Quotes About Inward

I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Slit me at my belly and it might slide out, meaty and dark, drop on the floor so you could stomp on it.

Desde entonces, lo mejor de mi vida estaba dentro de mí.

I myself cried when I got angry, then became unable to explain why I was angry in the first place. Later I would discover this was endemic among female human beings. Anger is supposed to be "unfeminine" so we suppress it -until it overflows. I could see that not speaking up made my mother feel worse. This was my first hint of the truism that depression is anger turned inward; thus women are twice as likely to be depressed.

As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old, inwardly its poetry is much deeper.

There is no way to the acquirement of spiritual power except by that inward illumination and enlightenment which is the realization of spiritual principles; and those principles can only be realized by constant practice and application.

The difference between a genius and an ordinary man is this - the one lives in inward realities, the other in outward appearances; the one goes after pleasure, the other after wisdom; the one relies on books, the other relies upon his own being. Book-learning is good when its true place is understood, but is not the source of wisdom. The source of wisdom is in life itself, and is comprehended by effort, practice, and experience.

Of a truth, there is an inward, formless, inarticulate, almost unconscious, prayer, the very breath of love, whereby the soul is knit fast to the God whom it has tracked, amidst the tangled underwood of human life, to his covert on the eternal hills.

Sanctification is not to be understood here as a separation from ordinary use or consecration to some special use, although this meaning is often present in Scripture, sometimes referring to outward and sometimes to inward or effectual separation.

In the center of your being there is a fountain of music and that is your love.

The greatest Church is within you, and it is made of love, courage and conscience.

Everything starts from inside of us, then comes outside of us.

When I Am Within, I Am Never Without.

People don't care what you name it, G. They like pie for what's on the inside.

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

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.

Surely the world we live in is but the world that lives in us.

I have an unremovable stain of self-confidence.

It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle.

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

The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.

A man's interest in the world is only an overflow from his interest in himself.

Self-reliance is the key to a vigorous life. A man must look inward to find his own answers.

God made the senses turn outwards, man therefore looks outwards, not into himself. But occasionally a daring soul, desiring immortality, has looked back and found himself.

The kingdom of God is within man, not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you!