True art and true science possess two unmistakable marks: the first, an inward mark, which is this, that the servitor of art… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
In this country, unfortunately, as all over the world, we care so little, we have no deep feeling about anything. Most of… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The steadily inward look leads us all to death, nations as well as persons, and is equally infantile in them all. Perhaps… — Margery Wilson Copy Share Image
Truth is a very different thing from fact; it is the loving contact of the soul with spiritual fact, vital and potent.… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
True inward quietness is not that which may be produced by shutting out all outward causes of distraction -- a process which,… — Caroline Emelia Stephen Copy Share Image
A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Give up the feeling of responsibility, let go your hold, resign the care of your destiny to higher powers, be genuinely indifferent… — William James Copy Share Image
As soon as you direct such a question outward to your fellow man and not inward to yourself, you have set yourself… — Tito Colliander Copy Share Image
Never had the sky been more studded with stars and more charming, the trees more trembling, the odor of the grass more… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
There is no art which affords less opportunity to execute expression than photography. Everything is concentrated in a few seconds, when after… — Sadakichi Hartmann Copy Share Image
It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
I believe that it may be normal, healthy, and even productive to experience mild to moderate depression from time to time as… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
Thinking about time is to acknowledge two contradictory certainties: that our outward lives are governed by the seasons and the clock; that… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
As I get older, I find myself getting angrier and angrier. Doubtless, change itself, not to mention physical decline and inevitable petty… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
The city sleeps and the country sleeps, the living sleep for their time, the dead sleep for their time, the old husband… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create - so that without the creating of music or… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
The happiness for which our souls ache is one undisturbed by success or failure, one which will root deeply inside us and… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
I saw that the kingdom must be interior before it can be exterior, that it is a kingdom of ideas, and not… — Hannah Whitall Smith Copy Share Image
In a world that is deepening its mutual interdependence, inward-focused thinking is no longer able to safeguard the peace of Japan. We… — Shinzo Abe Copy Share Image
To realize that one is really alone, gives new courage to the person. Discovery of truth is a journey, a voyage on… — Vimala Thakar Copy Share Image
Yoga is as old and traditional as civilization, yet it persists in modern society as a means to achieving essential vitality. But… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
In winter we lead a more inward life. Our hearts are warm and cheery, like cottages under drifts, whose windows and doors… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Do not confuse understanding with a larger vocabulary, sacred writings are beneficial in stimulating desire for inward realization, if one stanza at… — Sri Yukteswar Giri Copy Share Image
Direct your attention inward. Have a look inside yourself. What kind of thoughts is your mind producing? What do you feel? Direct… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I cleanse the windows of my mind, that it may become a mirror reflecting inspiration from the most High. I do this,… — Ernest Holmes Copy Share Image
The seeker after stillness should be told that the stillness is always there. Indeed it is in every man. But he has… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
The more successful enterprises are the more they try to replicate, duplicate, codify what makes us great. And suddenly they're inward thinking.… — Lou Gerstner Copy Share Image
Pain in the present is experienced as hurt. Pain in the past is remembered as anger. Pain in the future is perceived… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
It used to be said, not so long ago, that every suicide gave Satan special pleasure. I don't think that's true-unless it… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
There is indeed a certain sense of gratification when we do a good deed that gives us inward satisfaction, and a generous… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Latin, as we all know, ultimately broke down into Spanish, Italian, French, and so on. One wonders whether there will be an… — William Golding Copy Share Image
You have discovered the spiritual universe. Many others have discovered this same world, but each must make the discovery for himself. You… — Ernest Holmes Copy Share Image
Retire from the world each day to some private spot. Stay in the secret place till the surrounding noises begin to fade… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
And when it is suggested that the inward feelings of power or inward monitions or losses of judgement are the germs out… — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
Damn everything but the circus! ...damn everything that is grim, dull, motionless, unrisking, inward turning, damn everything that won't get into the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Look at the pattern this seashell makes. The dappled whorl, curving inward to infinity. That's the shape of the universe itself. There's… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
The church has long used the concept of sacraments--outward signs of inward grace--to name the spaces where God meets us in an… — Lauren F. Winner Copy Share Image
Doubtless almost any intense emotion may open our 'inward eye' to the beauty of reality. Falling in love appears to do it… — Margaret Prescott Montague Copy Share Image
God is a fire that warms and kindles the heart and inward parts. Hence, if we feel in our hearts the cold… — Seraphim of Sarov Copy Share Image
He looked at the pain and he set himself apart from it. He saw it, examined it, identified it, corralled it. He… — Lee Child Copy Share Image
