Inward Quotes · Page 5

Anger is energising. The opposite of anger is depression, which is anger turned inward.

— Gloria Steinem

When our life ceases to be inward and private, conversation degenerates into mere gossip.

— Henry David Thoreau

A man must seek his happiness and inward peace from objects which cannot be taken away from him.

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

The journey of true success and lasting leaderships begins with the inward journey to the soul.

— James Arthur Ray

Pity for him who one day looks uponhis inward sphinx and questions it. He is lost.

— Ruben Dario

Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are.

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Those who, like the beasts, have no such Hope, pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom.

— Wilfred Owen

The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and…

— Novalis

Nourishing spirituality means cultivating the inward space, the basis of which all things can be brought together. It means overwhelming deadness and…

— Leonardo Boff

The outward work can never be small if the inward one is great, and the outward work can never be great or…

— Meister Eckhart

Turn inward and say to yourself "I'm just gonna do it". That mindset got me to where I am now. I look…

— Bill Burr

I do think that the sense of being opposed to the present moment, that sense of the rub of history, invigorates the…

— Garth Greenwell

Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the…

— Ralph Cudworth

The passage of the mythological hero may be over ground, incidentally; fundamentally it is inward--into depths where obscure resistances are overcome, and…

— Joseph Campbell

The use of natural history is to give us aid in supernatural history: the use of the outer creation, to give us…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

And a secret inward voice in my head was saying (in a strange breathy voice...) Yes, yessss, I will pop round to…

— Louise Rennison

A true and safe leader is likely to be one who has no desire to lead, but is forced into a position…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

Thinking cannot be clear until it has had expression-we must write, or speak, or act our thoughts, or they will remain in…

— Henry Ward Beecher

I trust in Nature for the stable laws Of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant And Autumn garner to the end of…

— Robert Browning

Que me voulez-vous?' said he in a growl of which the music was wholly confined to his chest and throat, for he…

— Charlotte Bronte

There are so many tender and holy emotions flying about in our inward world, which, like angels, can never assume the body…

— Jean Paul

But his face had that hollow look, as if there was something gone... you know that look. The inward focus. Distantly attentive…

— Gregory Maguire

Prayer frees us to be controlled by God. To pray is to change. There is no greater liberating force in the Christian…

— Richard J. Foster

Community cannot take root in a divided life. Long before community assumes external shape and form, it must be present as seed…

— Parker J. Palmer

The very first discovery of beauty strikes the mind with an inward joy, and spreads a cheerfulness and delight through all its…

— Joseph Addison

Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.

— Joseph Campbell

The way you understand and investigate time is by moving inward, into metabolism. The human body is a knot in time.

— Terence McKenna

God illumines the mind and shines within it. One cannot know God by means of the mind. One can but turn the…

— Ramana Maharshi

From innumerable complexities we must grow to simplicity; we must become simple in our inward life and in our outward needs.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Agosins poetic language engages the reader in a mesmerizing journey of inward reflection and exile.

— Isabel Allende

People try to create an outwardly perfect life, but the quality of life is based on the inward.

— Jaggi Vasudev

A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches…

— Thomas Carlyle

To discern what weaknesses and faults separate you from God, you must enter into your own inward ground and then confront yourself.

— Johannes Tauler

Worship is an inward feeling and outward action that reflects the worth of God.

— John Piper

When I speak of religion I mean a constant inward sense of communion with God.

— Rachel Simon

Spiritual power comes out of inward fellowship with God and abandonment to his purposes.

— E. Stanley Jones

Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.

— William Hazlitt

For there is only one great adventure and that is inward toward the self, and for that, time nor space nor even…

— Henry Miller

True freedom is an inward state of being. Once it is attained, no situation in the world can bind one or limit…

— Jack Canfield

The inward area is the first place of loss of true Christian life, of true spirituality, and the outward sinful act is…

— Francis Schaeffer