Inward Quotes

Nothing is more difficult to accomplish than changing outward actions without changing inward feelings.

You turn inward. There's nothing to distract you, so you begin to look at yourself.

Attitude is an inward thought that wiggles its way out.

Just try to keep the heart turned outward, as well as having moments inward.

They flower spontaneously out of the demands of our natures - and the best of them lead us not only outward in space, but inward as well.

This violent rage that turned inward cannot be helped by drink.

Without prayer there is no inward peace.

Non-violence is not a quality to be evolved or expressed to order. It is an inward growth depending for sustenance upon intense individual effort.

A satyagrahi turns the searchlight inward relentlessly to weed out all the defects that may be lying hidden there still.

Prayer is either petitional or, in its wider sense, inward communion.

Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth and the soul requires inward restfulness to attain its full height.

When a profession is protected by academic freedom and tenure, it tends to turn inward. To a large extent that's good.

Dreams are only the image of outward things shown on an inward mirror. But the mirror is the soul's enclosing darkness.

The gift turned inward, unable to be given, becomes a heavy burden, even sometimes a kind of poison. It is as though the flow of life were backed up.

I turn my gaze inward. I fix it there and keep it busy. I look inside myself. I continually observe myself.

Find the courage and the strength to turn inward and to ask a simple, soaring question. What would LOVE do NOW?

Some people say that music isn't something you are; it's something you do. It's having a constant desire to share and express. But I believe it's something you are. To me it's more inward.

Tattoos to me are the outward symbol of the inward change within my soul.

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 of what he saw there

The lightsome countenance of a friend giveth such an inward decking to the house where it lodgeth, as proudest palaces have cause to envy the gilding.

When I speak of religion I mean a constant inward sense of communion with God.

If you are aware, you speak with awareness. But the awareness comes from the inward being. It flows from the inner being towards others.

It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much, but I am my own comedy and tragedy.

The use of natural history is to give us aid in supernatural history: the use of the outer creation, to give us language for the beings and changes of the inward creation.

Inward solitude has outward manifestations. There is the freedom to be alone, not in order to be away from people but in order to hear the divine Whisper better.

Great are the symbols of Being, But that which is symboled is greater; Vast the create and beheld, But vaster the Inward Creator.

Time to go inward, man, I hope I have the nerve, to take inventory of the causes that I serve.

Time to go inward would you believe that I'm afraid to stare down the barrel of choices I have made.

Be that blind bard who on the Chian strand, By those deep sounds possessed with inward light, Beheld the Iliad and the Odyssey Rise to the swelling of the voiceful sea.

Your tendency to be inward-directed or outward-directed is huge; it governs every part of the way you live and work and love.

‎The way you understand and investigate time is by moving inward, into metabolism. The human body is a knot in time.

For man may pious texts repeat, And yet religion have no inward seat

Forget all you know or think you know; Abandon power and enforced decree. Inward, where the deepest rivers flow, Find the currents of eternity.

All that we do outwardly is but the expression and completion of our inward thought. To work effectively, we must think clearly; to act nobly, we must think nobly.

A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith's usual result.

The kind of happiness that stays with you is the happiness that springs from inward thoughts and emotions.

I...Kisss the tender inward of thy hand.

Opinion's but a fool, that makes us scan The outward habit by the inward man.

O England! Model to thy inward greatness, like little body with a might heart.

Look upward to your God for direction! Look inward into yourself and discover your talents! Look outward into your environment and get helped! Stop looking at one direction!

It’s the inward attention that takes you into the depth of the mind.

Stop looking forward to things, look inward instead.

I keep on dreaming, but to find freedom, one must first search inwards.

By gazing inward the true reflection of the self is revealed.

The spiritual path is an inward journey. On the spiritual path, the external life remains the same, but you begin the inward journey towards the truth.

...a soft inward look some into his eyes, as if he was amazed to find himself alive on such a beautiful day.

The only way to experience true wellbeing is to turn inward. This is what yoga means - not up, not out, but in. The only way out is in.

Anger is energising. The opposite of anger is depression, which is anger turned inward.