Quotes About Inward

I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture.

Vision looks inward and becomes duty.

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What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.

Grief was dagger-shaped and sharp and pointed inward. It was made of fresh loss and old sorrow. Rendered and forged and sometimes polished. Irene Finney had taken her daughter's death and to that sorrow she'd added a long life of entitlement and disappointment, of privilege and pride. And the dagger she'd fashioned was taking a brief break from slashing her insides, and was now pointed outward.

And a secret inward voice in my head was saying (in a strange breathy voice...) Yes, yessss, I will pop round to The Blind Pig. I will 'pop' round because guess who lives at the Blind Pig? It is not a blind pig, it is Alex.

Fear is another emotion that is strongly suppressed. We cannot afford to be afraid, and so we don't allow ourselves to sense and feel the fear within us. We lower our brows to deny it, set our jaws to defy it, and smile to deceive ourselves. But inwardly we remain scared to death.

It is labor alone that is productive: it creates wealth and therewith lays the outward foundations for the inward flowering of man.

Just because you can't see the wound doesn't mean it isn't hurting.

She turned to stare out the window, lost in a thousand thoughts, not a single one of which Danielle could guess.

I understood why you didn't cry, even though it hurt: there are kinds of pain you couldn't speak out loud. •

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Psychologist and philosopher James Allen states, "You cannot travel within and stand still without."2 Soon, what is happening within us will affect what is happening without. A hardened attitude is a dreaded disease. It causes a closed mind and a dark future. When the attitude is positive and conducive to growth, the mind expands, and the progress begins.

The unexamined life is not worth leading." I would add that the unexamined leader is not worth following.

It is so hard to fight with the tears that aren't coming from your eyes, but you are silently weeping inside your heart.

Silence is a girl's loudest cry. If she is speechless, her heart is too tired for words.

Grace is not something outside or you.. In fact, your very desire for grace is due to grace that is already working in you.

Everything I desire is within me.

Pride works _from within_; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from without.

Some people say that music isn't something you are; it's something you do. It's having a constant desire to share and express. But I believe it's something you are. To me it's more inward.

Our destiny is determined, not by what we possess, but by what possess us.

You don't need to explain your dreams. They belong to you.

It's only after you've found what you want inside of you that you can find it outside of you.

I'm a loner and always have been.