Outward Quotes

521 Outward quotes by 389 unique authors

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
...I love 'yes.' It's practically the most interesting word of all, don't you think?" Like a hinge opening a door outward. Yes, yes, yes. — Hanif Kureishi
Dancing is surely the most basic and relevant of all forms of expression. Nothing else can so effectively give outward form to an inner experience.… — Lyall Watson
I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life. They seek position, marriage,… — Carl Jung
Some attribute had departed from her, the permanence of which had been essential to keep her a woman. Such is frequently the fate, and such… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy. Peace does not dwell in outward things, but in the heart prepared to wait trustfully… — Elisabeth Elliot
O my God, since thou art with me, and i must now, in obedience to thy commands, apply my mind to these outward things, i… — Brother Lawrence
The Word of God will be to you a bulwark and a high tower, a castle of defense against the foe. Oh, see to it… — Charles Spurgeon
She is close enough to me that I can see her, because even now there is the outward sign of visible light, even at night… — John Green
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
It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn; and whether it was the outward substance of things or the inner… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Vonnegut's war was necessary. And yet it was massacre and screaming and confusion and blood and death. It was the mammoth projection outward of the… — George Saunders
Peace does not dwell in outward things but within the soul; we may preserve it in the midst of the bitterest pain, if our will… — Francois Fenelon
In the alluvial sweep of the land, I thought I could see the past and the present and the future all at once, as though… — James Lee Burke
Hence, in all countries the chief occupation of society is card-playing, and it is the gauge of its value, and an outward sign that it… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Skye kissed her forehead. "You saved my life." Katsa smiled. "You Lienid are very outward in your affection." "I'm going to name my firstborn child… — Kristin Cashore
For outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason. — Marcus Aurelius
I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves -- this critical basis I call the ideal of a pigsty. The ideals… — Albert Einstein
In using all means, seek God alone. In and through every outward thing, look only to the power of His Spirit, and the merits of… — John Wesley
Time and space recede and blast away like a universe expanding forever outward, and leaving only darkness and the two of us on its periphery,… — Lauren Oliver
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
It is said that boys fall in love with their eyes, because they can be initially struck to their very core by a girl's mere… — L.A. Meyer
What do you think has become of the young and old men? And what do you think has become of the women and children? They… — Walt Whitman
He looked at a world of incredible loveliness. Old distaff Celt's blood in some back chamber of his brain moved him to discourse with the… — Cormac McCarthy
Even if it’s a dumb story, telling it changes people just the slightest little bit, just as living the story changes me. An infinitesimal change.… — John Green

Who Wrote These Outward Quotes

389 authors contributed a total of 521 Outward Quotes, led by these top contributors: