Top 64 Turn Inward Quotes
#1. I also believe that introversion is my greatest strength. I have such a strong inner life that I'm never bored and only occasionally lonely. No matter what mayhem is happening around me, I know I can always turn inward.
Susan Cain
#2. How much easier it is to hate, than to turn inward and face our fear.
Paul Vereshack
#3. 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
#4. You turn inward. There's nothing to distract you, so you begin to look at yourself.
Joseph Frank Bianco
#5. Allow regular time for silent reflection. Turn inward and digest what has happened. Let the senses rest and grow still.
John Heider
#6. To be free from ignorance you need knowledge. The mind should turn inward. Silence takes the mind inward and helps you to recognize who you are.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#7. ...Better to armor yourself with the unreal. Better to turn inward, hide in the dark waters among the sea anemones, down deep where the sharks can't see you.
Anthony Marra
#8. Create a safe zone. Every parent quickly learns that every child - and every adult - handles conflict differently. Some push back when criticized, some turn inward, some break down in tears.
Bruce Feiler
#9. When your institution is under threat, you feel you have a lot of hostility, you feel things are slipping away, you have got internal problems, there's a tendency to turn inward and to focus on yourselves.
David Brooks
#10. You're growing up. Maybe that's it," he said softly. "Sometimes I think the world tests us most sharply then, and we turn inward and watch ourselves with horror. But that's not the worst. We think everybody is seeing into us. Then dirt is very dirty and purity is shining white.
John Steinbeck
#11. The clich? that women, more consistently than men, turn inward for sustenance seems to mean, in practice, that women have richly defined the ways in which imagination creates possibility; possibility that society denies.
Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks
#12. O that our hearts were enlarged in love to God, that we might turn inward, to the blessed comforter, that the blessed Jesus said the Father would send.
Elias Hicks
#13. When we see men of worth, we should think of equalling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inward and examine ourselves.
Gustave Courbet
#14. To ask the mind to kill itself is like making the thief the policeman. He will go with you and pretend to catch the thief, but nothing will be gained. So you must turn inward and see where the mind rises from, and then it will cease to exist.
Ramana Maharshi
#15. 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
#16. Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths.
Epictetus
#17. We learned to turn inward to a place where we were able to re-define what was happening to us. In this mental space, we were able to color our experience with childhood reasoning or bury it deeply
Jeanne McElvaney
#18. I would suggest that the next generation stop looking for happiness outside of themselves but instead turn inward.
Gabrielle Bernstein
#19. I fall in love with someone about twice a week, but I'm starting to think that's a common problem with writers, that they have a dangerous excess of love that they give away to near strangers or turn inward on their private little worlds.
Zach VandeZande
#20. Each of us must turn inward and destroy in himself all that he thinks he ought to destroy in others.
Etty Hillesum
#21. In our youths, many of us suspected that being tied down to a partner and family might constrain us. But after 40, even that landscape starts to shift. Many singletons turn inward and start longing for the things so many of us longed to be free of in our 20s.
Sandra Tsing Loh
#22. Find the courage and the strength to turn inward and to ask a simple, soaring question.
What would LOVE do NOW?
Neale Donald Walsch
#23. 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
#24. Was this what the city would look like when knowledge was no longer enough? When the desire to turn inward, surrendering entirely to one's own private world of nonresistance, overwhelmed, like creeping ivy, our desire to know worlds beyond it?
Olivia Sudjic
#25. Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.
Joseph Campbell
#26. Ruth tells me at least once a day that old people, or people getting old, tend to disengage, back away, turn inward, listen only to themselves, and get self-righteous and censorious. And they mustn't. (I mustn't.)
Wallace Stegner
#27. It is the only thing we can do. ... Each of us must turn inward and destroy in himself all that he thinks he ought to destroy in others. And remember that every atom of hate added to this world makes it still more inhospitable. - ETTY HILLESUM29
Matthieu Ricard
#28. Read myths. They teach you that you can turn inward, and you begin to get the message of the symbols. Read other people's myths, not those of your own religion, because you tend to interpret your own religion in terms of facts
but if you read the other ones, you begin to get the message.
Joseph Campbell
#29. The only way to experience true wellbeing is to turn inward. This is what yoga means - not up, not out, but in. The only way out is in.
Sadghuru
#30. For those of us with an inward turn of mind, which is another name for melancholy introspection, the beginning of a new year inevitably leads to thoughts about both the future and the past.
Michael Dirda
#31. Take a few moments every day to sit in silence and turn your full awareness inward to connect with your Spirit. These moments of silence can occur anytime and anyplace. The more you learn to tune in wherever you are, the easier it will become.
