Inward Quotes

476 Inward quotes by 347 unique authors

For oft, when on my couch I lie in vacant or in pensive mood they flash upon that inward eye which is the bliss of… — William Wordsworth
Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward. — Joseph Campbell
But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning!… — Kate Chopin
I know what my heart is like Since your love died: It is like a hollow ledge Holding a little pool Left there by the… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
The written word, obviously, is very inward, and when we're reading, we're thinking. It's a sort of spiritual, meditative activity. When we're looking at visual… — Joyce Carol Oates
The man was hit in one eye by a stone, and that eye turned inward so that it looked into his mind, and he died… — Patricia A. McKillip
The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an… — Charlotte Bronte
When a condition or a problem becomes too great, humans have the protection of not thinking about it. But it goes inward and minces up… — John Steinbeck
God sweetens outward pain with inward peace. — Thomas Watson
Let us labor for an inward stillness-- An inward stillness and an inward healing. That perfect silence where the lips and heart Are still, and… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
How hard is it, when everything encourages us to sleep, though we may look about us with conscious, clinging eyes, to wake and yet look… — Antonin Artaud
Just as a flood-lighted temple is more beautiful in a severe storm or in a heavy fog, so the gospel of Jesus Christ is more… — Harold B. Lee
Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Oh, impossible. Fancy cream puffs so soon after breakfast. The very idea made one shudder. All the same, two minutes later Jose and Laura were… — Katherine Mansfield
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances. — Benjamin Franklin
Take a Nicodemus and put a Joseph Smith's spirit in him, and what do you have? Take a Da Vinci or a Michelangelo or a… — Brigham Young
A Christian society is not going to arrive until most of us really want it: and we are not going to want it until we… — C.S. Lewis
Direct your eye inward, and you'll find / A thousand regions in your mind / Yet undiscovered. Travel them, and be / Expert in home-cosmography — Henry David Thoreau
There is indeed a certain sense of gratification when we do a good deed that gives us inward satisfaction, and a generous pride that accompanies… — Michel de Montaigne
The longest journey is the journey inward. — Dag Hammarskjold
Some people want to see God with their eyes as they see a cow, and to love Him as they love a cow - for… — Meister Eckhart
Thinking about time is to acknowledge two contradictory certainties: that our outward lives are governed by the seasons and the clock; that our inward lives… — Jeanette Winterson
To-day we live so cowed under the bombardment of this intellectual artillery(the media) that hardly anyone can attain to the inward detachment that is required… — Oswald Spengler
A conscious attempt to fall asleep is sure to produce insomnia, to try to be conscious of one's own digestion is a sure way to… — Boris Pasternak

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