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Nothing is more difficult to accomplish than changing outward actions without changing inward feelings.
My motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice.
The kind of happiness that stays with you is the happiness that springs from inward thoughts and emotions.
I turn my gaze inward. I fix it there and keep it busy. I look inside myself. I continually observe myself.
Woman must be the pioneer in this turning inward for strength. In a sense, she has always been the pioneer.
The most prosaic of us betray a belief in the inward life every time we talk about 'my body' rather than 'I.
Everything in our lives is encouraging us to turn inward with all the technology that we have available to us.
To look for a job before looking deeply inward is likely to short-circuit the process of finding your calling.
It is a true rule that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque or with an inward and secret contempt.
Find the courage and the strength to turn inward and to ask a simple, soaring question. What would LOVE do NOW?
Necessity is cruel, but it is the only test of inward strength. Every fool may live according to his own likings.
I would suggest that the next generation stop looking for happiness outside of themselves but instead turn inward.
'Xen,' to me, was a necessary excursion inward, into myself. 'Mutant' is a response to it and is more extroverted.
What the artist must render is a living moment somehow, a living moment actually in action or an inward experience.
The way you understand and investigate time is by moving inward, into metabolism. The human body is a knot in time.
Prudence is the virtue of the senses. It is the science of appearances. It is the outmost action of the inward life.
Since 2005, I have been on a steadfast journey inward as a self-proclaimed Spirit Junkie. And I've never looked back.
This is the curse of superficial religion: the constant attempt to do outward things apart from inward transformation.
When a profession is protected by academic freedom and tenure, it tends to turn inward. To a large extent that's good.
Allow regular time for silent reflection. Turn inward and digest what has happened. Let the senses rest and grow still.
A satyagrahi turns the searchlight inward relentlessly to weed out all the defects that may be lying hidden there still.
One must not look inward too much, while the inside is yet tender. I do not wish to frighten myself until I can stand it.
Nature inspires me because it's so peaceful. It makes me have an inward experience. It makes me reflective and nostalgic.
To gain an overall understanding of oneself does not require looking outward - it requires the strength of looking inward.
I believed that by a process of what I can only describe as inward dilation of the eyes I could increase my actual vision.
The practice of being at ease also gives you the strength and stamina to pursue all that you find when you connect inward.
We are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness is the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason.
To eliminate the inner turmoil we must focus our attention inward and act with loving kindness to ourselves—and each other.
Surrender yourselves then to be led and disposed of just as God pleases, with respect both to your outward and inward state.
There is no form of conviction more intimate and irresistible than that which arises from the inward teaching of the Spirit.
Yes, in all my research, the greatest leaders looked inward and were able to tell a good story with authenticity and passion.
I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent.
Your tendency to be inward-directed or outward-directed is huge; it governs every part of the way you live and work and love.
True freedom is an inward state of being. Once it is attained, no situation in the world can bind one or limit one's freedom.
In a sacred moment, when attention is pulled inward, rather than continuing in its usual outward direction, silence is realized.
Great are the symbols of Being, But that which is symboled is greater; Vast the create and beheld, But vaster the Inward Creator.
The inward area is the first place of loss of true Christian life, of true spirituality, and the outward sinful act is the result.
Shakespeare was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of the books to read nature; he looked inward, and found her there.
It is labor alone that is productive: it creates wealth and therewith lays the outward foundations for the inward flowering of man.
To discern what weaknesses and faults separate you from God, you must enter into your own inward ground and then confront yourself.
A Christian is Christ in the inward humanity; and a Jew is Christ in the figure, and in the office of his law, viz. according to nature.
I think there's a danger, for me at least, in retreating and going inward and depression. I have to stay diligent against that tendency.
We are always looking for solutions from someone else. We forget that if we turn our mind inward, we can get some ideas, some solutions.
If you are aware, you speak with awareness. But the awareness comes from the inward being. It flows from the inner being towards others.
When you are with the wrong person, who doesn't really love you, all you want is to be adored. It makes you more inward and needy. Gross.
They flower spontaneously out of the demands of our natures - and the best of them lead us not only outward in space, but inward as well.
The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.
still hope leads men to venture; and no one ever yet put himself in peril without the inward conviction that he would succeed in his design.
They say depression is just anger turned inward. Sometimes I turn it outwards, sometimes I turn it inward, but I know it's about self-worth.
Do not worry about what others are doing! Each of us should turn the searchlight inward and purify his or her own heart as much as possible.