Inward famous quotes
05-15-2025
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Nothing is more stimulating and more salutary to (or for) the inner (or inward) development than the exemple of men devoted to the good. It is in the company of men pursuing a same ideal that the still weavering (or unsteady) soul can set oneself ("se fixer", Fr) and stick to (or attach to) everything that is noble and generous.
-- African Spir -
The precept to worship God 'in spirit and in truth' recommand to worship him as an inward and moral force, without physical attributes and with no relation to fears and egoist wishes.
-- African Spir -
Certain temperaments respond to anxiety by pulling inward. Their instincts tell them ' Don't go out to meet the world - you'll have a panic attack. Inside is where safety is.
-- Aimee Liu -
In this way, if you continue all the time in the way we have described from the beginning, it will become as easy and clear for you to remain in contemplation in your inward and recollected state, as to live in the natural state.
-- Albertus Magnus -
Let me be one of the upward and outward lookers, not one of the downward and inward lookers.
-- Alfred Edersheim -
The ghost is the outward and visible signs of an inward fear.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
The government is also looking at further benefits including enhanced capital allowances; the use of Tax Incremental Finance; and extra help from UK Trade and Investment on inward investment and trade opportunities.
-- Andy Sawford -
Always have the situation under control, even if losing. Never betray an inward sense of defeat.
-- Arthur Ashe -
As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.
-- B.K.S. Iyengar -
Illuminated emancipation, freedom, unalloyed and untainted bliss await you, but you have to choose to embark on the Inward Journey to discover it
-- B.K.S. Iyengar -
It takes courage and intelligence, you know, to do the stages of Yoga right, and to start with this Hatha Yoga… It’s just you and nothing but you, standing in one spot frozen like a statue with no place to go for help or excuse or scapegoat except inward.
-- Bikram Choudhury -
Wear modest, clean clothing. Your clothing doesn't need to be new and [it] should have some fashion of course, but [it] should be clean, modest, and neat. Be dignified in your outward manner and in your inward morality.
-- Bruce R. McConkie -
There is no form of conviction more intimate and irresistible than that which arises from the inward teaching of the Spirit.
-- Charles Hodge -
A man's attire is only an outward projection of his inward self...
-- Chris Brown -
You see, religion alone can only take a person so far. Religion can make us nice, but only Christ can make us new. Religion focuses on outward behavior. Relationship is an inward transformation. Religion focuses on what I do, while relationship centers on what Jesus did. Religion is about me. Relationship is about Jesus
-- Craig Groeschel -
The longest journey is the journey inward.
-- Dag Hammarskjold -
When your institution is under assault, you're feeling like the weight is on it and the history might be flowing away, don't turn inward, go outward.
-- David Brooks -
When your institution is under threat, you feel you have a lot of hostility, you feel things are slipping away, you have got internal problems, there's a tendency to turn inward and to focus on yourselves.
-- David Brooks -
This is the curse of superficial religion: the constant attempt to do outward things apart from inward transformation.
-- David Platt -
The inward journey is about finding your own fullness, something that no one else can take away.
-- Deepak Chopra -
Never forget that you are not in the world; the world is in you. When anything happens to you, take the experience inward. Creation is set up to bring you constant hints and clues about your role as co-creator. Your soul is metabolizing experience as surely as your body is metabolizing food
-- Deepak Chopra -
One must not look inward too much, while the inside is yet tender. I do not wish to frighten myself until I can stand it.
-- Djuna Barnes -
Mindfulness has helped me succeed in almost every dimension of my life. By stopping regularly to look inward and become aware of my mental state, I stay connected to the source of my actions and thoughts and can guide them with considerably more intention.
-- Dustin Moskovitz -
Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are.
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin -
Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths.
-- Epictetus -
Each of us must turn inward and destroy in himself all that he thinks he ought to destroy in others.
-- Etty Hillesum -
Anger can be borne - it can even be satisfying - if it can gather into words and explode in a storm, or a rapier-sharp attack. But without these means of ventilation, it only turns back inward, building and swirling like a head of stream - building to an impotent, murderous rage.
-- Eva Hoffman -
When we want to know God's will, there are three things which always concur: the inward impulse, the Word of God and the trend of circumstances. Never act until these three things agree.
-- F.B. Meyer -
What follows is more about books than it is about me, but nonetheless it is my inward autobiography, for the words we take into ourselves help to shape us.
-- Francis Spufford -
In a sacred moment, when attention is pulled inward, rather than continuing in its usual outward direction, silence is realized.
-- Gangaji -
I'm not saying there's not darkness in there still, but it's happening from outward factors more than inward. Maybe things are terrifying, but they're beautiful, too. The world is extremely surprising.
-- Gary Lightbody -
... when one's outward lot is perfect, the sense of inward imperfection is the more pressing.
-- George Eliot -
The growth of the soul may be compared to the growth of a plant. In both cases, no new properties are imparted by the operation of external causes, but only the inward tendencies are called into action and clothed with strength.
