70 Inward Quotes for You to Enjoy

To live happily is an inward power of the soul. Marcus Aurelius

Soul Power Live Inward Happily

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

Art Aim Significance Outward Outward Appearance Inward Represent Appearance Things

Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent. Virginia Woolf

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

God You Envy Will Drawn Bestow Deliver Absorb Attention Removal Inward Occupation Beg May Which Your Away

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him. Soren Kierkegaard

Never quit believing that you can develop in life. Never give up. Don't deny the inward spirit that provides the drive to accomplish great things in life. Jon Huntsman, Sr.

Life Never Give Up Great You Great Things Drive Spirit Give Never Develop Never Quit Inward Accomplish Provides Up Deny Quit Believing Things

We are becoming able to see the pursuit of external power for what it is and the futility of trying to escape the pain of powerlessness by changing the world. When we look inward, not outward, we can dismantle the parts of our personalities that have controlled us for so long - such as anger, jealousy, vindictiveness, superiority, inferiority. Gary Zukav

Jealousy Anger Inferiority World Long Power Pain Changing Changing The World Our Futility See Able Superiority Pursuit Outward Look Powerlessness Inward Parts Becoming Escape Trying Controlled Personalities Dismantle Us Vindictiveness External

Anger is energising. The opposite of anger is depression, which is anger turned inward. Gloria Steinem

Depression Anger Inward Opposite Which Turned

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

Work Great Will Puny Never Outward Inward

A kiss is the outward visible sign of an inward fever. Minna Antrim

Kiss Visible Sign Outward Inward Fever

Instead of looking outside of ourselves and counting potential enemies, fasting summons us to turn our glance inward, and to take the measure of our greatest challenge: the self, the ego, in our own eyes and as others see us. Tariq Ramadan

Eyes Ego Enemies Challenge Looking Own Others Our Ourselves See Potential Take Outside Self Glance Instead Counting Inward Greatest Greatest Challenge Turn Us Measure Fasting

So this is how you swim inward. So this is how you flow outwards. So this is how you pray. Mary Oliver

You Inward How Pray Swim Flow

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Old Beauty Steals Inward Grow

In the contemporary world, we think of politeness as surface behavior, like frosting - it's sweet and attractive and finishes off the cake. But 19th century nobility and the enlightened thinkers and stoics before them viewed manners in a very different way. To them, manners are an outward expression of an inward struggle. Amor Towles

Struggle World Cake Behavior Before Manners Sweet Think Way Finishes Nobility Outward Like Contemporary Inward Attractive Contemporary World Politeness Surface Off Very Different Them Century Viewed Expression Different Way Thinkers Enlightened

Movements begin when oppressed people make - and keep remaking - a deeply inward decision to stop consenting to external demands that contradict a critical inner truth, the truth that they are worthy of respect. Parker Palmer

Truth Respect People Decision Critical Worthy Demands Inward Make Oppressed Contradict Begin Stop Movements Keep Deeply Inner External Consenting

If our inner being was to be turned to the outside, and our outer being turned inward, we would appear with more wounds and diseases than the Prophet Job. For each sin that we commit and each doubt that enters our mind causes wounds in our heart and our spirit. Said Nursi

The government is also looking at further benefits including enhanced capital allowances; the use of Tax Incremental Finance; and extra help from UK Trade and Investment on inward investment and trade opportunities. Andy Sawford

'Xen,' to me, was a necessary excursion inward, into myself. 'Mutant' is a response to it and is more extroverted. Arca

Myself Me Extroverted Response Mutant More Excursion Inward Necessary

Making music is an inward and outward gesture at once. I make it because I'm communing with a side of myself that might help me look people in the eye. But at the same time, I'm reaching out, in a way. Arca

The Arab population does not want to turn inward and be isolated. Ayman Odeh

Arab Inward Does Isolated Want Turn Population

I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward. Billie Joe Armstrong

Live Songwriter Tower Inward Ivory Just Being Want Turns Who

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