Quotes About Inward

Only when we discover that the pain of being the way we are is greater than the pain of trying to change will we put forth the effort necessary to make significant progress on our inward journey.

He was outwardly calm but inwardly bleeding to death.

I believe that poems die the moment they are outwardly expressed.

The movement of this Work is psychologically inwards, at first. Later it is both inwards and outwards.

Mržnja je bila u meni kao mra?na i strašna snaga

Without company, misery turns to sorrow, and sorrow turns inward, curling up in some dark, damp corner.

We're all the same under our skin, aren't we? We're all wanting things we don't understand. Things we can't even name. The yearning so deep, like pinions over our hearts.

The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great.

It is not outside us: it is all within.

Jesus, you are hereby officially welcomed into me. Now only action will reveal your effect on me.

Porque esta guerra não foi feita para vos tirar do país mas para tirar o país de dentro de vós.

For this war was not made to take you away from your country, but to take your country away from within you.

A saudade é uma tatuagem na alma: só nos livramos dela perdendo um pedaço de nós.

The temple, or the house of God, truly lies within us rather than outside.

The kingdom of God is within us. Now go inside yourself and find it!

How do you escape something that comes from inside? The revenant, he knew, searched for him.

Vocês homens têm esse lado de conflito interior, que veneram. Por dever de consciência, suportam inimigos e abandonam amigos.

The term "autotelic" derives from two Greek words, auto meaning self, and telos meaning goal. It refers to a self-contained activity, one that is done not with the expectation of some future benefit, but simply because the doing itself is the reward.

Power returns to the person when rewards are no longer relegated to outside forces. It is no longer necessary to struggle for goals that always seem to recede into the future, to end each boring day with the hope that tomorrow, perhaps, something good will happen. Instead of forever straining for the tantalizing prize dangled just out of reach, one begins to harvest the genuine rewards of living.

Narcissistic individuals, who are mainly concerned with protecting their self, fall apart when the external conditions turn threatening. The ensuing panic prevents them from doing what they must do; their attention turns inward in an effort to restore order in consciousness, and not enough remains to negotiate outside reality.

Anger turned inward, for instance, can lead to depression

The mind that turns ever outward Will have no end to craving. Only the mind turned inward Will find a still-point of peace.

She was struggling against a current that brought her inside herself.

Beauty does not depend on external details; Beauty reflects the inner disposition, the internal state of one's being.