Internal World Quotes

“Resisting life's predictable challenges and cultivating inner stillness and peace of mind means good management of our internal world amid external chaos. It enhances our confidence in preserving the transparency of our thinking. (“Finally unwind “)”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Fall in love with yourself, and everyone will love you. Listen to your inner voice, and everyone will listen to you. Change yourself, and everything will change. Learn how to regulate your internal world, and the external world will be automatically regulated.”
― Elmar Hussein

“You would like to read my thoughts about you, my feelings for you, but I am your experience in which you live, long before being a person which you could know. Therefore, begin with your heart and soul, I'm partially hidden inside you. External world, outside your heart and soul, involves only a part of my experience.”
― Elmar Hussein

“What went on in that head of his? I would soon come to understand that he gave voice to only a fraction of the thoughts that swam behind his eyes. It was not nearly so clean and smooth in there as it seemed. Other lives were housed in that mind, parallel worlds. Maybe we’re all built a little bit that way. But most of us drop hints. Most of us leave clues. My father was more careful.
When I think now of that moment in the kitchen, an almost unbelievable thought comes to my mind: There was a time when those two people - that man hunched at the table and that woman shouting in a bathrobe - were young. The proof was in the pictures that hung on the living room walls, a pretty girl and a bookish guy, a studio apartment in a crumbling Hollywood building overlooking a courtyard and a kidney-shaped pool. This was the mythical period before I was born, when my mother was not a mother and was instead an actress who might make it someday/. How much sweeter life would be if it all happened in reverse, if, after decades of disappointment, you finally arrived at an age when you had conceded nothing, when everything was possible. I like to think about how my parents’ lives once shimmered in front of them, half hidden, like buried gold. Back then the future was whatever they imagined - and they never imagined this.”
― Karen Thompson Walker, The Age of Miracles