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• No one can be great, or good, or happy except through the inward efforts of themselves.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Happiness, Effort

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• Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.

  Theodore Parker

  Judgment, Failing, Passing Judgment

  "Dictionary of American Maxims". Book edited by David George Plotkin, 1955.

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• As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Happiness, Beauty

  "The Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson".

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• Nature educates us into beauty and inwardness and is a source of the most noble pleasure.

  Karl Blossfeldt

  Noble, Pleasure, Source

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• God illumines the mind and shines within it. One cannot know God by means of the mind. One can but turn the mind inwards and merge it in God.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Mean, Shining, Mind

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• I see men's judgments are A parcel of their fortunes; and things outward Do draw the inward quality after them, To suffer all alike.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Suffering, Quality

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Isaac Reed, Alexander Pope (1803). “Antony and Cleopatra. King Lear”, p.184

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• The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses
  are still truly adjusted to each other.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Lovers, Infancy, One With Nature

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.9, Harvard University Press

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• There never was a war that was not inward; I must fight till I have conquered in myself what causes war.

  Marianne Moore

  Peace, Freedom, War

  Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.138, Penguin

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• I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fashion, Clothes, Giving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.48, Harvard University Press

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• I entered (into my inward self) and beheld with the eye of my soul...the Light Unchangeable.

  Saint Augustine

  Eye, Light, Self

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• Yoga is as old and traditional as civilization, yet it persists in modern society as a means to achieving essential vitality. But yoga demands that we develop not only strength in body but attention and awareness in mind.The yogi knows that the physical body is not only the temple for our soul but the means by which we embark on the inward journey toward the core.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Yoga, Mean, Journey

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• Adversity not only draws people together, but brings forth that beautiful inward friendship.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Beautiful, Adversity, People

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• In youth all doors open outward; in old age all open inward.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Doors, Age, Youth

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.2429, Delphi Classics

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• Yoga is an interior penetration leading to integration of being, senses, breath, mind, intelligence, consciousness, and Self. It is definitely an inward journey, evolution through involution, toward the Soul, which in turn desires to emerge and embrace you in its glory.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Yoga, Journey, Self

  B.K.S. Iyengar, John J. Evans, Douglas Abrams (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.175, Rodale

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• The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Humility, Delight, World

  Jonathan Edwards, Henry Rogers, Sereno Edwards Dwight (1839). “The Works of Jonathan Edwards”, p.69

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• When inward tenderness finds the secret hurt, pain itself will crack the rock and Ah! Let the soul emerge.

  Rumi

  Hurt, Pain, Rocks

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• I long to put the experience of fifty years at once into your young lives, to give you at once the key of that treasure chamber every gem of which has cost me tears and struggles and prayers, but you must work for these inward treasures yourself.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Mom, Mother, Prayer

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• Being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which psychoanalysis is powerless to bestow.

  Sebastian Horsley

  Fashion, Clothes, Giving

  "The agony and the ecstasy" by Jessica Berens, www.theguardian.com. May 25, 2002.

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• War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  War, Lying, Power

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• Baptism is an outward expression of an inward faith.

  Watchman Nee

  Expression, Baptism

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Normal Christian Life”, p.103, CLC Publications

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• Even as a child she had lived her own small life within herself. At a very early period she had apprehended instinctively the dual life - that outward existence which conforms, the inward life which questions.

  Kate Chopin

  Children, Awakening, Small Life

  Kate Chopin (1899). “The Awakening”, p.35

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• When your institution is under assault, you're feeling like the weight is on it and the history might be flowing away, don't turn inward, go outward.

  David Brooks

  Feelings, Weight, Might

  "Shields and Brooks on CPAC, Obama’s Outreach to Congress, Pope Francis". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. March 15, 2013.

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• Evil is a far more cunning and persevering propagandist than good, for it has no inward strength, and is driven to seek countenance and sympathy.

  James Russell Lowell

  Evil, Driven, Cunning

  James Russell Lowell, Maria F. Rosetti (1872). “Review of The Shadow of Dante”, p.201

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

  Susan Cain

  And Love, Way, Tendencies

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• The computer actually may have aggravated management's degenerative tendency to focus inward on costs.

  Peter Drucker

  Focus, Cost, May

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