Outward Quotes

Vision looks outward and becomes aspiration.

A good meditation, even when it is interrupted by occasional nodding, is much more beneficial than many outward religious exercises.

Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.

A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry.

There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.

Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.

It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart outward, until after many years, it defined itself into a jumble of clearings separated by stretches of the unknown, through which the narrowest of paths had been cut.

What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.

And yet you see the weakness of external evidence-and outward miracles; they were not sufficient to make true believers, or to make the Israelites believe that Jesus was their promised Messiah.

For a century longer, Rome still retains its outward form, but the swarming nations are now in full career.

There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture, took place for the first time.

Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success.

We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance.

I have never known a really chic woman whose appearance was not, in large part, an outward reflection of her inner self.

Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.

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.

O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

They've discovered that, where all the other galaxies are moving in one direction, ours is going in another. Now, the Big Bang theory says that we're all moving outward.

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

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

Human improvement is from within outward.

Tear man out of his outward circumstances; and what he then is; that only is he.

Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.

Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.

If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.

A man is hindered and distracted in proportion as he draws outward things to himself.

If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.

In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great harm done by the mere belief; it may be true after all, or I may never have occasion to exhibit it in outward acts.

It is a miracle of harmony, of the adaptation of the free inner life to the outward necessity of things.