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To live happily is an inward power of the soul. -- Marcus Aurelius
The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great. -- Meister Eckhart
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. -- Aristotle
Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are. -- Henry Van Dyke
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
Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse. -- Henry Van Dyke
I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent. -- Henry Ward Beecher
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
A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him. -- Soren Kierkegaard
He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly. -- B. C. Forbes
Gaze Upward, Look Inward, Reach Outward, Press Forward. -- Thomas S. Monson
Inward is not a direction. Inward is a dimension. -- Jaggi Vasudev
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
Forget all you know or think you know; Abandon power and enforced decree. Inward, where the deepest rivers flow, Find the currents of eternity.... -- Wayland Drew
Inward solitude has outward manifestations. There is the freedom to be alone, not in order to be away from people but in order to hear the divine Whisper better. -- Richard J. Foster
Inward spiritual practices such as meditation, breathing techniques and self-analysis generate insights and enhance abilities, but none are so useful as learning to live harmoniously in a committed relationship, being a skillful parent, or juggling the demands of daily life. -- Dan Millman
TOPER. Yesterday I carried to wait on a Relation of ours that has a Parrot, and whilst I was discoursing about some private Business, she converted the Bird, and now it talks of nothing but the Light of the Spirit, and the Inward man. -- Susanna Centlivre
...the more strictly and faithfully every man and woman lives up to the guidance and teaching of this Inward Anointing - and never turns aside to the right hand or left for the precepts and traditions of men - the more instruction and help they afford one another. -- Elias Hicks
The longest journey is the journey inward. -- Dag Hammarskjold
Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never. -- Theodore Parker
As we grow old, the beauty steals inward. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Faith is the sight of the inward eye. -- Alexander MacLaren
Baptism is an outward expression of an inward faith. -- Watchman Nee
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances. -- Benjamin Franklin
Those who have no hope pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom. -- Wilfred Owen
Anger is energising. The opposite of anger is depression, which is anger turned inward. -- Gloria Steinem
Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul. -- William Hazlitt
I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward. -- Billie Joe Armstrong
No one can be great, or good, or happy except through the inward efforts of themselves. -- Frederick William Robertson
So this is how you swim inward. So this is how you flow outwards. So this is how you pray. -- Mary Oliver
To discern what weaknesses and faults separate you from God, you must enter into your own inward ground and then confront yourself. -- Johannes Tauler
The inward area is the first place of loss of true Christian life, of true spirituality, and the outward sinful act is the result. -- Francis Schaeffer
War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling. -- William James
I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture. -- Laurence Olivier
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
To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Quietude, which some men cannot abide because it reveals their inward poverty, is as a palace of cedar to the wise, for along its hallowed courts the King in his beauty deigns to walk. -- Charles Spurgeon
As no outward motion or change, when normal, in man's external body can take place unless provoked by an inward impulse, given through one of the three functions named, so with the external or manifested Universe. -- Helena Blavatsky
Sanctification is not to be understood here as a separation from ordinary use or consecration to some special use, although this meaning is often present in Scripture, sometimes referring to outward and sometimes to inward or effectual separation. -- William Ames
Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent. -- Virginia Woolf
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
Instead of looking outside of ourselves and counting potential enemies, fasting summons us to turn our glance inward, and to take the measure of our greatest challenge: the self, the ego, in our own eyes and as others see us. -- Tariq Ramadan
It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle. -- Rollo May
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
Standing on soil feels so much different than standing on city pavement; it lets you look inward and reflect and see who you really are, while you see a beautiful, unspoiled land as far as the eye can see. It allows your inner life to grow. -- Ricardo Montalban
I have a profound belief in the power of the Sacraments. I believe that in a Divine way the use of them teaches the teachable their inward meaning and therefore I think we need be in no hurry to attempt to teach new converts all that we think we know about them. -- Roland Allen
If I have not the power to put myself in the place of other people, but must be continually burrowing inward, I shall never be the magnanimous creative person I wish to be. Yet I am hypnotized by the workings of the individual, alone, and am continually using myself as a specimen. -- Sylvia Plath
We are becoming able to see the pursuit of external power for what it is and the futility of trying to escape the pain of powerlessness by changing the world. When we look inward, not outward, we can dismantle the parts of our personalities that have controlled us for so long - such as anger, jealousy, vindictiveness, superiority, inferiority. -- Gary Zukav
Sanctification is that inward spiritual work which the Lord Jesus Christ works in a man by the Holy Spirit when He calls him to be a true believer. He not only washes him from his sins in His own blood, but He also separates him from his natural love of sin and the world, puts a new principle in his heart and makes him practically godly in life. -- J. C. Ryle
