Quotes About Inward

Temptations and occasions put nothing into a man, but only draw out what was in him before.

For the most part people are not curious except about themselves.

You're growing up. Maybe that's it," he said softly. "Sometimes I think the world tests us most sharply then, and we turn inward and watch ourselves with horror. But that's not the worst. We think everybody is seeing into us. Then dirt is very dirty and purity is shining white.

His mind grinned inward at itself.

Non-doing can arise within action as well as in stillness. The inward stillness of the doer merges with the outward activity to such an extent that the action does itself. Effortless activity. Nothing is forced. There is no exertion of the will, no small-minded "I," "me," or "mine" to lay claim to a result, yet nothing is left undone. Non-doing is a cornerstone of mastery in any realm of activity.

Grace makes us inwardly RIGHT so we walk outwardly UPRIGHT

Worship is an inward reverence, the bowing down of the soul in the presence of God.

An outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace.

We are all alike, on the inside.

Authentic art does not proclaim itself for it is achieved in silence.

Even when one is no longer interested in things, it is still something to have been interested in them; because it was always for reasons which other people did not grasp. The memory of those sentiments is, we feel, to be found only in ourselves; we must go back into ourselves to study it.

Il destino è come il cuore: è dentro di noi fin dal primo istante, perciò è inutile cercare di cambiarlo.

Hate-hardened heart, O heart of iron, iron is iron till it is rust. There never was a war that was not inward;

Hate-hardened heart, O heart of iron, iron is iron till it is rust. There never was a war that was not inward; I must fight till I have conquered in myself what causes war, but I would not believe it. I inwardly did nothing. O Iscariot-like crime! Beauty is everlasting and dust is for a time.

What can be my highest idea of forgiveness? Nothing beyond myself. Which of you can jump out of your own bodies? Which of you can jump out of your own minds? Not one of you.

Laws provide against injury from others; but not from ourselves.

Happiness is within you, don't look for it elsewhere, you're your own Happiness so find it within you, it's your journey of Happiness this Journey of Life.

Happiness is what we get from within ourselves. Your heart is happy, the outside will come along with it.

It matters little for what's around and beyond compared to what's within us.

We are going to the moon that is not very far. Man has so much farther to go within himself.

It doesn't matter what you look like on outside...Its whats on the inside counts.

True happiness is to be found within, in the state of our hearts. It does not exist on the far side of some distant mountains. It is within you, yourself.

Men are free when they are in a living homeland, not when they are straying and breaking away. Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, be

It's not about doing great things for God; it's about God doing great things in us.