiness isn't in the future, it's not somewhere else. It's available right inside us, right now, all the time.
Leo Babauta
#83. Everyone burns, as the Buddha says, in their own way. Some burn with anger, some with lust, some with a desire for vengeance, some with fear. But inside us burn many fires, not just one. We are legion, we contain a multitude.
John Dolan
#84. We all go through life bristling at our external limitations, but the most difficult chains to break are inside us.
Bradley Whitford
#85. In life, we always search outside for unimportant things and ignore the most important things, which are inside us.
Debasish Mridha
#86. We have a mental block inside us that stops us from earning more than we think we are worth. If we want to earn more in reality, we have to upgrade our self-concept.
Brian Tracy
#87. And life takes place
inside us, with the eternal light
of an ecstatic day
which is going on somewhere else.
It is a beautiful thing,
something true and not yet real, beautiful!
Juan Ramon Jimenez
#88. We all have a dark side, Reggie. You. Me. The old lady down the street. Henry. Everyone. We make the choice not to embrace it, but the dark is there. It's always there. Inside us.
Simon Holt
#89. Peace is not a result inside us from everything around us. Peace is not submissive nor passive. On the contrary, peace is an overwhelming force which comes from within us, disrespectful of everything around us, a firm coalition of spirit and soul standing against all the unrest that abounds.
C. JoyBell C.
#90. As some strings, untouched,
sound when no one is speaking.
So it was when love slipped inside us.
Jane Hirshfield
#91. Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.
Stephen King
#92. More of life seems to live inside us than out. Happiness is found when you connect both of them.
Wes Adamson
#93. Just as warm sunlight can, by passing through a lens, turn to fire, so too can love. It's wrong to see it as something that swoops in from the outside. It's because it arises from the feelings we carry inside us that it strikes with such violence, at the moment we least expect.
Sabahattin Ali
#94. Art is something that happens inside us. We look at things in the world, and we become excited by them. We understand our own possibilities of becoming. And that's what art is.
Jeff Koons
#95. The happiness for which our souls ache is one undisturbed by success or failure, one which will root deeply inside us and give inward relaxation, peace, and contentment, no matter what the surface problems may be. That kind of happiness stands in need on no outward stimulus.
Billy Graham
#96. The fact that the union of different nationalities and denominations resulted from the liberation, this is particularly symbolic and important for our multinational country, As long as we feel this unity inside us, Russia will be invincible.
Vladimir Putin
#97. We have a great deal of fight inside us, and sometimes our strength of spirit forces us to choose truth and integrity over comfort and security.
Cat Winters
#98. Scars are simply modern battle wounds. Sometimes the enemy happens to be inside us.
Andrew Grey
#99. Close your senses and the imagination comes alive. It's inside us al, dulled by endless television reruns and by a society that reins in fantasy as something not to be trusted, something to be purged. But it's in there, deep inside, a spark waiting to set a touch-paper alight.
Tahir Shah
#100. As humans, all our power elements lies in our ability to switch the power of hate inside us onto an energy of love.
Sameh Elsayed
