Inward Quotes - Page 24

• Nothing is more stimulating and more salutary to (or for) the inner (or inward) development than the exemple of men devoted to the good. It is in the company of men pursuing a same ideal that the still weavering (or unsteady) soul can set oneself ("se fixer", Fr) and stick to (or attach to) everything that is noble and generous.

  African Spir

  Men, Soul, Sticks

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 58), 1937.

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• My own work on depression demonstrated that men and women often have different symptoms, with males often becoming more irritable, angry, and aggressive when they are depressed, while women show the more inward symptoms such as sadness, helplessness, and hopelessness.

  Jed Diamond

  Sadness, Men, Becoming

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Meditation has become a big part of my life these days. It's more about taking some moments for yourself to deep-breathe and focus your attention inward. This has really helped me because, as a perfectionist, I used to think that if I couldn't meditate in my idea of the perfect way, then it wouldn't work. I now meditate even if it is for three minutes while I'm sitting in the car. Every little bit helps to slow the system.

  Renee Marino

  Thinking, Ideas, Perfect

  "Renee Marino on the Art of Feeling Alive: Interview". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The mountain has left me feeling renewed, more content and positive than I’ve been for weeks, as if something has been given back after a long absence, as if my eyes have opened once again. For this time at least, I’ve let myself be rooted in the unshakable sanity of the senses, spared my mind the burden of too much thinking, turned myself outward to experience the world and inward to savor the pleasures it has given me.

  Richard Nelson

  Eye, Thinking, Long

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• Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret. Look inward and ask not if there is anything outside you want, but whether there is anything inside that you have not yet unpacked.

  Quentin Crisp

  Regret, Doubt, Want

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• 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.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Heart, Ledges, Littles

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2003). “Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems”, p.61, Library of America

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• But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult! The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander for a spell in abysses of solitude; to lose itself in mazes of inward contemplation. The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace.

  Kate Chopin

  Sea, Voice, Seductive

  1899 The Awakening, ch.6.

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• The written word, obviously, is very inward, and when we're reading, we're thinking. It's a sort of spiritual, meditative activity. When we're looking at visual objects, I think our eyes are obviously directed outward, so there's not as much reflective time. And it's the reflectiveness and the spiritual inwardness about reading that appeals to me.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Spiritual, Reading, Eye

  Tavis Smiley interview, PBS, June 28, 2005.

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• For oft, when on my couch I lie in vacant or in pensive mood they flash upon that inward eye which is the bliss of solitude

  William Wordsworth

  Lying, Eye, Solitude

  "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" l. 19 (1815 ed.)

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• Let tears flow of their own accord; their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.

  Seneca the Younger

  Sadness, Tears, Flow

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• Beg of God the removal of envy, that God may deliver you from externals, and bestow upon you an inward occupation, which will absorb you so that your attention is not drawn away.

  Rumi

  Envy, Attention, Occupation

  Jelaluddin Rumi (2005). “The Rumi Collection”, p.14, Shambhala Publications

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• Days I enjoy are days when nothing happens, When I have no engagements written on my block, When no one comes to disturb my inward peace, When no one comes to take me away from myself And turn me into a patchwork, a jig-saw puzzle, A broken mirror that once gave a whole reflection, Being so contrived that it takes too long a time To get myself back to myself when they have gone.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Block, Reflection, Mirrors

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• There is an idea that you can take the spiritual teachings of a religion outside of a religion and practice them; these ideas are brought forward. That appears to be easy. You can say, "Oh, well. I don't have to bother about not eating pork, and not drinking wine, and all you have to do is read the beautiful poetry of Rumi and talk about wine, women and song. Or something like that." This kind of attitude. This is the antipode of the other attitude which says Islam is nothing but throwing bombs, it has nothing to do with internal or inward purification.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Song

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• You must be patient, you must wait for the eye of the soul to be formed in you. Religious truth is reached, not by reasoning, but by an inward perception. Anyone can reason; only disciplined, educated, formed minds can perceive.

  John Henry Newman

  Religious, Eye, Waiting

  John Henry Newman, Francis J. McGrath, FMS, Gerard Tracey (2006). “The Letters and Diaries of John Henry Newman Volume IX: Littlemore and the Parting of Friends May 1842-October 1843”, p.274, Oxford University Press

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• The central tenet of Christianity as it has come down to us is that we are to reach out when our instinct is to pull inward; to give when we want to take; to love when we are inclined to hate; to include when are tempted to exclude.

  Jon Meacham

  Hate, Giving, Want

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• Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is constantly maintained between the impressions from outward objects and the inward operations of the intellect:--for if there be an overbalance in the contemplative faculty, man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Men, Thinking, Animal

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2001). “Lectures Upon Shakspeare”, p.145, Classic Books Company

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• I am actually quite encouraged and I think, actually, the UK is coping with globalisation a lot better than most other European countries. And that is reflected in the fact that (whilst of course there are people who are still unemployed) our unemployment rate is low and (whilst of course we need to export more) we are attracting a huge amount of inward investment into Britain.

  George Osborne

  Country, Thinking, People

  Source: www.economist.com

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• 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.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Individual Effort, Order, Growth

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• Those who today always look for disciplinarian solutions, those who long for an exaggerated doctrinal 'security,' those who stubbornly try to recover a past that no longer exists - they have a static and inward-directed view of things. In this way, faith becomes an ideology among other ideologies.

  Pope Francis

  Past, Views, Long

  Pope Francis (2014). “My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change”, p.99, A&C Black

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• Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing.

  John Stuart Mill

  Gymnastics, Justice, Diversity

  John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, John Troyer (2003). “The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill”, p.196, Hackett Publishing

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• When you are with the wrong person, who doesn't really love you, all you want is to be adored. It makes you more inward and needy. Gross.

  Marina and the Diamonds

  Love You, Want, Wrong Person

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• Home is a place in the mind. When it is empty, it frets. It is fretful with memory, faces and places and times gone by. Beloved images rise up in disobedience and make a mirror for emptiness. Then what resentful wonder, and what half-aimless seeking. It is a silly state of affairs. It is a silly creature that tries to get a smile from even the most familiar and loving shadow. Comical and hopeless, the long gaze back is always turned inward.

  Maeve Brennan

  Memories, Silly, Home

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• ...what I dread more than anything else in this life is noise...silence helps you to go inward..anyone who is interested in something more than just life outside actually needs silence.

  Muriel Barbery

  Silence, Needs, Noise

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• Hypocrisy is the outward acknowledgment of inward shame.

  Norm MacDonald

  Hypocrisy, Shame, Acknowledgment

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• There are two kinds of authors - subjective and objective. Introverts are more inward looking.

  Ruskin Bond

  Two, Kind, Introvert

  Source: www.abhijitbhaduri.com

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