Outer Life Quotes

“...for we have found that by excluding we grow thin inside even though we may have an enormous bank account outside.”
― John Cage, Silence: Lectures and Writings

“They led a life that she could not attain to—the outer life of 'telegrams and anger,' which had detonated when Helen and Paul had touched in June, and had detonated again the other week.”
― E.M. Forster, Howards End

“Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever, and not this outer life of telegrams and anger.”
― E.M. Forster, Howards End

“If a person’s inner life gets disturbed, his outer life will get disturbed too and he will fail to reflect his inner life to the outer world”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“...Rogers offered this definitive observation to a meeting of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry: "It's easy to convince people that children need to learn the alphabet and numbers...How do we help people to realize that what matters even more than the superimposition of adult symbols is how a person's inner life finally puts together the alphabet and numbers of his outer life? What really matters is whether he uses the alphabet for the declaration of war or the description of a sunrise--his numbers for the final count at Buchenwald or the specifics of a brand-new bridge.”
― Maxwell King, The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers