Inward Quotes - Page 4

• I would suggest that the next generation stop looking for happiness outside of themselves but instead turn inward.

  Gabrielle Bernstein

  Next, Generations, Turns

  "May Cause Miracles | Author Gabrielle Bernstein Interview: Rachel P. Goldstein". www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Most women have not even been able to touch this anger, except to drive it inward like a rusted nail.

  Adrienne Rich

  Nails, Able

  Adrienne Rich (1995). “On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978”, p.168, W. W. Norton & Company

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• To eliminate the inner turmoil we must focus our attention inward and act with loving kindness to ourselves—and each other.

  Michelle Cruz

  Kindness, Focus, Attention

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• Agosins poetic language engages the reader in a mesmerizing journey of inward reflection and exile.

  Isabel Allende

  Reflection, Journey, Language

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• Woman must be the pioneer in this turning inward for strength. In a sense, she has always been the pioneer.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Inspirational, Pioneers

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2010). “Gift from the Sea”, p.50, Random House

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• Nothing is more difficult to accomplish than changing outward actions without changing inward feelings.

  John C. Maxwell

  Feelings, Action, Difficult

  John C. Maxwell (2006). “Motivated to Succeed: Inspirational Selections from John C. Maxwell”, p.19, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Whenever I experience something beautiful, I am with Soul. That moment of inward breath, that pause and awareness of "how beautiful this is" is a prayer of appreciation, a moment of gratitude in which I behold beauty and am one with it.

  Jean Shinoda Bolen

  Beauty, Beautiful, Appreciation

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• As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Mind, Energy, Stills

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• Golf is a worrier's game, inward, concentrated, a matter of inches, invented by the same people who gave us Presbyterianism.

  Robert Hass

  Golf, Games, People

  Robert Hass (1984). “Twentieth century pleasures: prose on poetry”, Ecco Pr

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• Retire from the world each day to some private spot. Stay in the secret place till the surrounding noises begin to fade out of your heart and a sense of God's presence envelops you. Deliberately tune out the unpleasant sounds and come out of your closet determined not to hear them. Listen for the inward voice till you learn to recognize it.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Heart, Secret Places, Voice

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• We have real difficulty here because everyone thinks of changing the world, but where, oh where, are those who think of changing themselves? People may genuinely want to be good, but seldom are they prepared to do what it takes to produce the inward life of goodness that can form the soul. Personal formation into the likeness of Christ is arduous and lifelong.

  Richard J. Foster

  Real, Thinking, People

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• Prudence is the virtue of the senses. It is the science of appearances. It is the outmost action of the inward life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Action, Appearance, Virtue

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.72, Graphic Arts Books

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• The inward offer is a kind of spiritual enlightenment, whereby the promises are presented to the hearts of men, as it were, by an inward word.

  William Ames

  Spiritual, Heart, Men

  William Ames (1968). “The marrow of theology”

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• Order means light and peace, inward liberty and free command over one's self; order is power.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Mean, Light, Self

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• Any man shall speak the better when he knows what others have said, and sometimes the consciousness of his inward knowledge gives a confidence to his outward behavior, which of all other is the best thing to grace a man in his carriage.

  Owen Feltham

  Men, Giving, Grace

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• The attempt to satisfy greed is like drinking salty water when thirsty.
  When lost in greed we look outward rather than inward for satisfaction, yet we never find enough to fill the emptiness we wish to escape.
  The real hunger we feel is for knowledge of our true nature.

  Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

  Nature, Real, Drinking

  Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, Mark Dahlby (2004). “The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep”, p.38, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

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• I wanted to go to a place where I could think, really sink into my own imagination, or ride it, or drift along it, as in a balloon. The kind of place that probably all writers crave. The kind of place where the outside world is still and quiet and you get a chance to listen, to peer, to go inward

  Jeanne Marie Laskas

  Thinking, Imagination, Balloons

  Jeanne Marie Laskas (2010). “Fifty Acres and a Poodle: A Story of Love, Livestock, and Finding Myself on a Farm”, p.84, Bantam

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• Now, at a moment when photography is so pervasive that it's been forced to grapple with its own identity and look inward, it feels like a natural moment for painting to look out, to reclaim that directive of picturing America.

  Cynthia Daignault

  Photography, America, Identity

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Looking out at that crowd, I imagined those who had not yet arrived, minority students who, in years to come, would make this multitude of faces, the view from where I now stood, a little more various. If they could have heard me, I would have confided in them: As you discover what strength you can draw from your community in this world from which it stands apart, look outward as well as inward. Build bridges instead of walls.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Wall, Views, Years

  Sonia Sotomayor (2013). “My Beloved World”, p.164, Vintage

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• The more you are called to speak for God's love, the more you will need to deepen the knowledge of that love in your own heart. The farther the outward journey takes you, the deeper the inward journey must be. Only when your roots are deep can your fruits be abundant.

  Henri Nouwen

  Heart, Journey, Roots

  Henri Nouwen (2010). “The Inner Voice of Love: A Journey Through Anguish to Freedom”, p.94, Image

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• In order to swim one takes off all one's clothes--in order to aspire to the truth one must undress in a far more inward sense, divest oneself of all one's inward clothes, of thoughts, conceptions, selfishness etc., before one is sufficiently naked.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Truth, Order, Clothes

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• When one begins to reflect on philosophy—then philosophy seems to us to be everything, like God, and love. It is a mystical, highly potent, penetrating idea—which ceaselessly drives us inward in all directions. The decision to do philosophy—to seek philosophy is the act of self-liberation—the thrust toward ourselves.

  Novalis

  Philosophy, Ideas, Self

  Novalis (1997). “Novalis: Philosophical Writings”, p.48, SUNY Press

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• I'm not saying there's not darkness in there still, but it's happening from outward factors more than inward. Maybe things are terrifying, but they're beautiful, too. The world is extremely surprising.

  Gary Lightbody

  Beautiful, Darkness, World

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• Gratitude is a virtue disposing the mind to an inward sense and an outward acknowledgment of a benefit received, together with a readiness to return the same, or the like, as occasions of the doer of it shall require, and the abilities of the receiver extend to. He who receives a good turn, should never forget it: he who does one, should never remember it.

  Pierre Charron

  Gratitude, Mind, Together

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• The outward work can never be small if the inward one is great, and the outward work can never be great or good if the inward is small or of little worth.

  Meister Eckhart

  Littles, Ifs

  Eckhart (Meister) (1963). “Treatises and sermons of Meister Eckhart”

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