Quotes About Inward

This book is about the difference between a self-focused inward mindset and an others-inclusive outward mindset. It will help you become more outward in your work, your leadership, and your life. It will guide you in building more innovative and collaborative teams and organizations. And it will help you see why you like many of the people you do and what you can do to become more like them.

A culture of change can never be created by behavioral strategy alone. Peace—whether at home, work, or between peoples—is invited only when an intelligent outward strategy is married to a peaceful inward one.

As you will discover, the mutual impact people have on one another turns on whether they carry a self-focused inward mindset or an others-inclusive outward mindset. Understanding the dynamics of this mutual reciprocity and what to do to improve it is the focus of this book.

In fact, what obscures vision and exposes people to more risk is not an outward mindset, which stays fully alive to and aware of others, but an inward one, which turns its attention away from others while simultaneously provoking resistance.

A related reason why people resist making the most important move is that they think an outward mindset will make them soft when hard behavior is required. But this is a misunderstanding. As we've said, an outward mindset doesn't make people soft; it just makes them open, curious, and aware. Similarly, an inward mindset doesn't make people hard. In fact, people whose mindsets are inward often engage in behaviors that are softer than would actually be helpful.

The only place where we can touch Jesus and the Kingdom of God is within us.

Don't look outside yourself for happiness. Let go of the idea that you don't have it. It is available within you.

When you stand amid the unending vistas of Kenya's Maasai Mara, it's impossible to remain focused inward. Your mind expands to the distant horizons.

Below me, inside me, there's a pit that's dark and comforting and quite completely insane. If I sink into it, I can be free of all torture.

Ni bygger utifrån , vi byggs inifrån och in. Ni bygger med er själva som stenar och faller sönder utifrån och in. Vi bygger inifrån som träd, och det växer ut broar mellan oss som inte är död materia och dött tvång. Från oss går det levande ut. I er går det livlösa in, sid 75

Religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself.

Outer beauty attracts, but inner beauty captivates.

All she keeps inside isn't on the label.

If you are working inwardly, Nature will help you. For the man who is working, Nature is sister of charity; she brings him what he needs for his work. If you need money for your work, even if you do nothing to get it, the money will come to you from all sides.

One of the fundamentals of understanding love is that love comes from within oneself rather than from someone else.

Then he made one last effort to search in his heart for the place where his affection had rotted away, and he could not find it.

You refuse all help, reject all hope, and seem intent on living the most abject existence possible. If anyone is punishing you, look inward, not upward.

Let him think of Him as often as he can, especially in the greatest dangers. A little lifting up of the heart suffices. A little remembrance of GOD, one act of inward worship, though upon a march, and a sword in hand, are prayers, which, however short, are nevertheless very acceptable to GOD; and far from lessening a soldier's courage in occasions of danger, they best serve to fortify it.

It is a true rule that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque or with an inward and secret contempt.

Ill-humor is nothing more than an inward feeling of our own want of merit, a dissatisfaction with ourselves which is always united with an envy that foolish vanity excites.

I would hold, my friend, that what you describe is but one side of the matter, and indeed one that looks only inward, as if the borders of your life enclose everything to be valued, while what lies beyond is of no worth whatsoever.

She saw her breath curl in a white stream, drawn inward to the darkness beyond.

The Khaster that should have been had disappeared deep inside him.

It's so important to break the pattern of looking outside ourselves for self-esteem.