Internal Lives Quotes

#1. I have been amazed by the Anglo-Saxon's lack of curiosity about the internal lives and emotions of the Negroes, and for that matter, any non-Anglo-Saxon peoples within our borders, above the class of unskilled labor.

Zora Neale Hurston

#2. In many ways, it's easier to write a book. You have more latitude with structure, and you have the freedom to luxuriate within the internal lives and musings of your characters. But where a screenplay does not always demand great prose, a novel lives or dies by it.

John Fusco

#3. We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.

Tony Robbins

#4. We are likely to feel better when we go to bed tonight if we have an internal sense that we spent our lives meaningfully today.

Marianne Williamson

#5. Our lives are so diversified, internal attitudes so varied, appearances and capabilities so different, that there is no possible classification so catholic that it will cover us all, except My people! My people!

Zora Neale Hurston

#6. In each of us there is internal knowledge, a gentle voice, beckoning us
toward well-being. It tells us to let go, to stay in the river of present experience, not to dam up our lives by worrying about potential futures or bemoaning past mistakes.

Marcey Shapiro

#7. But the Committee for Industrial Organizations is here. It is now henceforth a definite instrumentality, destined greatly to influence the lives of our people and the internal and external course of the republic.

John L. Lewis

#8. Our internal state determines our experience of our lives; our experiences do not determine our internal state.

Marianne Williamson

#9. Looking through this intimate window, readers have a choice about their own lives. Will they guard their own internal landscapes or lay themselves bare for others to see?

Damali Ayo

#10. People can change their external lives with religion, but a lasting internal change only happens through a daily relationship with Jesus.

Alisa Hope Wagner

#11. I try not to divide plot and character. I get to know a character by what they want and fear and how those internal forces play out in their lives.

Julianna Baggott

#12. When you know what's most important to you, making a decision is quite simple. Most people, though, are unclear about what's most important in their lives, and thus decision making becomes a form of internal torture.

Tony Robbins

#13. Listening to your internal guidance system will lead to a rich, fulfilled, happy life. That's been my experience ... and millions of folks can attest to it in their own lives as well.

Shakti Gawain

#14. In the enlightenment cycle, attention is paid to bringing back the awareness field from other lives. This does not simply mean memory, but rather the internal power and intelligence that you have amassed in other lifetimes.

Frederick Lenz

#15. Our greatest battles lie deep within our own psyches as we face fear, insecurity, and self-doubt. These internal adversaries pose a far greater threat to our lives and our well-being than the external difficulties of daily life. Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. Plato

Dan Millman

#16. We are running up against the difficulty of maintaining a coherent philosophical distinction between giving people the right to stop external or artificial processes that prolong their lives and giving them the right to stop the natural, internal processes that do so

Atul Gawande

#17. The clash is epic and internal, between the ego and the Self, and the stakes are our lives.

Steven Pressfield

#18. One of art's defining characteristics is its relevance to people's shared experiences and also to the reveries and internal dialogues of their interior lives.

Patrick McNaughton

#19. Fiction seeks to represent human experience as it is lived and as it reverberates in our hopes, fears, dreams, and memories. So much of our lives are internal. The art of fiction has claimed - more than anything else - this internal ground as its own.

Varley O'Connor

#20. I am drawn, as a reader, to detail-drenched stories about human lives affected as much by the internal as by the external, the kind of fiction that Jane Smiley nicely describes as 'first and foremost about how individuals fit, or don't fit, into their social worlds.'

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#21. We must endeavor to be whole, whether in or out of a relationship, basing happiness on our own internal resources rather than relying on someone else to full the perceived gaps in our lives.

Shane Eric Mathias

#22. One has a more practical survival level, that's the mind function. The heart function obviously has an internal level that has to do with the quality of developing perceptions, feelings, the self. And the spirit level has to do with the pondering part of our lives.

Caroline Myss

#23. Only internal bliss is perpetual, nothing else is created to last. That's why God lives within us and all storms pass

Carl Henegan

#24. Each of us is born with an internal navigational system. The thinking of the world has a way of switching the system off, but we can always turn it on again through prayer, meditation and forgiveness. Doing this puts us back on track in our lives, making us wise, convicted and powerful.

Marianne Williamson

#25. Every man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion. The external is that complex of devices, techniques, mechanisms, and instrumentalities by means of which we live.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#26. By focusing on love and cultivating an internal security, we can start to take the steps in our lives to create profound change.

Isha Judd

#27. Allure goes beyond appearances to the way they grace the world. Some women propel themselves by means of an internal gyroscope. Others glide through life as if on ice skates. Some women convey their tortured lives through their eyes; others encircle you in the music of their laughter.

Keith Donohue

#28. We spend much of the first half of our lives trying to build internal models that fit the world and much of the last half of our lives trying to adjust the world so it fits the inner models.

Bruce Wexler

#29. Our lives consist of a series of internal battles, deep within us, where weapons don't exist and technology is unable to create devices that better the best of yesterday. Our knowledge is our only defense; caution, our only friend.

A.J. Darkholme

#30. Virtues are the internal qualities that allow us to be our best selves and enable us to lead complete and fulfilling lives.

Jonathan V. Last

#31. While we all need external structure in our lives - some degree of predictability, routine, organization - those with ADD need it much more than most people. They need external structure so much because they so lack internal structure.

Edward M. Hallowell

#32. Love needs no reason material, external. But love lives strongly within reason, internal.

Dew Platt