Inward Quotes
The practice of being at ease also gives you the strength and stamina to pursue all that you find when you connect inward.
To each is given a certain inward talent, a certain outward environment or fortune; to each by wisest combination of these two, a certain maximum capacity.
Every character has an inward spring; let Christ be that spring. Every action has a keynote; let Christ be that note, to which your whole life is attuned.
It's a matter of turning your consciousness inward in order to then realize that God is in there, and then you can see him outside too. It's just a shift in attitude, really.
Strive to realize a state of inward happiness, independent of circumstances.
As I got into high school and after puberty, I was a little more inward. I was a real extrovert when I was little, but I don't know, I just got quieter With my friends, I was still an extrovert.
Mankind have such a deep stake in inward illumination, that there is much to be said by the hermit or monk in defence of his life of thought and prayer.
All outward success, when it has value, is but the inevitable result of an inward success of full living, full play and enjoyment of one's faculties.
For if the talent or individuality is there, it should be expressed. If it doesn't find its way out into the air, it can be turned inward and gnaw like the fox at the Spartan boy's belly.
We are always looking for solutions from someone else. We forget that if we turn our mind inward, we can get some ideas, some solutions.
The more the flesh is wasted by affliction, so much more is the Spirit strengthened by inward grace.
Every government program needs to be more efficient. Instead of pointing out how other programs can tighten their belts, every program administrator must look inward to save money.
I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all the extraneous delights should be withheld or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.
The precept to worship God 'in spirit and in truth' recommand to worship him as an inward and moral force, without physical attributes and with no relation to fears and egoist wishes.
A true and safe leader is likely to be one who has no desire to lead, but is forced into a position of leadership by the inward pressure of the Holy Spirit and the press of the external situation.
Certain temperaments respond to anxiety by pulling inward. Their instincts tell them ' Don't go out to meet the world - you'll have a panic attack. Inside is where safety is.
Woman must be the pioneer in this turning inward for strength. In a sense, she has always been the pioneer.
Nature inspires me because it's so peaceful. It makes me have an inward experience. It makes me reflective and nostalgic.
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 clearly.
Everyone should go inward, get curious about themselves, and investigate their shadows. It's one of the most important gifts we can give humanity. It's one of our most vital causes.
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.
To look for a job before looking deeply inward is likely to short-circuit the process of finding your calling.
When your institution is under assault, you're feeling like the weight is on it and the history might be flowing away, don't turn inward, go outward.
Since 2004, Britain has been the destination for 1 in 5 of all inward investments into Europe. And being part of the Single Market has been key to that success.
By connecting with the present we turn our attention inward, away from all the chaos and activity, and experience our eternal, unbounded nature.
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 tide, A little tepid pool, Drying inward from the edge.
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 help to shape us.
For the purpose of knowledge we must know how to make use of the inward current which draws us towards a thing, and also of the current which after a time draws us away from it.
The less men are fettered by tradition, the greater becomes the inward activity of their motives, and greater again in proportion to their outer restlessness.
Spiritual growth-looking inward-is replacing the pursuit of external power-reaching outward to manipulate and control-as the cure for the insecurity at the core of human experience.
Who can know how much of his most inward life is made up of the thoughts he believes other men to have about him, until that fabric of opinion is threatened with ruin?
... when one's outward lot is perfect, the sense of inward imperfection is the more pressing.
Outward attacks and troubles rather fix than unsettle the Christian, as tempests from without only serve to root the oak faster; while an inward canker will gradually rot and decay it.
The ancient philosophers, Chinese, Hindu, Persian, and Greek, were a class than which none has been poorer in outward riches, none so rich inward.
We are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness is the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason.
Agosins poetic language engages the reader in a mesmerizing journey of inward reflection and exile.
True freedom is an inward state of being. Once it is attained, no situation in the world can bind one or limit one's freedom.
Revenge is a really narrow scope through which to view things. In the same way secrets do, it has this ability to warp everything. But secrets are more inward, and revenge is outward.
The most prosaic of us betray a belief in the inward life every time we talk about 'my body' rather than 'I.
I think the call of the inward life starts here. Solitude helps you differentiate, define the borders of the self. Solitude helps you figure our where everybody else stops and you begins.
The inward sighs of humble penitence Rise to the ear of Heaven, when peal'd hymns Are scatter'd with the sounds of common air.
Necessity is cruel, but it is the only test of inward strength. Every fool may live according to his own likings.