Best Inward Qoutes
476 Inward quotes by 347 unique authors
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Let me be one of the upward and outward lookers, not one of the downward and inward lookers.
— Alfred Edersheim
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To be free from ignorance you need knowledge. The mind should turn inward. Silence takes the mind inward and helps you to recognize who you…
— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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To gain an overall understanding of oneself does not require looking outward - it requires the strength of looking inward.
— Michelle Cruz
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To eliminate the inner turmoil we must focus our attention inward and act with loving kindness to ourselves—and each other.
— Michelle Cruz
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The inward battle--against our mind, our wounds, and the residues of the past--is more terrible than outward battle.
— Sivananda
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Oh! weep not that our beauty wears Beneath the wings of Time; That age o'erclouds the brow with cares That once was raised sublime... But…
— Robert Montgomery
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Yoga is as old and traditional as civilization, yet it persists in modern society as a means to achieving essential vitality. But yoga demands that…
— B.K.S. Iyengar
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Whenever I experience something beautiful, I am with Soul. That moment of inward breath, that pause and awareness of "how beautiful this is" is a…
— Jean Shinoda Bolen
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Community cannot take root in a divided life. Long before community assumes external shape and form, it must be present as seed in the undivided…
— Parker J. Palmer
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There is a quiet courage that comes from an inward spring of confidence in the meaning and significance of life. Such courage is an underground…
— Howard Thurman
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It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much, but I am my own comedy and tragedy.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Take the very hardest thing in your life - the place of difficulty, outward or inward, and expect God to triumph gloriously in that very…
— Lilias Trotter
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Yoga is an interior penetration leading to integration of being, senses, breath, mind, intelligence, consciousness, and Self. It is definitely an inward journey, evolution through…
— B.K.S. Iyengar
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I cannot tell by what logic we call a toad, a bear, or an elephant ugly; they being created in those outward shapes and figures…
— Thomas Browne
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Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
— John Donne
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Nothing in oratory is more important than to win for the orator the favour of his hearer, and to have the latter so affected as…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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With the modern diseases (once TB, now cancer) the romantic idea that the disease expresses the character is invariably extended to assert that the character…
— Susan Sontag
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You can't talk about life without talking about politics. You have to have both. If you're just a political person, you're going to burn out.…
— Robert Adams
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Nourishing spirituality means cultivating the inward space, the basis of which all things can be brought together. It means overwhelming deadness and stagnation and living…
— Leonardo Boff
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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…
— John L. Phillips
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The joy of all mysteries is the certainty which comes from their contemplation, that there are many doors yet for the soul to open on…
— A. C. Benson
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In its outward manifestation, meditation appears to involve either stopping, by parking the body in a stillness that suspends activity, or giving oneself over to…
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
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You turn inward. There's nothing to distract you, so you begin to look at yourself.
— Joseph Frank Bianco
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If we can avoid disaster for the next two centuries, our species should be safe as we spread into space. If we are the only…
— Stephen Hawking
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To discern what weaknesses and faults separate you from God, you must enter into your own inward ground and then confront yourself.
— Johannes Tauler
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