Top 779 Inward Quotes & Sayings

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

When you’re hurting deeply, you go inward.

True inward quietness is not that which may be produced by shutting out all outward causes of distraction -- a process which, when carried out too severely, may intensify the inward ferment of the mind, especially in the young. It is rather a state of stable equilibrium; it is not vacancy, but stability -- the steadfastness of a single purpose.

The wound that bleedeth inward is most dangerous.

Grace is the outcome of inward harmony.

Beloved Pan and all ye other gods who haunt this place, give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and the inward man be one.

Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.

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.

True goodness is an inward grace, not an outward necessity.

We rarely hear the inward music, but we're all dancing to it nevertheless.

If I rest, if I think inward, I go mad.

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.

Attitude is an inward thought that wiggles its way out.

This violent rage that turned inward cannot be helped by drink.

The ghost is the outward and visible signs of an inward fear.

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.

We always point the lens both outward and inward.

The goal of art is to inspire people to look inward.

Inward-looking unilateral trade policies invite retaliation.

In a great affliction there is no light either in the stars or in the sun; for when the inward light is fed with fragrant oil; there can be no darkness though the sun should go out. But when, like a sacred lamp in the temple, the inward light is quenched, there is no light outwardly, though a thousand suns should preside in the heavens.

That inward eye/ Which is the bliss of solitude.

Turn thy gaze inward, wherein resides the Supreme Self.

When the inward is good the outward is also inevitably so, for the outward always follows the inward, whether good or evil.

Give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and inward may be one.

They say depression is just anger turned inward. Sometimes I turn it outwards, sometimes I turn it inward, but I know it's about self-worth.

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.

I think what I've learned to do is not look inward as much.

For me, Savannah's resistance to change was its saving grace. The city looked inward, sealed off from the noises and distractions of the world at large. It grew inward, too, and in such a way that its people flourished like hothouse plants tended by an indulgent gardener. The ordinary became extraordinary. Eccentrics thrived. Every nuance and quirk of personality achieved greater brilliance in that lush enclosure than would have been possible anywhere else in the world.

And when it is suggested that the inward feelings of power or inward monitions or losses of judgement are the germs out of which the divine machinery developed, I return that truth is just the reverse, that the presence of voices which had to be obeyed were the absolute prerequisite to the conscious stage of mind in which it is the self that is responsible and can debate within itself, can order and direct, and that the creation of such a self is the product of culture. In a sense, we have become our own gods.

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

There never was a war that was not inward.

Without prayer there is no inward peace.

God sweetens outward pain with inward peace.

Words . . . present a picture of the inward man.

Faith is the sight of the inward eye.

President Donald Trump's policies are not global but inward-looking.

I...Kisss the tender inward of thy hand.

Baptism is an outward expression of an inward faith.

Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are.

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.

Prayer is either petitional or, in its wider sense, inward communion.

A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith's usual result.

You turn inward. There's nothing to distract you, so you begin to look at yourself.

To be free from ignorance you need knowledge. The mind should turn inward. Silence takes the mind inward and helps you to recognize who you are.

Inward is not a direction. Inward is a dimension.

Let us labor for an inward stillness-- An inward stillness and an inward healing. That perfect silence where the lips and heart Are still, and we no longer entertain Our own imperfect thoughts and vain opinions, But God alone speaks to us and we wait In singleness of heart that we may know His will, and in the silence of our spirits, That we may do His will and do that only

The doorway to success swings outward not inward.

Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?

The only test of a soul's salvation is its inward happiness.

Fear begins and ends with the desire to be secure; inward and outward security, with the desire to be certain, to have permanency. The continuity of permanence is sought in every direction, in virtue, in relationship, in action, in experience, in knowledge, in outward and inward things. To find security and be secure is the everlasting cry. It is this insistent demand that breeds fear.

Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success.

An attitude is: an inward feeling expressed by an outward action.

Vision looks inward and becomes duty.

Hypocrisy is the outward acknowledgment of inward shame.

Strive to realize a state of inward happiness, independent of circumstances.

My motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice.

Teaching and writing are separate, but serve/feed one another in so many ways. Writing travels the road inward, teaching, the road out - helping OTHERS move inward - it is an honor to be with others in the spirit of writing and encouragement.

You gotta go inward To experience the outer space That was built for you

Depression is anger turned inward.

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