Top 100 Inward Outward Quotes
#1. I'm you, Blake. I'm a reflection of you, a multi-dimensional reflection. It's easier to see a reflection of yourself than to see yourself in a reflection. It's an inward/outward thing.
Trent Zelazny
#3. May the inward and outward man be as one.
Socrates
#4. Human beings are comfortable with what is outward, visible, material and superficial. What matters to God is a deep, inward, secret work of the Holy Spirit in our hearts.
John R.W. Stott
#5. Sometimes, if we can't find another person to dump our anger on, we turn it on ourselves. The textbook definition of depression is anger turned inward instead of being discharged outward.
Harold S. Kushner
#6. Whatever draws the mind outward is unspiritual and whatever draws the mind inward is spiritual
Ramana Maharshi
#7. The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within.
Mahatma Gandhi
#8. I see men's judgments are A parcel of their fortunes; and things outward Do draw the inward quality after them, To suffer all alike.
William Shakespeare
#9. When your consciousness is directed outward, mind and world arise. When it is directed inward, it realises its own Source and returns home into the Unmanifested.
Eckhart Tolle
#10. Hypocrisy is the outward acknowledgment of inward shame.
Norm MacDonald
#11. A civilization that only looks inward will stagnate. We have to keep looking outward; we have to keep finding new avenues for human endeavor and human expression.
John L. Phillips
#12. Nature endlessly in every direction
inward to your body and outward into space.
Jack Kerouac
#13. Beloved Pan and all ye other gods who haunt this place, give me beauty in the inward soul, and may the outward and the inner man be at one.
Socrates
#14. We prefer to explore the universe by traveling inward, as opposed to outward.
Nnedi Okorafor
#15. Any single path truly taken leads to all the others. What matters is choosing a starting place - where to stand and begin spinning outward. Even then, you will find that outward and inward become the same direction. The center of the wheel is everywhere.
Robin Morgan
#16. If nothing's working for you, if you feel as though you're pushing forward against the grain, the most productive and proactive thing you can do is nothing. Nature is turning you inward, to gain power through peace, rather than outward to gain power through activity.
Martha N. Beck
#17. Let me be one of the upward and outward lookers, not one of the downward and inward lookers.
Alfred Edersheim
#19. I'm not saying there's not darkness in there still, but it's happening from outward factors more than inward. Maybe things are terrifying, but they're beautiful, too. The world is extremely surprising.
Gary Lightbody
#20. Am seeking perhaps what Socrates asked for in the prayer from the Phaedrus when he said, May the outward and inward man be at one.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#21. Depression is not 'anger turned inward'; if anything, anger is depression turned outward. Follow the trail of anger inward, and there you will find the small, still voice of pain.
Carol Tavris
#22. Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
William Hazlitt
#24. The inward area is the first place of loss of true Christian life, of true spirituality, and the outward sinful act is the result.
Francis Schaeffer
#26. GHOST, n. The outward and visible sign of an inward fear. - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
Chet Williamson
#27. Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
Benjamin Franklin
#28. To gain an overall understanding of oneself does not require looking outward - it requires the strength of looking inward.
Michelle Cruz-Rosado
#29. Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success.
Kenneth L. Pike
#30. Worship is an inward feeling and outward action that reflects the worth of God.
John Piper
#31. In a sacred moment, when attention is pulled inward, rather than continuing in its usual outward direction, silence is realized.
Gangaji
#32. There must be a certain amount of imitation, copying, in outward technique, but when there is inward, psychological imitation surely we cease to be creative.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#33. One of the first performances of faith is hearing. We hear the voice of God, not with the outward ear alone, but with the inward ear; we hear it as God's Word, and we believe it to be so; that is the "hearing" of faith.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#34. Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.
Matthew Arnold
#35. Those who travel outward seek completeness in things; those who gaze inward find sufficiency in themselves.
Liezi
#36. An inward sincerity will of course influence the outward deportment; but where the one is wanting, there is great reason to suspect the absence of the other.
Laurence Sterne
#37. Islam is a way of life which opens the heart to the meaning of existence. Thus any increase of outward splendor is usually a sign of a decrease in inward illumination
Ahmad Thomson
#38. Sanctification is not to be understood here as a separation from ordinary use or consecration to some special use, although this meaning is often present in Scripture, sometimes referring to outward and sometimes to inward or effectual separation.
