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Quotes About Inward

Heaven is inside us, ' Ida uttered in a rather loud whisper.
~ H. L. Balcomb
Humanity, take a good look at yourself. Inside, you've got heaven and earth, and all of creation. You're a world—everything is hidden in you.
~ Hildegard of Bingen
Princes have but their titles for their glories, An outward honor for an inward toil; And, for unfelt imaginations, They often feel a world of restless cares.
~ William Shakespeare
my mind is a world in itself, which I have peopled with my own creatures.
~ Lady Caroline Lamb
We turn outward, attracted by the beauty we see in created things without realizing that they are only a reflection of the real beauty. And the real beauty is within us.
~ Ernesto Cardenal
Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.
~ Joseph Campbell
I don't need anyone to hold me, I can hold my own.
~ Ani DiFranco
Success is more a part of who you are, than anything outside of you.
~ Jon Jones
Too many of us seem to be searching for something 'out there' to make our lives complete. What we are all really searching for is the divine essence that lives within.
~ Susan Jeffers
Spiritual growth-looking inward-is replacing the pursuit of external power-reaching outward to manipulate and control-as the cure for the insecurity at the core of human experience.
~ Gary Zukav
There is nothing outside of us. It's all in us.
~ Harbhajan Singh Yogi
Woman must be the pioneer in this turning inward for strength. In a sense, she has always been the pioneer.
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The solution you seek, can be found nowhere else but within you.
~ Abhijit Naskar
Events don't make a person interesting. It's who they are and what's inside them that makes them interesting.
~ Christy Reece, Too Far Gone
You can be inspired by others, but when you're inspired from within then you have real power for change.
~ Sue Fitzmaurice
Creation, in all its forms, is where I find beauty. If I could travel as far outward as I have inward, I would know with the utmost conviction that distance does not exist.
~ L.A. Rosenberg
He had laughed today; he had been happy. He didn't know why he had not counted more sunny hours in his life, but he hadn't. God had clearly asked him to, but he was intent on having his own nature, and his own nature could be inward, even melancholy. He didn't like it, but here it was.
~ Jan Karon
as some strings, untouched, sound when no one is speaking. So it was when love slipped inside us.
~ Jane Hirshfield
There is a feeling like anger and betrayal. It is like frustration. It is something interior, ineffable, and it yearns to be effed. I can only emit yells, instead.
~ Dustin Long
Damn everything but the circus! ...damn everything that is grim, dull, motionless, unrisking, inward turning, damn everything that won't get into the circle, that won't enjoy. That won't throw it's heart into the tension, surprise, fear and delight of the circus, the round world, the full existence...
~ E.E. Cummings
Angel became part of Claudia's story about finding herself, about how the greatest adventure lies not in running away but in looking inside, and the greatest discovery is not in finding out who made a statue but in finding out what makes you.
~ E.L. Konigsburg
Ninety percent of who you are is invisible.
~ E.L. Konigsburg
Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.
~ Eckhart Tolle
True Power is within, and it is available now.
~ Eckhart Tolle