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Oh, my child, can you not see? You must let go of yourself. For if a seed wishes to live, it must sacrifice itself and grow outward, not inward. — Seth Adam Smith

He sat watching what went forward with the quiet outward glance of healthy old age. — George Eliot

And all goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, / and to die is different from that anyone supposed, and luckier. — Jeffrey Eugenides

Americans are once again looking outward — Dan Rather

But he who loveliness within Hath found, all outward loathes, For he who color loves, and skin, Loves but their oldest clothes. — John Donne

It was your inner spirit and not your outward appearance that mattered, — Jeannette Walls

The lines and verses are only the outward garments of the poem and are no more really it than your ruffles and flounces are YOU, — L.M. Montgomery

If you're trying to connect to people with music - it's more of an outward process and a lot of times musicians can be very inward. — Dave Grohl

It's easier in an urban world to cast the blame outward. So I've learned a lot about my own process in that way. — Dani Shapiro

Much of the outward business of kingship came naturally. — Dan Jones

Goodness is richer than greatness. It consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

The farther the outward journey takes you, the deeper the inward journey must be. — Henri Nouwen

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

We have thought that because children are young they are silly. We have forgotten the blind stirrings, the reaching outward of our own youth. — Mabel Robinson

Our creations are the outward expressions of our inner truths. — Bryant McGill

Opinion's but a fool, that makes us scan the outward habit by the inward man. — William Shakespeare

No outward change need trouble him who is inwardly serene. — Hosea Ballou

Poetry being ... when we look from the center outward. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love? — John Donne

The secret to teamwork is an outward mindset. — Steve Young

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

God values Christian character, which shines in positive, outward conduct. Fashion your heart after Jesus. — Elizabeth George

The two foundations; one inward, the other outward; grace, miracles; both supernatural. — Blaise Pascal

Seeing with the eyes of Christ, I can give to others much more than their outward necessities; I can give them the look of love which they crave. — Pope Benedict XVI

This is the curse of superficial religion: the constant attempt to do outward things apart from inward transformation. — David Platt

The pictures do not lie, but neither do they tell the whole story. They are merely a record of time passing, the outward evidence. — Paul Auster

God begins molding a mother after His own heart on the inside
in the inner woman and her heart
and then works outward. — Elizabeth George

You are meant to understand the nature of your inner self, and to manifest it outward. — Seth

Dress gives one the outward sign from which people in general can, and often do, judge upon the inward state of mind and feelings. — Mae West

We belittle God when we go through the outward motions of worship and take no pleasure in His person. — John Piper

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

If we want to change our world, we do not begin by rectifying the outward. Instead, we must change the condition of our inward. — Hamza Yusuf

It is not your outward appearance that you should beautify, but your soul, adorning it with good works. — Clement Of Alexandria

Trust not to outward show.
[Lat., Fronti nulla fides.] — Juvenal

Outward change comes after we change from within — Bob Proctor

The world more often rewards outward signs of merit than merit itself. — La Rochefoucaul

God lives and works in history. The outward mythology changes, the inward truth remains the same. — Iris Murdoch

This attitude is basic human nature. We'd rather look outward and blame others for ills that befall us than point the finger at ourselves. — Amish Tripathi

Tyranny may creep in under the outward forms of traditional law. — Joseph Sobran

Life, in all ranks and situations, is an outward occupation, an actual and active work. — Wilhelm Von Humboldt

Tattoos to me are the outward symbol of the inward change within my soul. — Nicolas Cage

I knew I had looked into the eyes of a lost soul, Austin, the man's outward form remained, but all hell was within it. — Arthur Machen

It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual. — Oswald Chambers

The fruit of the Spirit is the outward evidence of the inward reality of a heart "abiding" in Christ. — Richard J. Foster

Our minds hurtled outward in all directions. We became absurdly creative, Homo artifactus, intolerant of bare cave walls and naked clay pots. — Natalie Angier

Boasting is the outward form of the inner condition of pride. — John Piper

After a few months without writing, months I've lived turned outward ... I fear going deaf, not being able to hear the silence. — Isabel Allende

Oh what man may hide inside, tho angel on the outward side. — William Shakespeare

A relentless focus on the outward markers of success can lead to complacency. It can make you lazy. — Barack Obama