Depression is anger turned inward. -- Sapphire
Vision looks inward and becomes duty. -- Stephen Samuel Wise
Grace is the outcome of inward harmony. -- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
God sweetens outward pain with inward peace. -- Thomas Watson
Without prayer there is no inward peace. -- Mahatma Gandhi
When you're hurting deeply, you go inward. -- Jodi Picoult
Hypocrisy is the outward acknowledgment of inward shame. -- Norm MacDonald
Words . . . present a picture of the inward man. -- John Mott
The wound that bleedeth inward is most dangerous. -- John Lyly
The doorway to success swings outward not inward. -- Robin Sharma
I was born with my eyes turned inward. -- David Joseph Cribbin
Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love? -- John Donne
Turn thy gaze inward, wherein resides the Supreme Self. -- Swami Vivekananda
Honour is external conscience, and conscience is inward honour. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
There never was a war that was not inward. -- Marianne Moore
We always point the lens both outward and inward. -- Paul Caponigro
That inward eye/ Which is the bliss of solitude. -- William Wordsworth
Faith is an outward look, not an inward look. -- Dwight L. Moody
May the outward and inward man be at one. -- Socrates
Attitude is an inward thought that wiggles its way out. -- Joyce Meyer
True goodness is an inward grace, not an outward necessity. -- Ellen Glasgow
Love helps you to know yourself... turn your vision inward. -- Sathya Sai Baba
Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success. -- Kenneth L. Pike
If I rest, if I think inward, I go mad. -- Sylvia Plath
Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success. -- Kenneth L. Pike
Strive to realize a state of inward happiness, independent of circumstances. -- James Pierrepont Greaves
Prayer is either petitional or, in its wider sense, inward communion. -- Mahatma Gandhi
An attitude is: an inward feeling expressed by an outward action. -- John C. Maxwell
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith's usual result. -- William James
This violent rage that turned inward cannot be helped by drink. -- Lou Reed
The more basic the color, the more inward, the more pure. -- Piet Mondrian
The only test of a soul's salvation is its inward happiness. -- Lin Yutang
Importunate praying is the earnest inward movement of the heart toward God. -- Edward McKendree Bounds
Love adorns itself; it seeks to prove inward joy by outward beauty -- Rabindranath Tagore
A man's attire is only an outward projection of his inward self... -- Chris Brown
The ghost is the outward and visible signs of an inward fear. -- Ambrose Bierce
This outward spring and garden are a reflection of the inward garden. -- Rumi
In youth all doors open outward; in old age all open inward. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Our fate is shaped from within ourselves outward, never from without inward. -- Jacques Lusseyran
An outward observance without any real inward meaning is only a ceremony. -- Alfred Edersheim
The person who looks outward dreams, the person who looks inward awakens. -- Carl Jung
To successfully open the door to heightened awareness, we must open it inward. -- Wayne Dyer
All real success springs from that inward might which we exert upon society. -- Alexander Crummell
Adversity not only draws people together, but brings forth that beautiful inward friendship. -- Soren Kierkegaard
We rarely hear the inward music, but we're all dancing to it nevertheless. -- Rumi
The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure - that is the choicest of all. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
The door to my heart opens inward. I move through forgiveness to love. -- Louise Hay
For man may pious texts repeat, And yet religion have no inward seat -- Thomas Hood
Be not dazzled by beauty, but look for those inward qualities which are lasting. -- Seneca the Younger
Spiritual power comes out of inward fellowship with God and abandonment to his purposes. -- E. Stanley Jones
Tattoos to me are the outward symbol of the inward change within my soul. -- Nicolas Cage
Being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which psychoanalysis is powerless to bestow. -- Sebastian Horsley
The computer actually may have aggravated management's degenerative tendency to focus inward on costs. -- Peter Drucker
The farther the outward journey takes you, the deeper the inward journey must be. -- Henri Nouwen
Worship is an inward feeling and outward action that reflects the worth of God. -- John Piper
No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell! -- Lord Byron
The Holy Ghost is the greatest guarantor of inward peace in our unstable world. -- James E. Faust
O England! Model to thy inward greatness, like little body with a might heart. -- William Shakespeare
Nothing is more difficult to accomplish than changing outward actions without changing inward feelings. -- John C. Maxwell
Just try to keep the heart turned outward, as well as having moments inward. -- Kimbra
You gotta go inward To experience the outer space That was built for you -- Pharrell Williams
Turn your vision inward and the whole world will be full of supreme spirit. -- Ramana Maharshi
When our life ceases to be inward and private, conversation degenerates into mere gossip. -- Henry David Thoreau
Agosins poetic language engages the reader in a mesmerizing journey of inward reflection and exile. -- Isabel Allende
True inward quietness ... is not vacancy, but stability - the steadfastness of a single purpose. -- Caroline Emelia Stephen
There are two kinds of authors - subjective and objective. Introverts are more inward looking. -- Ruskin Bond
... when one's outward lot is perfect, the sense of inward imperfection is the more pressing. -- George Eliot
Happiness is a choice. Happiness does not depend on outward conditions but on inward decisions. -- Cameron C. Taylor
When I speak of religion I mean a constant inward sense of communion with God ... -- Rachel Simon
You turn inward. There's nothing to distract you, so you begin to look at yourself. -- Joseph Frank Bianco

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