#inner

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #inner




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

The hardest novel to write was Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant.


Anne Tyler


#hardest #homesick #novel #restaurant #write

King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.


Benjamin Disraeli


#attributed #british #dinner #great #great success

Well let's face it, who on earth besides antique dealers and gay couples actually still give dinner parties?


Nigel Slater


#food #gay #gay-stereotypes #homosexuality #party

In the inner city, there's a mentality that the government owes you something. My breakthrough came when I stopped feeling sorry for myself and took responsibility for every part of my life. No more pity parties. I've gotta love me more than anybody else loves me.


Mary J. Blige


#breakthrough #came #city #else #every

I love it when talented actors can bring characters to life. Anybody who wears their feelings on their sleeve and has a harder, crusty shell - like I do - is definitely protecting an inner sensitivity.


Fred Durst


#bring #characters #definitely #feelings #harder

In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner.


Umberto Eco


#countries #ethic #good #latin #mythology

Some of the most important conversations I've ever had occurred at my family's dinner table.


Bob Ehrlich


#conversations #dinner #dinner table #ever #had

How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.


Franz Kafka


#how #inner #inner world #knowledge #my self

I'm into all that sappy stuff - a surprise picnic, nice dinner, or traveling. I'm kind of an old romantic.


Will Estes


#dinner #i #into #kind #nice