Inward Quotes - Page 23

• 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.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Ideas, Mind, Forget

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• You must hand yourself and all your inward experiences, your temptations, your temperament, your frames and feelings, all over into the care of your God, and leave them there. He made you and therefore He understands you, and knows how to manage you, and you must trust Him to do it.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Hands, Temptation, Feelings

  Hannah Whitall Smith (2009). “The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life”, p.44, Moody Publishers

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• As my prayer became more attentive and inward, I had less and less to say. I finally became completely silent... This is how it is. To pray does not mean to listen to oneself speaking. Prayer involves becoming silent, and being silent, and waiting until God is heard.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Prayer, Mean, Waiting

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• Grace is the outcome of inward harmony.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Grace, Outcomes, Harmony

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• Nothing in oratory is more important than to win for the orator the favour of his hearer, and to have the latter so affected as to be swayed by something resembling an impulse of the spirit impetu quodam animi or emotion perturbatione, rather than by judgment or deliberation. For men decide far more problems by hate, or love, or lust, or rage, or sorrow, or joy, or hope, or fear, or illusion, or some other inward emotion aliqua permotione mentis, than by reality or authority, or any legal standard, or judicial precedent or statute.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Hate, Winning, Reality

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• It skims in through the eye, and by means of the utterly delicate retina hurls shadows like insect legs inward for translation. Then an immense space opens up in silence and an endlessly fecund sub-universe the writer descends, and asks the reader to descend after him, not merely to gain instructions but also to experience delight, the delight of mind freed from matter and exultant in the strength it has stolen from matter.

  John Updike

  Mean, Eye, Space

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• Importunate praying is the earnest inward movement of the heart toward God.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Heart, Movement

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1929). “The Necessity of Prayer”, p.97, Fig

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• Caution is crediting, and reserve in speaking, and in revealing one's self to but very few, are the best securities both of a good understanding with the world, and of the inward peace of our own minds.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Self, Understanding, Mind

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• With the modern diseases (once TB, now cancer) the romantic idea that the disease expresses the character is invariably extended to assert that the character causes the disease -- because it has not expressed itself. Passion moves inward, striking and blighting the deepest cellular recesses.

  Susan Sontag

  Cancer, Moving, Passion

  Susan Sontag (1979). “Illness as metaphor”, Vintage

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• Christian faith does not involve repressing one's anxiety in order to appear strong. On the contrary, it means recognizing one's weakness, accepting the inward truth about oneself, confessing one's anxiety, and still to believe, that is to say that the Christian puts his trust not in his own strength, but in the grace of God.

  Paul Tournier

  Christian, Strong, Believe

  Paul Tournier (2012). “Learn to Grow Old”, p.222, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• We always point the lens both outward and inward.

  Paul Caponigro

  Lenses

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• I was trying to explain my situation to myself. My situation was that I was in pain and nobody knew it, even I had trouble knowing it. So I told myself, over and over, You are in pain. It was the only way I could get through to myself. I was demonstrating externally and irrefutably an inward condition.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Pain, Knowing, Over You

  Susanna Kaysen (2013). “Girl, Interrupted”, p.153, Vintage

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• That’s exactly what I’m talking about. That’s the evil that’s seducing you. The malevolent power that is crawling through your blood tempting you onto a treacherous path that will cost you everything you love and hold dear. You have to let that anger go before it’s too late. Vengeance always turns inward and it will consume you until nothing’s left but an empty hole that nothing can fill. (Ambrose)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Blood, Talking, Evil

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• 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.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Flower, Space, Demand

  Lawrence Durrell (2011). “Bitter Lemons of Cyprus”, p.6, Faber & Faber

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• Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love a free man is never safe. There is no gift for the beloved. the lover alone possesses his gift of love. The loved one is shorn, neutralized, frozen in the glance of the lover’s inward eyes.

  Toni Morrison

  Stupid, Eye, Love Is

  FaceBook post by Toni Morrison from Feb 23, 2015

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• Depression is not 'anger turned inward'; if anything, anger is depression turned outward. Follow the trail of anger inward, and there you will find the small, still voice of pain.

  Carol Tavris

  Pain, Voice, Trails

  Carol Tavris (2017). “Anger: The Misunderstood Emotion”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• Our purpose is to provide you the way to the answer within that alone can fill the meaningless void. The way to the way is inward, where salvation has awaited your coming for 2000 years.

  Roy Masters

  Years, Void, Purpose

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• He looked at the pain and he set himself apart from it. He saw it, examined it, identified it, corralled it. He isolated it. He challenged it. You against me? Dream on, pal. He built borders for it. Then walls. He built walls and forced the pain behind them and then he moved the walls inward, compressing the pain, crushing it, boxing it in, limiting it, beating it.

  Lee Child

  Crush, Dream, Wall

  Lee Child (2015). “The Essential Jack Reacher, Volume 2, 6-Book Bundle: 61 Hours, Worth Dying For, The Affair, A Wanted Man, Never Go Back, Personal”, p.508, Delacorte Press

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• Just try to keep the heart turned outward, as well as having moments inward. I think the threat of an industry like this is that you can become sort of self-obsessed. There's so much praise being given to you - there's a real threat of exalting the ego.

  Kimbra

  Real, Heart, Thinking

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• Never forget that you are not in the world; the world is in you. When anything happens to you, take the experience inward. Creation is set up to bring you constant hints and clues about your role as co-creator. Your soul is metabolizing experience as surely as your body is metabolizing food

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Soul, Roles

  Deepak Chopra (2009). “The Book Of Secrets: Who am I? Where did I come from? Why am I here?”, p.260, Random House

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• The fairy tale journey may look like an outward trek across plains and mountains, through castles and forests, but the actual movement is inward, into the lands of the soul.

  Terri Windling

  Journey, Land, Soul

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• I was never good at painting. The great turning point came when I had a block of wood and I carved a shape into the wood and put a small piece of timber into that space - like a negative - and so it made an endless column, only inward.

  Carl Andre

  Block, Space, Pieces

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• ... when one's outward lot is perfect, the sense of inward imperfection is the more pressing.

  George Eliot

  Perfect, Imperfection

  George Eliot, John Walter Cross (2010). “George Eliot's Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals”, p.178, Cambridge University Press

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• Turn thy gaze inward, wherein resides the Supreme Self.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Self, Turns, Supreme

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• The difference between talent and genius is in the direction of the current: in genius, it is from within outward; in talent from without inward.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Differences, Genius, Talent

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.442, Harvard University Press

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