Inward Quotes - Page 14

It is worth repeating that powerful imagination is not false outward vision, but intense inward representation, and a creative energy constantly fed by susceptibility to the veriest minutiæ of experience, which it reproduces and constructs in fresh and fresh wholes; not the habitual confusion of provable fact with the fictions of fancy and transient inclination, but a breadth of ideal association which informs every material object, every incidental fact with far-reaching memories and storied residues of passion, bringing into new light the less obvious relations to human existence.

George Eliot

Memories, Powerful, Passion

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When a man and woman are successfully in love, their whole activity is energized and victorious. They walk better, their digestion improves, they think more clearly, their secret worries drop away, the world is fresh and interesting, and they can do more than they dreamed that they could do. In love of this kind sexual intimacy is not the dead end of desire as it is in romantic or promiscuous love, but periodic affirmation of the inward delight of desire pervading an active life.

Walter Lippmann

Men, Thinking, Interesting

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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.

Negash Ali

Believe, People, Desire

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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Latin, as we all know, ultimately broke down into Spanish, Italian, French, and so on. One wonders whether there will be an imperial parallel with English breaking down into, shall we say, North American, European, Australian, and so on. On the other hand, there is this immense, inward-driving influence of radio and television that is bringing us all back together. One could say it's a fight between the two: a fight between regionalism and the standardization through communication.

William Golding

Latin, Communication, Fighting

Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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I think the human race doesn't have a future if we don't go into space. We need to expand our horizons beyond planet Earth if we are to have a long-term future. We cannot remain looking inward at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet. We need to look outward to the wider universe.

Stephen Hawking

Thinking, Race, Space

"Q & A: Stephen Hawking and daughter Lucy". Today Interview, www.today.com. November 2, 2007.

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Happy he whose inward ear Angel comfortings can hear, O'er the rabble's laughter; And, while Hatred's fagots burn, Glimpses through the smoke discern Of the good hereafter.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Laughter, Angel, Hatred

John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.122

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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.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Light, Sea, Sound

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley (1829). “The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats. Complete in One Volume”, p.217

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Love adorns itself; it seeks to prove inward joy by outward beauty

Rabindranath Tagore

Joy, Outward Beauty, Prove

Rabindranath Tagore, “Poems On Love”

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

Kimbra

Heart, Trying, Moments

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In a quiet place, close your eyes, take a deep breath, and go inward. Place your attention on your heart, in the center of your chest. Sit quietly and easily let your attention remain there.

Deepak Chopra

Eye, Heart, Attention

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By connecting with the present we turn our attention inward, away from all the chaos and activity, and experience our eternal, unbounded nature.

Deepak Chopra

Attention, Chaos, Turns

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To understand a Bible text it takes an act of the Holy Spirit equal to the act that inspired the text in the first place. A revelation of the Holy Spirit in one glorious flash of inward illumination would teach you more of Jesus than five years in a theological seminary.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Jesus, Illumination, Years

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No man is an island- he is a holon. A Janus-faced entity who, looking inward, sees himself as a self-contained unique whole, looking outward as a dependent part. His self-assertive tendency is the dynamic manifestation of his unique wholeness, his autonomy and independence as a holon. Its equally universal antagonist, the integrative tendency, expresses his dependence on the larger whole to which he belongs: his 'part-ness.'.

Arthur Koestler

Unique, Men, Islands

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Surrender yourselves then to be led and disposed of just as God pleases, with respect both to your outward and inward state.

Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

Surrender, States, Please

Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon (1804). “The Exemplary Life of the Pious Lady Guion”, p.458

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If you're trying to connect to people with music - it's more of an outward process and a lot of times musicians can be very inward.

Dave Grohl

People, Trying, Musician

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...Nature allows
Destruction nor collapse of aught, until
Some outward force may shatter by a blow,
Or inward craft, entering its hollow cells,
Dissolve it down.

Lucretius

Blow, Cells, Entering

Lucretius (2013). “The Way Things Are”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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Standing on soil feels so much different than standing on city pavement; it lets you look inward and reflect and see who you really are, while you see a beautiful, unspoiled land as far as the eye can see. It allows your inner life to grow

Ricardo Montalban

Beautiful, Eye, Land

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Real inward devotion knows no prayer but that arising from the depths of its own feelings.

Wilhelm von Humboldt

Prayer, Real, Feelings

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Men live a moral life, either from regard to the Diving Being, or from regard to the opinion of the people in the world; and when a moral life is practised out of regard to the Divine Being, it is a spiritual life. Both appear alike in their outward form; but in their inward, they are completely different. The one saves a man, but the other does not; for he that leads a moral life out of regard to the Divine Being is led by him, but he who does so from regard to the opinion of people in the world is led by himself.

Emanuel Swedenborg

Good Night, Spiritual, Men

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That is the basic pattern of this kind of meditation, which is based on three fundamental factors: first, not centralizing inward; second, not having any longing to become higher; and third, becoming completely identified with here and now.

Chogyam Trungpa

Meditation, Three, Fundamentals

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Core competence, as it is used by many managers, is a dangerously inward-looking notion. Competitiveness is far more about doing what customers value than doing what you think you're good at.

Clayton Christensen

Thinking, Used, Competence

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An inward sincerity will of course influence the outward deportment; but where the one is wanting, there is great reason to suspect the absence of the other.

Laurence Sterne

Influence, Sincerity, Absence

Laurence Sterne (1849). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing the Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gent., Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, Sermons, Letters, &c. With a Life of the Author Written by Himself”, p.730

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

Michel de Montaigne

Looks, Busy, Turns

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Beloved Pan and all ye other gods who haunt this place, give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and the inward man be one.

Socrates

Men, Giving, Soul

Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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The city is the image of the soul, the surrounding walls being the frontier between the outward and inward life. The gates are the faculties or senses connecting the life of the soul with the outward world. Living springs of water rise within it. And in the centre, where beats the heart, stands the holy sanctuary.

St. Catherine of Siena

Wall, Spring, Heart

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