Inner Self Quotes

“Deep within, there is something profoundly known, not consciously, but subconsciously. A quiet truth, that is not a version of something, but an original knowing. What this, absolute, truth [identity] is may be none of our business…but it is there, guiding us along the path of greater becoming; a true awareness. It is so self-sustaining that our recognition of it is not required. We are offspring’s of such a powerfully divine force – Creator of all things known and unknown.”
― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence

“Both friend and enemy reside within us. One lives by the rule of compassion, the other by the rule of hard knocks. Though potential influence of either extreme is inevitable, our actions bear witness to the one we embrace.”
― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence

“It was time to bring out the world destructive weapons. It was now time to hit him where it would do the biggest damage, his pride.”
― Ottilie Weber, Family Ties

“Spiritually is finding the truth in you.”
― Wes Adamson

“The desire for connection with the Divine and our formless inner self is at the foundation of all desire for human connection.”
― Donna Goddard

“Faith in God is optional, but faith in the self – in the spirit within, is imperative.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Principia Humanitas

“Whenever we look around the world, we see smart leaders – in politics, in business, in media – making terrible decisions. What they're lacking is not IQ, but wisdom. Which is no surprise; it has never been harder to tap into our inner wisdom, because in order to do so, we have to disconnect from all our omnipresent devices – our gadgets, our screens, our social media – and reconnect with ourselves.”
― Arianna Huffington, Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder

“Day or night, good or bad…all things from within.”
― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence

“Pasmo sempre quando acabo qualquer coisa. Pasmo e desolo-me. O meu instinto de perfeição deveria inibir-me de acabar; deveria inibir-me até de dar começo. Mas distraio-me e faço. O que consigo é um produto, em mim, não de uma aplicação de vontade, mas de uma cedência dela. Começo porque não tenho força para pensar; acabo porque não tenho alma para suspender. Este livro é a minha cobardia.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“When Nureyev appeared in San Francisco not long ago there were quite a few ballet fans who flew all the way from New York to see him. The mystics would point out how fruitless it is to go to see important people when our first priority is to see ourselves. We think we know Tom, Dick and Harry, but we really know everyone, including ourselves, only on the surface level. If we could see our real Self coming down the street, we would wonder who this beautiful, radiant, magnificent creature could be. We would not be able to take our eyes off him.”
― Eknath Easwaran, The End of Sorrow

“True rest comes from surrender, calling an end to the struggle between the false identity forged by hurt, pain and disappointment, and our real identity in Christ.”
― Laura Gagnon, The Book Satan Doesn't Want You To Read

“I am not fearless; no one is. I stay calm and positive. And let my inner rhythm dictate me. I have a great trust in my spirit.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“When the dark stops hating the light and the light stops hating the dark, then we can play in shades of gray. Then we have space.”
― Erin Currin, Hate Your Way to Happiness: Cultivating self-love even when you feel like sh!t

“What sleeps inside us wants to wake us up.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“I don't outsource, I am the source.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“Imagine for a moment that within your mind sits a grand council table, and around it gather a pantheon of gods.”
― Kevin L. Michel, The Council of Gods

“The body is a mirror of the mind and soul, and often, when emotions go unprocessed, they become lodged in certain energetic centers or organs.”
― Jashanjot Kaur Bhatia, ENERGY OF THE SOUL: A JOURNEY FROM NOTHING TO BOUNDLESS HEALING

“A hidden gem beneath it all.”
― Delphanie Frank

“She began to get stressed worried agitated furious apprehensive provoked scared irate troubled, and very uneasy. Her mind was a jumble of fears.”
― H.C. Roberts, Harp and the Lyre: Exchange

“These dreams of far-off islands, lighthouses... What were they about? Like something calling me. That postcard my dad had sent, who knew when, with an image of an island in the Atlantic. I kept thinking of this National Geographic story I had read as a kid, about a matrilineal family of lighthouse keepers in Iceland, women who wore sealskin coats and were said by the locals to be descended from a Selkie woman. The Icelandic mermaids. Maybe I was like that--- too much time on the land, forgetting my true mermaid self, having lost my sea skin.”
― Victoria Benton Frank, The Violet Hour

“Tune the inner self for improving the living standards”
― Davidson Prabu

“Outside my window a pair of seagulls called. Probably looking for food to steal, the little bastards. Their cries made me think of the ocean, and in that split second, I was okay. I took a deep, calming breath. The ocean. It always evened out my mood. My own little magical place filled with peace.”
― Sabrina Blackburry, Dirty Lying Sirens

“Be silent and listen to your inner self. For silence is not emptiness—
it is the sacred language of the universe, where truth softly speaks.”
― Debasish Mridha M.D., Verses Of Inner Peace

“The world may shake, but peace within makes you unshakable”
― Bikramjit Konwar

“The moment you describe who you are, you’re speaking through the lens of your own perception.”
― Shamail Aijaz

“Inside every adult lives both a teenager and a child: the child stays completely hidden, but the teenager is let loose only in the privacy of close friends.”
― Criss Jami

“The inner life, given genuine attention, reveals a self of surprising depth — complex, contradictory, occasionally difficult, and irreducibly valuable.”
― Ayisha Bhatti, The Unhurried Soul: Learning to Live from the Inside Out

“We have mistaken information for wisdom, connectivity for connection, and stimulation for aliveness. They are not the same things. They have never been the same things.”
― Ayisha Bhatti, The Unhurried Soul: Learning to Live from the Inside Out

“A person cannot rise while carrying what was never meant to be part of them. The lower self is not the essence of a human being. It is the accumulation of habits, impulses, fears, and desires that form over time. These qualities feel familiar, but they are not foundational. They are layers that obscure the soul’s original clarity. When they dominate, they distort perception. They make a noble soul believe it is ordinary. They make a luminous heart believe it is dim. They make a capable spirit believe it is weak. This forgetfulness is the real fall — not a fall from God, but a fall from one’s own potential.

The qualities that weigh a person down are not simply moral flaws. They are barriers. Arrogance blinds. Jealousy corrodes. Greed consumes. Resentment hardens. Dishonesty fractures the inner world. The hunger for validation enslaves. The refusal to forgive imprisons. These traits do not merely harm others; they diminish the one who carries them. They pull the soul downward, away from its natural orientation toward light.”
― Ayisha Bhatti, THOUGHTS UNATTENDED: On the truths that surface in stillness

“We have become, without realizing it, the most demanding audience our own life has ever had.”
― Ayisha Bhatti, The Unhurried Soul: Learning to Live from the Inside Out