Inward Eye Quotes

#1. Storytelling strengthens the imagination. To imagine is to envision, to see with the inward eye. This ability to imagine is the basis of all creativity. Creativity is being able to see beyond what is readily apparent. It is seeing a new answer to an old problem.

Carol Birch

#2. Faith is the sight of the inward eye.

Alexander MacLaren

#3. For oft, when on my couch I lie in vacant or in pensive mood they flash upon that inward eye which is the bliss of solitude

William Wordsworth

#4. Sorrow and loss are meant to prepare us for the vision of God to purge the inward eye that it may see Him.

Alexander MacLaren

#5. It sucks because you're trying to do the right thing, but the result isn't showing it. You're at the stage where good intentions meet crappy abilities. Welcome to my first eleven months as a vampire." "You've only been a vampire for ten months." "My point exactly.

Chloe Neill

#6. When I turn my eye inward, I find nothing but doubt and ignorance. All the world conspires to oppose and contradict me; though such is my weakness, that I feel all my opinions loosen and fall of themselves, when unsupported by the approbation of others.

David Hume

#7. The man was hit in one eye by a stone, and that eye turned inward so that it looked into his mind, and he died of what he saw there

Patricia A. McKillip

#8. Why in the case of the ear, is there withdrawal and turning inward, a making resonant, but in the case of the eye, there is manifestation and display, a making evident?

Jean-Luc Nancy

#9. I love Oklahoma. The fans have been with me every night. What more can you ask for?

Kevin Durant

#10. The TV ads have been coming hot and heavy in Ohio. I think the Obama campaign has outspent the Romney campaign by two-to-one or three-to-one, depending on the analysis you look at. People are tired of the attacks already, and here we are in July.

Rob Portman

#11. The giant Grof was hit in one eye by a stone, and that eye turned inward so that it looked into his mind, and he died of what he saw there. -Cyrin

Patricia A. McKillip

#12. I entered (into my inward self) and beheld with the eye of my soul ... the Light Unchangeable.

Saint Augustine

#13. Away from her lips. She controlled herself by the help of an inward defiance, and without other sign of emotion than this lip-paleness turned to her play. But Deronda's gaze seemed to have acted as an evil eye. Her stake was gone. No

George Eliot

#14. You must be patient, you must wait for the eye of the soul to be formed in you. Religious truth is reached, not by reasoning, but by an inward perception. Anyone can reason; only disciplined, educated, formed minds can perceive.

John Henry Newman

#15. Direct your eye right inward, and you'll find A thousand regions in your mind Yet undiscovered. Travel them, and be Expert in home-cosmography.

Henry David Thoreau

#16. If faith is the gaze of the heart at God, and if this gaze is but the raising of the inward eyes to meet the all-seeing eyes of God, then it follows that it is one of the easiest things possible to do.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#17. I am pure light, not just a fistful of clay. The shell is not me, I came as the royal pearl within. Look at me not with outward eye but with inward vision of the heart; Follow me there and see how unencumbered we become.

Rumi

#18. When you're still too young to shave, optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure. By

Stephen King

#19. Well, more or less, you just got struck by lightning."
"Wait, what?" My brain stopped processing for a prolonged moment unable to wrap around that one. How the hell had that happened? "So basically I was filled with 1.21 jiggawatts?
Can I travel through time now?

Elizabeth Sharp

#20. In a quiet place, close your eyes, take a deep breath, and go inward. Place your attention on your heart, in the center of your chest. Sit quietly and easily let your attention remain there.

Deepak Chopra

#21. Standing on soil feels so much different than standing on city pavement; it lets you look inward and reflect and see who you really are, while you see a beautiful, unspoiled land as far as the eye can see. It allows your inner life to grow.

Ricardo Montalban

#22. Hope fills the afflicted soul with such inward joy and consolation, that it can laugh while tears are in the eye, sigh and sing all in a breath; it is called "the rejoicing of hope" (Hebrews 3:6).

William Gurnall

#23. It's in your father's volume. Xcor is the blooded son of the Black Dagger Brother Hharm. Just as you are." Tohr

J.R. Ward

#24. To have her here in bed with me, breathing on me, her hair in my mouth - I count that something of a miracle.

Henry Miller

#25. The news that reaches your consciousness is incomplete and often not to be relied on ... Turn your eyes inward, look into your own depths, learn first to know yourself!

Sigmund Freud

#26. I grew up in a rural area, I was from kind of a poor family and my parents weren't showbiz people. But going back was strange, and perhaps stranger for the other students.

Henry Thomas

#27. It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much, but I am my own comedy and tragedy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#28. I believed that by a process of what I can only describe as inward dilation of the eyes I could increase my actual vision.

Paul Nash

#29. When you can't find the answers inside yourself God will lead you to someone who does.

Shannon L. Alder

#30. First thing you learn when you're in a lawin' family is that there ain't any definite answers to anything.

Harper Lee

#31. Maybe that was what happened when people grew up in a place where mountains shut them in, kept everything turned inward, buffered them from everything else. How long did it take before that landscape become internalized, was passed down from generation to generation like blood type or eye color?

Ron Rash