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Happiness can only be achieved by looking inward & learning to enjoy whatever life has and this requires transforming greed into gratitude. -- Saint John Chrysostom
We may be focused on looking forward and upward yet looking inward can be the easiest path to take. -- Raphael Zernoff
To gain an overall understanding of oneself does not require looking outward - it requires the strength of looking inward. -- Michelle Cruz
Happiness can only be achieved by looking inward & learning to enjoy whatever life has and this requires transforming greed into gratitude. -- Saint John Chrysostom
Spiritual growth-looking inward-is replacing the pursuit of external power-reaching outward to manipulate and control-as the cure for the insecurity at the core of human experience. -- Gary Zukav
We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet. -- Stephen Hawking
We have been to the moon, we have charted the depths of the ocean and the heart of the atom, but we have a fear of looking inward to ourselves because we sense that is where all the contradictions flow together. -- Terence McKenna
For me, 'Atmosphere' was more about looking inwards and reaching out to people close to me. To emphasize the fact that I'm singing on the first single, this album is really more about me and songs that I've written instead of collaborating with people. -- Kaskade
I think music is about our internal life. It's part of the way people touch each other. That's very precious to me. And astronomy is, in a sense, the very opposite thing. Instead of looking inwards, you are looking out, to things beyond our grasp. -- Brian May
Meditation is valuable for all of humanity because it involves looking inward. People don't have to be religious to look inside themselves more carefully. It is constructive and worthwhile to analyze our emotions, including compassion and our sense of caring, so that we can become more calm and happy. -- Dalai Lama
The world is living today in what might be described as an era of carnality, which glorifies sex, hates restraint, identifies purity with coldness, innocence with ignorance, and turns men and women into Buddhas with their eyes closed, hands folded across their breasts, intently looking inward, thinking only of self. -- Fulton J. Sheen
Yes, in all my research, the greatest leaders looked inward and were able to tell a good story with authenticity and passion. -- Deepak Chopra
People talk about Japanese kids as being inward-looking. But my experience is that if you offer them an opportunity, they'll take it. -- John Roos
There's a tendency in many politicians to become inward-looking, more protectionist, more nationalistic and more defensive, in the bad sense of the word. -- Jose Manuel Barroso
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
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
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
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
I think playing somebody who's schizophrenic is such a lesson as an actor. It gets you totally out of your comfort zone, because you can't rely on your technique, your external stuff. You've really gotta look inward, in a way. -- Matt Dillon
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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
Those who today always look for disciplinarian solutions, those who long for an exaggerated doctrinal 'security,' those who stubbornly try to recover a past that no longer exists - they have a static and inward-directed view of things. In this way, faith becomes an ideology among other ideologies. -- Pope Francis
The traditional writer is a sensitive only child, asthmatic, who sits on the window seat watching the drops of rain slide down the pane, very introspective. I'm not inward-looking. I would never go to a shrink. I don't want to know what I'm thinking. I don't really like discussions in my family. It may be an avoidance thing. -- Deborah Moggach
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
Rust' really started with the passing of my dad, and me really looking back inward to my self about where I stand with all things on a faith/religious/spiritual level. And it's really put me on this interesting road and very educational, I might add, road back to understanding the role of faith in God and Christ in my life. -- Corbin Bernsen
There are two kinds of authors - subjective and objective. Introverts are more inward looking. -- Ruskin Bond
I would suggest that the next generation stop looking for happiness outside of themselves but instead turn inward. -- Gabrielle Bernstein
To look for a job before looking deeply inward is likely to short-circuit the process of finding your calling. -- Dan Miller
To have a deeper understanding of life one must pause from looking outward and travel inward into the depths of consciousness. -- Jiulio Consiglio
We are always looking for solutions from someone else. We forget that if we turn our mind inward, we can get some ideas, some solutions. -- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Look upward to your God for direction! Look inward into yourself and discover your talents! Look outward into your environment and get helped! Stop looking at one direction! -- Israelmore Ayivor

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