Inward Quotes
476 Inward quotes by 347 unique authors
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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…
— Pope Francis
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Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself…
— Ralph Cudworth
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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
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Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.
— Henry Van Dyke
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The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great.
— Meister Eckhart
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As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though…
— B. C. Forbes
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Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
— William Hazlitt
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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…
— William James
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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…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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When you are with the wrong person, who doesn't really love you, all you want is to be adored. It makes you more inward and…
— Marina and the Diamonds
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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.…
— Rollo May
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The central tenet of Christianity as it has come down to us is that we are to reach out when our instinct is to pull…
— Jon Meacham
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There never was a war that was not inward.
— Marianne Moore
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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;…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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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…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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I think there's a danger, for me at least, in retreating and going inward and depression. I have to stay diligent against that tendency.
— Conor Oberst
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So this is how you swim inward. So this is how you flow outwards. So this is how you pray.
— Mary Oliver
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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…
— Laurence Olivier
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Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.
— Theodore Parker
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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…
— Tariq Ramadan
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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…
— Unknown Author
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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
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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…
— Virginia Woolf
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After I had given up to go, the thoughts of the journey were often attended with unusual sadness, at which times my heart was frequently…
— John Woolman
Who Wrote These Inward Quotes
347 authors contributed a total of 476 Inward Quotes, led by these top contributors: