Quotes About Looking Outward

#1. To have a deeper understanding of life one must pause from looking outward and travel inward into the depths of consciousness.

Jiulio Consiglio

#2. The web of marriage is made by propinquity, in the day to day living side by side, looking outward in the same direction. It is woven in space and in time of the substance of life itself.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#3. Service changes people. It refines, purifies, gives a finer perspective, and brings out the best in each one of us. It gets us looking outward instead of inward. Righteous service is the expression of true charity, such as the Savior showed.

Derek A. Cuthbert

#4. Rather than looking outward in an attempt to predict the outcome, you turn inward to your identity. You base the decision on who you are - or who you want to be.

Adam M. Grant

#5. Sometimes things feel hopeless. Not always within my own life - but looking outward, it seems like rough times lie ahead of us. The world seems to be kind of caving in on itself in a lot of ways. But I try to look on the bright side.

Jenny Lewis

#6. Some people want it all and expect it all; always looking outward, so often proclaiming what they deserve, even more saying what they want, and all thinking another should provide it for them. Do they ever bother to be the person they think someone else would love to have?

Donna Lynn Hope

#7. Americans are once again looking outward

Dan Rather

#8. Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#9. We learn this by the precepts that Jesus left. He observed that the people were looking outward, and assured them that the kingdom of God cometh not with outward observation; and for this reason, that it was only to be known in man.

Elias Hicks

#10. Keep growing quietly and seriously throughout your whole development; you cannot disturb it more rudely than by looking outward and expecting from outside replies to questions that only your inmost feeling in your most hushed hour can perhaps answer.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#11. Being a leader, it's the art of trying to find the balance, the right times with each individual and what they need at that moment. It requires looking outward as opposed to looking inside.

Kobe Bryant

#12. To gain an overall understanding of oneself does not require looking outward - it requires the strength of looking inward.

Michelle Cruz-Rosado

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. Every Jewish holiday has a religious significance, a historical significance, and a relevance to the time of year in the natural calendar of the seasons and trees and growing things, as well as a personal significance. So you are always looking backward, outward, inward and forward.

Marge Piercy

#16. I should never have been convicted of anything more serious than running a cemetery without a license.

John Wayne Gacy

#17. Europeans condemned Chinese foot binding, but any society that had invented the corset had a lot to answer for.

Mary Jo Putney

#18. The cunningest dissimulation is when a man pretends to be caught in the traps others set for him; and a man is never so easily over-reached as when he is contriving to over-reach others.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#19. What the artist is always looking for is the mode of existence in which soul and body are one and indivisible: in which the outward is expressive of the inward: in which form reveals.

Oscar Wilde

#20. In the heart, there is no sting greater than watching the struggles of one you love, knowing that only through such strife will that person grow and recognize the potential of his or her existence.

R.A. Salvatore

#21. The best bribe which London offers to-day to the imagination, is, that, in such a vast variety of people and conditions, one can believe there is room for persons of romantic character to exist, and that the poet, the mystic, and the hero may hope to confront their counterparts.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#22. 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

#23. If you erased New York, I hate to say it, if you erased Frankfurt, even London, the world would not have changed.

Nicolas Berggruen

#24. He lost the great big outward thing, the good- looking package, and the real parts endured. They shine through like crazy, the brillian mind and humor, the depth of generosity, the intense blue yes, those beautiful hands.

Anne Lamott

#25. The spiritual process does not look outward to find beauty, but it is a process of looking inwards to see the inner beauty.

Debasish Mridha

#26. As a result, he was actually looking directly at it when the back side suddenly erupted outward in a thundering, ear-pounding explosion! The

Wayne D. Dundee

#27. He has borne with thousands of foul and abominable sins which you have committed against Him, yet even they have not been enough to make Him cease looking upon you. Is it such a great matter, then, for you to avert the eyes of your soul from the outward things and sometimes to look at Him?

Teresa Of Avila

#28. Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.

Fulton J. Sheen

#29. Seeing outward is equivalent to looking backward in time because the telescope's mirror is capturing primeval light ... galaxies that existed before our time.

Richard Preston

#30. Further in, looming somewhere underneath his outward expression, lies a hint of regret and sorrow.
I can see it.
I can feel it.
We're both so lost - looking to be found.

Renee Ericson

#31. The U.K. is outward-looking, trade-oriented, growth-oriented, and we do not have enough of that storyline, that tradition, that culture within the European Union.

Mark Rutte

#32. The secession of the Southern States, individually or in the aggregate, was the certain consequence of Mr. Lincoln's election.

Belle Boyd

#33. People sometimes pay with their lives for saying aloud what they think. In fact, one can even get killed for giving me information. I am not the only one in danger. I have examples that prove it.

Anna Politkovskaya

#34. The major challenge for the United States is whether it can become the first outward-looking, continental, nonimperialist power in history.

Lawrence Summers

#35. Labour's task for government is to build consent for an outward-looking Britain as the best way to advance not just our interests, but also our values at a time of challenge, both at home and abroad.

Douglas Alexander