The strength of every individual is the grace for great work.

— Lailah Gifty Akita

The victory over our inner self is a daily struggle. Be strong and do not give up.

— Lailah Gifty Akita

The "whole good" cannot be had, it would seem, without mustering all the strength of our inner life. Even in the sphere of external possessions there are goods which inherently demand, if they are to be truly ours, far more of us than mere acquisition. "'My garden,' the rich man said; his gardener smiled.

— Josef Pieper

...to know another's interior life you are his confessor or a writer - the one is admitted freely, the other intrudes by discerning of spirits

— John Geddes

Was this what the city would look like when knowledge was no longer enough? When the desire to turn inward, surrendering entirely to one's own private world of nonresistance, overwhelmed, like creeping ivy, our desire to know worlds beyond it?

— Olivia Sudjic

What a huge inaccessible lumber-room of thought and experience we amounted to, I thought; how much we are, how little we transmit.

— H.G. Wells

What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself. All day long, the mill of his brain is grinding, and his thoughts, not those of other things, are his history. These are his life, and they are not written. Every day would make a whole book of 80,000 words -- 365 books a year. Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man -- the biography of the man himself cannot be written.

— Mark Twain

What goes on inside isn't ever the same as what goes on outside.

— Margaret Laurence

When I first tried a sensory deprivation tank, people thought I had lost my mind. In fact, I had found it.

— Ryan Lilly

When you're living so intensely in your head there isn't any different between what you imagine and what actually takes place. Therefore, you're both omnipotent and powerless.

— Chris Kraus