Inward Quotes - Page 2

There is no finer sensations in life that which comes with victory over one's self. Go forward to a goal of inward achievement, brushing aside all your old internal enemies as you advance.

Vash Young

Self, Goal, Achievement

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After I had given up to go, the thoughts of the journey were often attended with unusual sadness, at which times my heart was frequently turned to the Lord with inward breathings for his heavenly support, that I might not fail to follow him wheresoever he might lead me.

John Woolman

Heart, Sadness, Journey

John Woolman (2013). “journal”, p.87, Lulu.com

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As no outward motion or change, when normal, in man's external body can take place unless provoked by an inward impulse, given through one of the three functions named, so with the external or manifested Universe.

Helena

Men, Three, Body

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Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Ralph Cudworth

Passion, Knowledge, Mind

Ralph Cudworth, Thomas Birch (1838). “The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted, and Its Impossibility Demonstrated. A Treatise on Immutable Morality; with a Discourse Concerning the True Notion of the Lord's Supper: and Two Sermons on 1. John 2: 3, 4, and 1. Cor. 15: 27”, p.423

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Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.

Henry Van Dyke

Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Kindness

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One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling.

William James

Forgiveness, Heart, Wrestling

William James, Robert D Richardson (2010). “The Heart of William James”, p.132, Harvard University Press

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It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle.

Rollo May

Freedom, Moving, Journey

Rollo May (2009). “Man's Search for Himself”, p.174, W. W. Norton & Company

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I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent.

Henry Ward Beecher

Prayer, Wine, Principles

Henry Ward Beecher (1870). “Lecture-room Talks: A Series of Familiar Discourses on Themes of General Christian Experience”, p.133

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I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture.

Laurence Olivier

Believe, Cities, Theatre

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

B. C. Forbes

Faith, Confidence, Courage

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Happiness can only be achieved by looking inward & learning to enjoy whatever life has and this requires transforming greed into gratitude.

Saint John Chrysostom

Gratitude, Greed, Contentment

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Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, when what you need to know is the play of inward stimulus that sends him hither and thither in a network of possible paths?

George Eliot

Play, Needs, Use

George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus”, p.243, 谷月社

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Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.

Matthew Arnold

Perfection, Mind, Becoming

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The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great.

Meister Eckhart

Work, Ifs

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A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.

Thomas Carlyle

Inspirational, Men, Blessing

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To live happily is an inward power of the soul.

Marcus Aurelius

Happiness, Laughter, Philosophical

Marcus Aurelius (2016). “Meditations (Diversion Classics)”, p.219, Diversion Books

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Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Inspirational, Positive, Goodness

"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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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.

Claudia Black

Giving, Humanity, Shadow

Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 2016.

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All satanic works are performed from the outside inward; all divine works from the inside outward.

Watchman Nee

Satanic, Divine

Watchman Nee (1993). “The Finest of the Wheat, vol 2 - Hardcover: Selected Excerpts from the Published Works of Watchman Nee”, p.37, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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We need to go inward instead of outward, and learn to trust our own inner guide, preserving our identity and finding the answers from within.

Jane Fulton Alt

Individuality, Identity, Needs

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Their task [creative artists], therefore, is to communicate directly from one inward world to another, in such a way that an actual shock of experience will have been rendered: not a mere statement for the information or persuasion of a brain, but an effective communication across the void of space and time from one center of consciousness to another.

Joseph Campbell

Communication, Artist, Space

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Vision looks inward and becomes duty.

Stephen Samuel Wise

Vision, Looks, Duty

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O that our hearts were enlarged in love to God, that we might turn inward, to the blessed comforter, that the blessed Jesus said the Father would send.

Elias Hicks

Jesus, Father, Blessed

Elias Hicks (1828). “The Quaker, Being a Series of Sermons by Members of the Society of Friends ...”, p.222

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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Aristotle

Art, Philosophy, Philosophical

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Those who, like the beasts, have no such Hope, pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom.

Wilfred Owen

Age, No Hope, Gloom

"Complete Works of Wilfred Owen".

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