Outer Self Quotes

#1. 16So we do not lose heart. f Though our outer self [4] is wasting away, g our inner self h is being renewed day by day.

Anonymous

#2. God created us in such a way that our inner self is in the spiritual world and our outer self is in the physical world. This was so that the spiritual part of us, which belongs in heaven, could be planted in the physical part the way a seed is planted in the ground.

Emanuel Swedenborg

#3. Most timidities have such secret compensations and Miss Bart was discerning enough to know that the inner vanity is generally in proportion to the outer self depreciation.

Edith Wharton

#4. Many people feel their outer self isn't the whole self.

Jeanette Winterson

#5. The inner self is as distinct from the outer self as heaven is from earth.

Emanuel Swedenborg

#6. Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It's about accepting all of yourself.

Tyra Banks

#7. Outer peace can only be manifested through inner peace for what goes on within us will manifest outwardly. It's important to take some time each day to go within to befriend our inner self
Sasha Samy

Sasha Samy

#8. What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

Plutarch

#9. There are 2 versions of Self Image. Inner and Outer.
Get in touch with the inner self image and dispose of any concept of the outer world. Feel the energy that comes from this image and start being true from source of this energy. The source of god.

Matthew Donnelly

#10. By reshaping or decorating our outer selves, we express our inner sense of self: 'I like that' becomes 'I'm like that.'

Virginia Postrel

#11. We seek love in relationships, peace in security, and joy in material things ... but these feelings are divine and not dependent on any outer circumstances.

Vivian Amis

#12. Phoebe Marks was a person who never lost her individuality. Silent and self-contained, she seemed to hold herself within herself, and take no colour from the outer world.

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

#13. Understand that there is no relationship between your inner happiness and your inner joy and the outer things that you experience and behold in the world, that it all begins with you, the world is a mirror to your own Self, when you can look at things and feel joy not in the things but in yourself.

Goswami Kriyananda

#14. Your inner strength is your outer foundation

Allan Rufus

#15. The church doctrines of obedience to authority, repentance, fear of punishment, self-abnegation, acceptance of outer direction rather than inner assurance, elevation of faith over reason, and intolerance make institutionalized religion an ideal instrument of social constraint.

Madalyn Murray O'Hair

#16. Why are we here? We exist not to pursue happiness, which is fleeting, or outer accomplishment, which can always be bettered. We are here to nourish the self.

Deepak Chopra

#17. All change is from the inner to the outer. All change begins in the self-concept. You must become the person you want to be on the inside before you see the appearance of this person on the outside.

Brian Tracy

#18. Time, place, and space for all things, but spending [the] majority of one's time playing in outer places, and far less time exploring inner space, is perhaps the worst form of neglect. Don't play yourself; the real you awaits.

T.F. Hodge

#19. Self-confidence comes naturally when your inner life and your outer life are in harmony.

Brian Tracy

#20. In this regard, pleasure is an event; happiness is a process. Pleasure is an end point; happiness is the journey. Pleasure is material; happiness is spiritual. Pleasure is self-involved; happiness is outer- and other-involved.

Laura Schlessinger

#21. Your clothes are not your true self; your outer appearance is not your true self; your heart inside your body is not your true self and your words are not your true self. Your true self is your hidden thoughts that no one knows about them!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#22. By becoming self-aware, you gain ownership of reality; in becoming real, you become the master of both inner and outer life.

Deepak Chopra

#23. If you want to surpass the stages of doubt and secure better communication between your inner and outer body it is wise to surpass the challenge of the words 'if only'.

Stephen Richards

#24. If your outer world is shaky, go within.

Nikki Rowe

#25. Boldness ... is outer directed ... and makes others feel more at ease because it's less self-conscious.

Robert Greene

#26. Your outer world mirrors your inner world. How you view your outer world is how you view you, your inner world, the 'you' that needs your care, your attention, your compassion and your love.

Kelly Martin

#27. True beauty radiates not from outer cosmetics, but from the simple joy of making a difference for those that need your voice, passion, and time without expecting or wanting anything in return ...

Deborah Barnes

#28. Each of us does, in effect, strike a series of deals or compromises between the wants and longings of the inner self, and an outer environment that offers certain possibilities and sets certain limitations.

Maggie Scarf

#29. Our outer face can hide several other faces that we have inside

Munia Khan

#30. The outer expression of a person often reflects the inner perception and deeper beliefs.

Debasish Mridha

#31. I come to the understanding that maybe what was on the inside was more important, and that your outer covering didn't count so much as folks thought it did, colored or white, man or woman.

James McBride

#32. True inner joy is self-created.
It does not depend on outer circumstances.
A river is flowing in and through you carrying the message of joy.
This divine joy is the sole purpose of life.

Sri Chinmoy

#33. The Western day is indeed nearing when the inner science of self-control will be found as necessary as the outer conquest of nature. This new Atomic Age will see men's minds sobered and broadened by the now scientifically indisputable truth that matter is in reality a concentrate of energy.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#34. Self-esteem is an inner feeling: Sometimes it corresponds with outer reality, and sometimes it doesn't.