-- George Ripley -
Yes, there is a Divinity, one from which we must never turn aside for the guidance of our huge inward life and of the share we have as well in the life of all men. It is called the truth.
-- Henri Barbusse -
The farther the outward journey takes you, the deeper the inward journey must be.
-- Henri Nouwen -
In winter we lead a more inward life. Our hearts are warm and cheery, like cottages under drifts...
-- Henry David Thoreau -
In youth all doors open outward; in old age all open inward.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -
The raw beauty of Natalia Ginzburg’s prose compels our gaze. First we look inward, with the shock of recognition inspired by all great writing, and then, inevitably, out at the shared world she evokes with such uncompromising clarity.
-- Hilma Wolitzer -
We are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness is the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason.
-- Iris Murdoch -
To see the dull indifference, the negligent and thoughtless air that sits upon the faces of a whole assembly, while the psalm is upon their lips, might even tempt a charitable observer to suspect the fervency of their inward religion.
-- Isaac Watts -
In history the way of annihilation is invariably prepared by inward degeneration, by decrease of life. Only then can a shock from outside put an end to the whole.
-- Jacob Burckhardt -
Our fate is shaped from within ourselves outward, never from without inward.
-- Jacques Lusseyran -
Inward is not a direction. Inward is a dimension.
-- Jaggi Vasudev -
The journey of true success and lasting leaderships begins with the inward journey to the soul.
-- James Arthur Ray -
The crisis of the church is not at its deepest level a crisis of authority, or a crisis of dogmatic theology. It is a crisis of powerlessness in which our sole recourse is to call on the help and inward power of the Holy Spirit.
-- James K. Baxter -
Strive to realize a state of inward happiness, independent of circumstances.
-- James Pierrepont Greaves -
Evil is a far more cunning and persevering propagandist than good, for it has no inward strength, and is driven to seek countenance and sympathy.
-- James Russell Lowell -
Why in the case of the ear, is there withdrawal and turning inward, a making resonant, but in the case of the eye, there is manifestation and display, a making evident?
-- Jean-Luc Nancy -
Surrender yourselves then to be led and disposed of just as God pleases, with respect both to your outward and inward state.
-- Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon -
I wanted to go to a place where I could think, really sink into my own imagination, or ride it, or drift along it, as in a balloon. The kind of place that probably all writers crave. The kind of place where the outside world is still and quiet and you get a chance to listen, to peer, to go inward
-- Jeanne Marie Laskas -
Fear begins and ends with the desire to be secure; inward and outward security, with the desire to be certain, to have permanency. The continuity of permanence is sought in every direction, in virtue, in relationship, in action, in experience, in knowledge, in outward and inward things. To find security and be secure is the everlasting cry. It is this insistent demand that breeds fear.
-- Jiddu Krishnamurti -
To discern what weaknesses and faults separate you from God, you must enter into your own inward ground and then confront yourself.
-- Johannes Tauler -
Shakespeare was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of the books to read nature; he looked inward, and found her there.
-- John Dryden -
A civilization that only looks inward will stagnate. We have to keep looking outward; we have to keep finding new avenues for human endeavor and human expression.
-- John L. Phillips -
The wound that bleedeth inward is most dangerous.
-- John Lyly -
Words . . . present a picture of the inward man.
-- John Mott -
As I got into high school and after puberty, I was a little more inward. I was a real extrovert when I was little, but I don't know, I just got quieter With my friends, I was still an extrovert.
-- John Mulaney -
We are the strongest filter we can place before the lens. We point the lens both outward and inward.
-- John Paul Caponigro -
The central tenet of Christianity as it has come down to us is that we are to reach out when our instinct is to pull inward; to give when we want to take; to love when we are inclined to hate; to include when are tempted to exclude.
-- Jon Meacham -
The ground of being is the ground of our being, and when we simply turn outward, we see all of these little problems here and there. But, if we look inward, we see that we are the source of them all.
-- Joseph Campbell -
You turn inward. There's nothing to distract you, so you begin to look at yourself.
-- Joseph Frank Bianco -
Attitude is an inward thought that wiggles its way out.
-- Joyce Meyer -
We may restrict the expression of worship for a season, just as we may briefly hold our breath, but there is an inward craving for worship that cannot be permanently stilled
-- Judson Cornwall -
Even as a child she had lived her own small life within herself. At a very early period she had apprehended instinctively the dual life - that outward existence which conforms, the inward life which questions.
-- Kate Chopin -
Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success.
-- Kenneth Lee Pike -
Look at the pattern this seashell makes. The dappled whorl, curving inward to infinity. That's the shape of the universe itself. There's constant pressure, pushing towards pattern. A tendency in matter to evolve into ever more complex forms. It's a kind of pattern gravity, a holy greening power we call 'Viriditas' and it is the driving force in the cosmos. Life, you see.
-- Kim Stanley Robinson -
An inward sincerity will of course influence the outward deportment; but where the one is wanting, there is great reason to suspect the absence of the other.