William Ames
#39. Happiness is a choice. Happiness does not depend on outward conditions but on inward decisions.
Cameron C. Taylor
#40. The inward battle
against our mind, our wounds, and the residues of the past
is more terrible than outward battle.
Sivananda
#41. -The provisions you need to fulfill you ministry or mission is locked up in the open doors of utterance, faith and call
-During your waiting time look inward to yourself, upward to God, then outward to ur environ
Ikechukwu Joseph
#42. When one's outward lot is perfect, the sense of inward imperfection is the more pressing.
George Eliot
#43. In times of suffering, don't turn inward to self-pity or outward to revenge, but turn to the lover of your soul, Jesus.
Crystal Mary Lindsey
#44. We are the strongest filter we can place before the lens. We point the lens both outward and inward.
John Paul Caponigro
#45. When we look outside of that on which we depend we ignore our unity; looking outward we see many faces; look inward and all is one head. If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
Plotinus
#46. A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.
Thomas Carlyle
#47. Truth in art is the unity of a thing with itself: the outward rendered expressive of the inward: the soul made incarnate: the body instinct with spirit. For this reason there is no truth comparable to sorrow.
Oscar Wilde
#48. Optimism, then, is a fact within my own heart. But as I look out upon life, my heart meets no contradiction. The outward world justifies my inward universe of good.
Helen Keller
#49. Outward attacks and troubles rather fix than unsettle the Christian, as tempests from without only serve to root the oak faster; while an inward canker will gradually rot and decay it.
Hannah More
#50. I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture.
Laurence Olivier
#51. As no outward motion or change, when normal, in man's external body can take place unless provoked by an inward impulse, given through one of the three functions named, so with the external or manifested Universe.
Helena Blavatsky
#52. Religion that does not inspire
outward compassion and inward awakening
is not religion.
Ivan M. Granger
#54. To have a deeper understanding of life one must pause from looking outward and travel inward into the depths of consciousness.
Jiulio Consiglio
#55. Opinion's but a fool, that makes us scan the outward habit by the inward man.
William Shakespeare
#56. The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great.
Meister Eckhart
#57. Now perhaps an excessive dread of overpopulation
overcrowding
reflects not an outward reality, but an inward state of mind. If you feel overcrowded when you're not, what does that mean? Maybe that you're afraid of human contact
of being close to people, of being touched.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#58. A man's attire is only an outward projection of his inward self ...
Chris Brown
#59. If we want to change our world, we do not begin by rectifying the outward. Instead, we must change the condition of our inward.
Hamza Yusuf
#60. In Buddhist practice, the outward and inward aspects of taking the one seat meet on our meditation cushion.
Jack Kornfield
#61. False notions of liberty are strangely common. People talk of it as if it meant the liberty of doing whatever one likes - whereas the only liberty that a man, worthy of the name of man, ought to ask for, is, to have all restrictions, inward and outward, removed that prevent his doing what he ought.
Frederick William Robertson
#62. Up and down, good and bad, sacred and profane: these are all assumed. But inward and outward: this is the one context we are sure of, the one context we can work with. This is Adiyogi's most significant contribution to humankind and it is a profound and enduring one: "The only way out is in." Once
Sadhguru
#63. God lives and works in history. The outward mythology changes, the inward truth remains the same.
Iris Murdoch
#64. One important difference between the two states is that Pakistan's domestic and external policies are more entwined than those of India, partly because of Pakistan's more perilous geostrategic position and partly because the dominant Pakistan army looks both inward and outward.
Stephen Philip Cohen
#65. It is not in the outward and visible world of material life that the Celtic genius of Wales or Ireland can at this day hope to count for much; it is in the inward world of thought and science.What it has been, what is has done, what it will be or will do, as a matter of modern politics.
Matthew Arnold
#66. Nothing is more difficult to accomplish than changing outward actions without changing inward feelings.
John C. Maxwell
#67. Saddest of all God's creatures in the world is the religious person who has disciplined himself to outward obedience but who has no inward love to God.
Walter Chantry
#68. The ground of being is the ground of our being, and when we simply turn outward, we see all of these little problems here and there. But, if we look inward, we see that we are the source of them all.
Joseph Campbell
#69. To each is given a certain inward talent, a certain outward environment or fortune; to each by wisest combination of these two, a certain maximum capacity.
