Inward Quotes
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I could not answer the ceaseless inward question-why I thus suffered; now, at the distance of-I will not say how many years, I see it clearly.
Charlotte Bronte
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Damn everything but the circus! ...damn everything that is grim, dull, motionless, unrisking, inward turning, damn everything that won't get into the circle, that won't enjoy. That won't throw it's heart into the tension, surprise, fear and delight of the circus, the round world, the full existence.
e. e. cummings
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That inward eye/ Which is the bliss of solitude.
William Wordsworth
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Black Power, in short, is an attitude, an inward affirmation of the essential worth of blackness. It means that the black man will not be poisoned by the stereotypes that others have of him, but will affirm from the depth of his soul : "Get used to me, I am not getting used to anyone." 16 And "if the white man challenges my humanity, I will impose my whole weight as a man on his life and show him that I am not that `sho good eatin' that he persists in imagining.
James Hal Cone
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I think there's a danger, for me at least, in retreating and going inward and depression. I have to stay diligent against that tendency.
Conor Oberst
Bright Eyes
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Just try to keep the heart turned outward, as well as having moments inward.
Kimbra Lee Johnson
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There is no form of conviction more intimate and irresistible than that which arises from the inward teaching of the Spirit.
Charles Hodge
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I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.
Billie Joe Armstrong
Green Day
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As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
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And a secret inward voice in my head was saying (in a strange breathy voice...) Yes, yessss, I will pop round to The Blind Pig. I will 'pop' round because guess who lives at the Blind Pig? It is not a blind pig, it is Alex.
Louise Rennison
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A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith's usual result.
William James
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We do the best we can," she said softly, looking inward. "And punish ourselves for it. I've tried to make my choices with the idea that I've made those choices for the greatest good. Sometimes someone suffers in the process, but I made the decision for the right reason. That should count for something, shouldn't it?
Tami Hoag
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When we want to know God's will, there are three things which always concur: the inward impulse, the Word of God and the trend of circumstances. Never act until these three things agree.
F. B. Meyer
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When someone beats a rug with a stick, he is not beating the rug – his aim is to get rid of the dust. Your inward is full of dust from the veil of ‘I’-ness, and that dust will not leave all at once. With every cruelty and every blow, it departs little by little from the heart’s face, sometimes in sleep and sometimes in wakefulness.
Rumi
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Every character has an inward spring; let Christ be that spring. Every action has a keynote; let Christ be that note, to which your whole life is attuned.
William Henry Drummond
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Let me be one of the upward and outward lookers, not one of the downward and inward lookers.
Alfred Edersheim
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The way you understand and investigate time is by moving inward, into metabolism. The human body is a knot in time.
Terence McKenna
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Ever since I was first read to, then started reading to myself, there has never been a line read that I didn't hear. As my eyes followed the sentence, a voice was saying it silently to me. It isn't my mother's voice, or the voice of any person I can identify, certainly not my own. It is human, but inward, and it is inwardly that I listen to it. It is to me the voice of the story or the poem itself.
Eudora Welty
