#inner life

Like everything genuine, its inner life guarantees its truth. All works of art created by truthful minds without regard for the work's conventional exterior remain genuine for all times. ↗

— Franz Marc

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Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet. ↗

— Lewis Mumford

#fact #inner #inner life #interruption #life

It is a miracle of harmony, of the adaptation of the free inner life to the outward necessity of things. ↗

— John C. Ransom

#free #harmony #inner #inner life #life

We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful. ↗

— Mary Antin

#birth #bits #body #born #exceedingly

Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#action #attention #both #cases #choice

And no book gives a deeper insight into the inner life of the Negro, his struggles and his aspirations, than, The Souls of Black Folk. ↗

— Ray Stannard Baker

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I wanted to live the inner life of every man I saw, look at the world through his eyes. ↗

— Aleksandr Kuprin

#every man #eyes #his #i #inner

Standing on soil feels so much different than standing on city pavement; it lets you look inward and reflect and see who you really are, while you see a beautiful, unspoiled land as far as the eye can see. It allows your inner life to grow. ↗

— Ricardo Montalban

#as far as #beautiful #city #different #eye

Images adorn our inner life and carry great power there. ↗

— William Shirley

#carry #great #great power #images #inner

After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life. ↗

— Evelyn Underhill

#after #best #deal #deep #details