-- Laurence Sterne -
Take the very hardest thing in your life - the place of difficulty, outward or inward, and expect God to triumph gloriously in that very spot. Just there He can bring your soul into blossom.
-- Lilias Trotter -
The steadily inward look leads us all to death, nations as well as persons, and is equally infantile in them all. Perhaps the most useful thing I have learned in my lifetime is that the process of maturing gradually turns the mind away from the small-self to the greater-self that is only served by serving others.
-- Margery Wilson -
There never was a war that was not inward.
-- Marianne Moore -
Grace is the outcome of inward harmony.
-- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach -
When you are with the wrong person, who doesn't really love you, all you want is to be adored. It makes you more inward and needy. Gross.
-- Marina and the Diamonds -
It is not in the outward and visible world of material life that the Celtic genius of Wales or Ireland can at this day hope to count for much; it is in the inward world of thought and science.What it has been, what is has done, what it will be or will do, as a matter of modern politics.
-- Matthew Arnold -
Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.
-- Matthew Arnold -
Feuerbach ... recognizes ... "even love, in itself the truest, most inward sentiment, becomes an obscure, illusory one through religiousness, since religious love loves man only for God's sake, therefore loves man only apparently, but in truth God only." Is this different with moral love? Does it love the man, this man for this man's sake, or for morality's sake, for Man's sake, and so-for ***** homini Deus-for God's sake?
-- Max Stirner -
The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great.
-- Meister Eckhart -
The outward work can never be small if the inward one is great, and the outward work can never be great or good if the inward is small or of little worth.
-- Meister Eckhart -
Some people want to see God with their eyes as they see a cow, and to love Him as they love a cow - for the milk and cheese and profit it brings them. This is how it is with people who love God for the sake of outward wealth or inward comfort. They do not rightly love God, when they love Him for their own advantage.
-- Meister Eckhart -
Every government program needs to be more efficient. Instead of pointing out how other programs can tighten their belts, every program administrator must look inward to save money.
-- Michael Enzi -
To gain an overall understanding of oneself does not require looking outward - it requires the strength of looking inward.
-- Michelle Cruz -
...what I dread more than anything else in this life is noise...silence helps you to go inward..anyone who is interested in something more than just life outside actually needs silence.
-- Muriel Barbery -
The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure - that is the choicest of all.
-- Nathaniel Hawthorne -
The seeker after stillness should be told that the stillness is always there. Indeed it is in every man. But he has to learn, first, to let it in and, second, how to do so. The first beginning of this is to remember. The second is to recognize the inward pull. For the rest, the stillness itself will guide and lead him to itself.
-- Paul Brunton -
I believed that by a process of what I can only describe as inward dilation of the eyes I could increase my actual vision.
-- Paul Nash -
You gotta go inward To experience the outer space That was built for you
-- Pharrell Williams -
The more basic the color, the more inward, the more pure.
-- Piet Mondrian -
If our inward griefs were seen written on our brow, how many would be pitied who are now envied! [It., Se a ciascun l'interno affanno Si leggesse in fronte scritto, Quanti mai, che invidia fanno, Ci farebbero pieta!].
-- Pietro Metastasio -
When I speak of religion I mean a constant inward sense of communion with God ...
-- Rachel Simon -
To ask the mind to kill itself is like making the thief the policeman. He will go with you and pretend to catch the thief, but nothing will be gained. So you must turn inward and see where the mind rises from, and then it will cease to exist.
-- Ramana Maharshi -
Great are the symbols of Being, But that which is symboled is greater; Vast the create and beheld, But vaster the Inward Creator.
-- Richard Realf -
Living wisdom cannot be confined within words, but it can be hinted at through situations, much as a specific feature of an otherwise undistinguished landscape can often be discerned by following the path projected by a pointing finger. "Them that have ears, let them hear," said Jesus; whoever "hears" the inner import of words will be able to "see" their inward meaning.
-- Robert Svoboda -
Any single path truly taken leads to all the others. What matters is choosing a starting place - where to stand and begin spinning outward. Even then, you will find that outward and inward become the same direction. The center of the wheel is everywhere.
-- Robin Morgan -
The doorway to success swings outward not inward.
-- Robin Sharma -
Pity for him who one day looks uponhis inward sphinx and questions it. He is lost.
-- Ruben Dario -
We rarely hear the inward music, but we're all dancing to it nevertheless.
-- Rumi -
Beg of God the removal of envy, that God may deliver you from externals, and bestow upon you an inward occupation, which will absorb you so that your attention is not drawn away.
-- Rumi -
Take a few moments every day to sit in silence and turn your full awareness inward to connect with your Spirit. These moments of silence can occur anytime and anyplace. The more you learn to tune in wherever you are, the easier it will become.
-- Sonia Choquette -
Vision looks inward and becomes duty.
-- Stephen Samuel Wise -
Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.
-- Theodore Parker
