The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
Paul Cezanne

There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.
Black Elk

It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected people within its confusion.
Zora Neale Hurston

Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives.
Vladimir Nabokov

I can be intimidating, but not within the confines of a film shoot.
Jeanne Moreau

The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at.
Jesse Owens

You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover.
Henri Matisse

I think the quality of sexiness comes from within. It is something that is in you or it isn't and it really doesn't have much to do with breasts or thighs or the pout of your lips.
Sophia Loren

Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others.
Marian Wright Edelman

He that has light within his own clear breast May sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself his own dungeon.
John Milton

He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.
John Milton

The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.
Gaston Bachelard

So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
Gaston Bachelard

Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action.
Orison Swett Marden

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.
George Sand

In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.
Dante Alighieri

I wept not, so to stone within I grew.
Dante Alighieri

Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.
Diogenes

Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.
George Herbert

My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity.
Arthur Ashe