Inward Quotes

476 Inward quotes by 347 unique authors

the calling of the teacher. There is no craft more privileged. To awaken in another human being powers, dreams beyond one’s own; to induce in… — George Steiner
But it's precisely in this cold, loathsome half-despair, half-belief, in this deliberate burying of yourself underground for forty years out of sheer pain, in this… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
I wish the whole day were like breakfast, when people are still connected to their dreams, focused inward, and not yet ready to engage with… — Peter Cameron
Christian contentment is that sweet, inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit, which freely submits to and delights in God's wise and fatherly disposal in every… — Jeremiah Burroughs
All life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference betwixt those born of real things and those… — H P Lovecraft
What the artist is always looking for is the mode of existence in which soul and body are one and indivisible: in which the outward… — Oscar Wilde
Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a… — D. H. Lawrence
To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of our loneliness and to change it by gentle… — Henri Nouwen
What follows is more about books than it is about me, but nonetheless it is my inward autobiography, for the words we take into ourselves… — Francis Spufford
It is our inward journey that leads us through time – forward or back, seldom in a straight line, most often spiraling. Each of us… — Eudora Welty
...what I dread more than anything else in this life is noise...silence helps you to go inward..anyone who is interested in something more than just… — Muriel Barbery
We do the best we can," she said softly, looking inward. "And punish ourselves for it. I've tried to make my choices with the idea… — Tami Hoag
That’s exactly what I’m talking about. That’s the evil that’s seducing you. The malevolent power that is crawling through your blood tempting you onto a… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which psychoanalysis is powerless to bestow. — Sebastian Horsley
Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Poems On Love Love adorns itself; it seeks to prove inward joy by outward beauty. Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom. Love is… — Rabindranath Tagore
A man who says, 'I want to change, tell me how to', seems very earnest, very serious, but he is not. He wants an authority… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but… — Toni Morrison
I could not answer the ceaseless inward question-why I thus suffered; now, at the distance of-I will not say how many years, I see it… — Charlotte Bronte
we are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason. but we cannot just walk… — Iris Murdoch
I know what I want, I have a goal, an opinion, I have a religion and love. Let me be myself and then I am… — Anne Frank
The memory of an absent person shines in the deepest recesses of the heart, shining the more brightly the more wholly its object has vanished:… — Victor Hugo
Had I no eyes but ears, my ears would love. That inward beauty and invisible; Or were I deaf, thy outward parts would move each… — William Shakespeare
Don't you see? We've become smart enough to justify stupid behavior. Like, 'I'm angry at him and I didn't express it, so I turned my… — Carrie Fisher
I've since discovered that many human beings need no supernatural mentoring to commit acts of savagery; some people are devils in their own right, their… — Dean Koontz

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