Thomas Carlyle
#70. Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.
Henry Van Dyke
#71. As you discover what strength you can draw from your community in this world from which it stands apart, look outward as well as inward. Build bridges instead of walls.
Sonia Sotomayor
#72. Tattoos to me are the outward symbol of the inward change within my soul.
Nicolas Cage
#73. Wear modest, clean clothing. Your clothing doesn't need to be new and [it] should have some fashion of course, but [it] should be clean, modest, and neat. Be dignified in your outward manner and in your inward morality.
Bruce R. McConkie
#74. For according to the outward man, we are in this world, and according to the inward man, we are in the inward world.... Since then we are generated out of both worlds, we speak in two languages, and we must be understood also by two languages.
Jakob Bohme
#75. Pain makes humans selfish. Blocked off. Focused inward instead of outward.
Tarryn Fisher
#76. Making one object, in outward or inward nature, more holy to a single heart is reward enough for a life; for the more sympathies we gain or awaken for what is beautiful, by so much deeper will be our sympathy for that which is most beautiful,
the human soul!
James Russell Lowell
#77. Just try to keep the heart turned outward, as well as having moments inward.
Kimbra
#78. The fairy tale journey may look like an outward trek across plains and mountains, through castles and forests, but the actual movement is inward, into the lands of the soul.
Terri Windling
#79. If the doctrine of a church is that people outside of Christ will face an eternity in hell, yet the culture is one that does not celebrate conversions or evangelistic witness, the culture of the church will contradict its doctrinal stance by continually focusing inward instead of outward.
Matt Chandler
#80. Prayer is inward communication with yourself; action is outward conversation with God.
Steve Maraboli
#81. From innumerable complexities we must grow to simplicity; we must become simple in our inward life and in our outward needs.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#82. The green has widened for an Arcadian delight, and over the sky, the sun had departed. But the moonlit beams unshackled the sulky spells of life. Moon adorned with eloquent jewelry of purple as a semblance to her inward gloom and outward passion.
Nithin Purple
#83. 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.
Lawrence Durrell
#84. Our fate is shaped from within ourselves outward, never from without inward.
Jacques Lusseyran
#85. Exploration ... no longer seemed aimed at some outward discovery; rather, it was directed inward ...
David Grann
#86. To harness your potentials,look inward,upward to God,then outward your environment
Ikechukwu Joseph
#87. An outward observance without any real inward meaning is only a ceremony.
Alfred Edersheim
#88. An extended stay in the wilderness inevitably directs one's attention outward as much as inward, and it is impossible to live off the land without developing both a subtle understanding of, and a strong emotional bond with, that land and all it holds.
Jon Krakauer
#89. The purpose of any charity is simply to turn people's mirrors into windows. An outward view of the world's needs are vast in comparison to an inward one.
Shannon L. Alder
#90. God is more concerned with conforming me to the likeness of His Son than leaving me in my comfort zones. God is more interested in inward qualities than outward circumstances - things like refining my faith, humbling my heart, cleaning up my thought life and strengthening my character.
Joni Eareckson Tada
#91. Baptism is an outward expression of an inward faith.
Watchman Nee
#93. Nature allows
Destruction nor collapse of aught, until
Some outward force may shatter by a blow,
Or inward craft, entering its hollow cells,
Dissolve it down.
Lucretius
#94. When your institution is under assault, you're feeling like the weight is on it and the history might be flowing away, don't turn inward, go outward.
David Brooks
#95. All satanic works are performed from the outside inward; all divine works from the inside outward.
Watchman Nee
#96. Inward solitude has outward manifestations. There is the freedom to be alone, not in order to be away from people but in order to hear the divine Whisper better.
Richard J. Foster
#97. Her paintings formed a visual diary, an outward manifestation of her inward dialog that was, all too often, a scream of pain.
Gerry Souter
#98. I do think that the sense of being opposed to the present moment, that sense of the rub of history, invigorates the writing I find most exciting, and maybe precisely in being equally allegiant to an inward fineness of sensibility and an outward-facing rigor of protest or critique.
Garth Greenwell
#99. 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
#100. I'd seen
their hoofprints in the deep
needles and knew
they ended the long night
under the pines ...
I was thinking:
so this is how you swim inward,
so this is how you flow outward,
so this is how you pray.
(from poem, "Five A.M. in the Pinewoods")
Mary Oliver