Stanley Greenspan

#35. Skin is not only an envelope protecting the inner body, or a membrane that allows exchange between exterior and interior of the body. It also serves as a mingling point between the outer world and inner self, and between body and soul.

Miru Kim

#36. Within that ageing outer shell we remain very much the same as we did in our late teens and early twenties.

M.M. Kaye

#37. There are two sides to self-discovery, as in most things, an outer more popular side and an inner side. The popular side presents more of a simplified form.

Frederick Lenz

#38. We are troubled by having two selves, the inner and the outer. The outer one is rather dull and lets great things go by.

Robert Henri

#39. Flowers speak to us if we listen. Appreciating the blossom in hand or pausing in the garden to admire the beauty quiets our outer selves till we hear something new, something we did not hear before - the still, small voice of Nature herself.

Jean Hersey

#40. Inner beauty magnifies outer beauty.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#41. I think the inner and outer aspects of the self together make one person.

Mamoru Hosoda

#42. How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.

Franz Kafka

#43. Claiming our birthright means living in beauty inwardly regardless of our outer circumstances. It means cultivating the qualities coded in our hearts.

Lori Cash Richards

#44. Don't cling to your self-concept purely because your will demands it. Demand that your environment aligns as much as possible and change what you must about yourself when the outer world can't be changed. Mental health is about mental fluidity, mental illness stems in rigidity.

Oli Anderson

#45. Not on the outer world For inward joy depend; Enjoy the luxury of thought, Make thine own self friend; Not with the restless throng, In search of solace roam But with an independent zeal Be intimate at home.

Lydia Sigourney

#46. Inner stillness is the key to outer strength.

Jared Brock

#47. Happiness and joy are inner qualities that can't be shaken by outer circumstances because they are inherent within the core Self.

Michael Beckwith

#48. William James described success as a combination of two things. An inner ideal which is followed persistently with courage and Outer achievement related to that ideal.

Jim Rohn

#49. For he felt about the whole affair the touch somewhere of a great Outer Horror - and his scattered powers had not as yet had time to collect themselves into a definite attitude of fighting self-control.

Algernon Blackwood

#50. Gaiety is forgetfulness of the self, melancholy is memory of the self: in that state the soul feels all the power of its roots, nothing distracts it from its profound homeland and the look that it casts upon the outer world is gently dismayed.

Adrienne Monnier

#51. You are now on a journey, not just an outer journey, but an inner journey of growth and self-discovery.

G.E.F. Neilson

#52. We alays blame the outer world for our failures, unhappiness and frustration. It is time to realise that it is health, harmony and wealth of our inner world that determine the degree of our success, joy, peace and bliss.

Vishwas Chavan

#53. I don't know where ideas come from. They come from outer space or God, if you like, or from my subconscious mind. But I never go ou self-consciously looking for a story.

Richard Adams

#54. If we reverse the outer shell and the essence
in other words, consider the outer shell the essence and the essence only the shell
our lives might be a whole lot easier to understand.

Haruki Murakami

#55. The inner music of the Soul is the real song. It's tunes are self-existing and self-supporting and need no outer aids of hands, feet or tongue and lead to the source from whence they come, the Minstrel divine.

Kirpal Singh

#56. This book is dedicated to every woman who has ever felt self-conscious about her size. Outer beauty comes in all sizes, shapes, heights, ages, and colors. And inner beauty will always shine through, no matter what the packaging.

Raynetta Manees

#57. Outer gavels can't crush you when your inner judge is love.

Curtis Tyrone Jones

#58. If I want to know my light side, my best self, all I have to do is look in the outer world and look for who I love, who turns me on, who excites me and distinguish the qualities I am seeing in them, and in doing that I will find the best expression of myself.

Debbie Ford

Janet Bray Attwood

#59. Your own self is your ultimate teacher. The outer teacher is merely a milestone. It is only your inner teacher that will walk with you to the goal, for he is the goal

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#60. The mind-speech and body remain 'effective', the outer environment is also 'effective' and when the Self (Soul) remains 'un-effective'; that is the ultimate stage!

Dada Bhagwan

#61. Add to that cauldron an ever increasing measure of cheap vodka--a form of self-medication that quelled the inner scream but amplified the outer crazy--and you get a picture of the mother I left behind.

Allen Eskens

#62. In Zen Buddhism, "The Great Cessation" is a term that points to the abandoning of the effort to define one's self by any outer definition and to give up acts of futility. It is to let the world remain a mystery that cannot be captured by science, language, or any invention of the mind

Mike Scheidt

#63. A book is solitude, privacy; it is a way of holding the self apart from the crush of the outer world.

Sven Birkerts

#64. Self-destructive patterns cause as much suffering as outer catastrophes.

Anais Nin

#65. We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

Dalai Lama XIV

#66. It is my experience that if a person practices self discovery with intent, they will be successful. Success is an outer sign that they are channeling energy correctly.

Frederick Lenz

#67. Forgiving is an inward act that establishes outer boundaries; it is an undefeatable triumph of self-compassion that proclaims you are no longer a victim.

Bryant McGill

#68. Prayer may not change our outer circumstances but inwardly it can change everything

Renae A. Sauter