Quotes about Inner self

Too often we use petty little petitions, oratorical exercises, or the words of others rather than the cries of our inmost being. When you pray, pray!

What is it, then, that comprises our deepest selves and gives us worth?

Let us wash the cosmetics from our souls and look at the unadorned condition of our hearts.

Your true heart is best revealed in secret. In other words, the secret you is the real you.

We are containers, it's only the insides of our bodies that are important.

Inside John, she thinks, is another John, who is much nicer. This other John will emerge like a butterfly from a cocoon, a Jack from a box, a pit from a prune, if the first John is only squeezed enough.

Peter needs tenderness. For the first time in his life he's discovered a girl; for the first time he's seen that even the biggest pests also have an inner self and a heart, and are transformed as soon as they're alone with you.

When the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface

You're just constantly outputting, and giving all you know so you don't have time to look inside of yourself and to really reflect. The four years at drama school really gave me that time and space.

Outside influences, outside circumstances, wind the MAN and regulate him. Left to himself, he wouldn't get regulated at all, and the sort of time he would keep would not be valuable. Some rare men are wonderful watches, with gold case, compensation balance, and all those things, and some men are only simple and sweet and humble Waterburys. I am a Waterbury.

know that I'm not a human being having a spiritual experience. I'm a spiritual being having a human experience.

I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.