Sonia Choquette
#32. By connecting with the present we turn our attention inward, away from all the chaos and activity, and experience our eternal, unbounded nature.
Deepak Chopra
#33. Then the light changed the water, until all about them the woods in the rising wind seemed to grow taller and blow inward together and suddenly turn dark. The rain struck heavily. A huge tail seemed to lash through the air and the river broke in a wound of silver.
Eudora Welty
#34. Yes, there is a Divinity, one from which we must never turn aside for the guidance of our huge inward life and of the share we have as well in the life of all men. It is called the truth.
Henri Barbusse
#35. Pascal meditated upon outer space, but we need only turn our thoughts inward to feel his dread. Inside every one of our skulls lies an organ so vast in its complexity that it might as well be infinite.
Sebastian Seung
#37. All that is necessary to awaken to yourself as the radiant emptiness of spirit is to stop seeking something more or better or different, and to turn your attention inward to the awake silence that you are.
Adyashanti
#38. Suppose you turn your attention inward in search of this 'I'. You may encounter nothing more than an ever changing stream of consciousness, a flow of thoughts and feelings in which there is no real self to be discovered.
Jim Holt
#39. Loneliness could turn a person inward, leave them without a bridge to the outside world.
R. Cooper
#40. To see the moon that cannot be seen,
turn your eyes inward & look at yourself,in silence...
Jalaluddin Rumi
#41. None though as bowed, small-boned, as my own peasant legs, which in their backward sway and inward turn, shaped by years of adherence to hostile terrains, possess a history of staying put.
Philip Schultz
#42. You can never reach to the truth if you don't even look for it, and the bigger dilemma with the truth is, that you don't have to go too far, but simply have to, turn your attention inward.
Roshan Sharma
#43. As with any form of mental self-improvement, you must learn to turn your gaze inward, concentrate on processes that usually run automatically, and try to wrest control of them so that you can apply them more mindfully.
Steven Pinker
#44. 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
#45. The mind is a mill which can incessant turn, 'til its mere operation focus the stress inward and the stones grind themselves to dust.
David Mamet
#46. Turn the mind inward and cease thinking of yourself as the body; thereby you will come to know that the self is ever happy. Neither grief nor misery is experienced in this state.
Ramana Maharshi
#47. Once the process [of conversion] is begun and continues ... you are continually turning inward toward God and away from your own egocentricity ... you have to see this selfish side of yourself in order to turn away from it. I measure God by everything I am not. I begin with that.
Flannery O'Connor
#48. 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
#49. Give thanks every morning and share quiet reflection every night. The important thing, take time to turn off and look inward.
Tony Curl
#50. It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much, but I am my own comedy and tragedy.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#51. Turn your vision inward and the whole world will be full of supreme spirit.
Ramana Maharshi
#52. 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.
Mahatma Gandhi
#53. Instead of looking outside of ourselves and counting potential enemies, fasting summons us to turn our glance inward, and to take the measure of our greatest challenge: the self, the ego, in our own eyes and as others see us.
Tariq Ramadan
#54. 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
#55. I turn my gaze inward. I fix it there and keep it busy. I look inside myself. I continually observe myself.
Michel De Montaigne
#56. 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
#57. Both above and below, without and within, which way so ever thou dost turn thee, everywhere thou shalt find the Cross; and everywhere of necessity thou must hold fast patience, if thou wilt have inward peace, and enjoy an everlasting crown.
Thomas A Kempis
#58. Yoga is an interior penetration leading to integration of being, senses, breath, mind, intelligence, consciousness, and Self. It is definitely an inward journey, evolution through involution, toward the Soul, which in turn desires to emerge and embrace you in its glory.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#59. Our natural tendency is to be distracted - to scan the horizon constantly for predators and prospects. Books made us turn that attention inward, to build higher and higher castles within the quiet kingdoms of our minds. Through that process of reflection and deep thinking, we evolved.
Alena Graedon
#60. Enjoy the fashions, read the good articles, and when you feel threatened, turn your mental gaze inward, but keep your eyes on the road, or you won't know where you are going. Have a practice or discipline that lets you be in touch with your inner self, your soul.
Rebecca Pidgeon
#61. You should stop searching for phrases and chasing after words. Take the backward step and turn the light inward. Your body-mind of itself will drop off and your original face will appear. If you want to attain just this, immediately practice just this.
Dogen
#62. 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
#63. Love helps you to know yourself ... turn your vision inward.
Sathya Sai Baba
#64. 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.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