To be a manager requires more than a title, a big office, and other outward symbols of rank. It requires competence and performance of a high order. — Peter Drucker

Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience. — Ambrose Bierce

If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us ... — John Bunyan

A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live. — Lao-Tzu

The doorway to success swings outward not inward. — Robin S. Sharma

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

Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings. — Sri Aurobindo

Beloved Pan and all ye other gods who haunt this place, give me beauty in the inward soul, and may the outward and the inner man be at one. — Socrates

The Window to the Universe Opens Inward and Outward. — Daniel Lee Edstrom

She always had the outward appearance of indifference, which I suspect is the real secret to longevity. That or a genuine desire to die. — Steve Toltz

Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are. — Henry Van Dyke

There is not a single outward mark of courtesy that does not have a deep moral basis. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

In my short experience of human life, the outward obstacles, if there were any such, have not been living men, but the institutions of the dead. — Henry David Thoreau

I fear yet this iron yoke of outward conformity hath left a slavish print upon our necks: the ghost of a linnen decency yet haunts us. — John Milton

Through certain humors or passions, and from temper merely, a man may be completely miserable, let his outward circumstances be ever so fortunate. — Anthony Ashley Cooper

Her paintings formed a visual diary, an outward manifestation of her inward dialog that was, all too often, a scream of pain. — Gerry Souter

Whatever draws the mind outward is unspiritual and whatever draws the mind inward is spiritual — Ramana Maharshi

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

Thus content with an inner sphere which they inhabit together, it is not immediately that the outward world can obtrude itself upon their notice. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

Prayer is inward communication with yourself; action is outward conversation with God. — Steve Maraboli

Happiness is a choice. Happiness does not depend on outward conditions but on inward decisions. — Cameron C. Taylor

What matters is not your outward appearance ... but your inner disposition. Cultivate inner beauty, the gentle gracious kind that God delights in. — Saint Peter

Happiness is a state of mind, and depends very little on outward circumstances. — Helen Keller

Our names are an integral part of the faces we show to the world. If we're judged first on outward appearances, we're assessed next on our names. — Sharon Bolton

Prayer continues in the desire of the heart, though the understanding be employed on outward things. — John Wesley

The door to happiness opens outward. — Soren Kierkegaard

True leaders don't look at just the outward appearances in the selection of team members, they look at one's core values and heart. — Farshad Asl

The outward man is the swinging door; the inner man is the still hinge. — Meister Eckhart

Glance backward, look heavenward, reach outward, press onward — Thomas S. Monson

every substance contains undeveloped resources and potentialities, and can be brought outward and forward into perfection. — H. Stanley Redgrove

Generosity is the most natural outward expression of an inner attitude of compassion and loving-kindness. — Dalai Lama XIV

Wind slapped them against the cliff face, then yanked them outward in a biting swirl of airborne sand. — Steven Erikson

Worship is an inward feeling and outward action that reflects the worth of God. — John Piper

Outward success alienates a man from himself. — James T. Hill

The masks. that men have as faces, the outward shells they hold up for others to see while their minds shift in hidden directions. Discard 2 — Lois Charles

The Charkha is an outward symbol of truth and nonviolence. — Mahatma Gandhi

Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one. — Socrates

Love adorns itself; it seeks to prove inward joy by outward beauty — Rabindranath Tagore

Nature endlessly in every direction
inward to your body and outward into space. — Jack Kerouac

Errors of taste are very often the outward sign of a deep fault of sensibility. — Jonathan Miller

A writer's self-consciousness, for which he is much scorned, is really a mode of interestedness, that inevitably turns outward. — John Updike

To gain an overall understanding of oneself does not require looking outward - it requires the strength of looking inward. — Michelle Cruz-Rosado

All our attachments are outward oriented and hence this illusion. — Osho

Appreciation is the purest,strongest form of love. It is the outward-bound kind of love that asks for nothing and gives everything. — Kelly Corrigan

Clinging to one's outward appearance interferes with living. — Kobo Abe

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

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there. — Robert M. Pirsig

God is not interested in our public displays of piety. He's not interested in religion in terms of the outward show. He's interested in godliness. — R.C. Sproul

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

Energy is the only life and is from the Body and Reason is the bound or outward circumference of Energy. — William Blake

May the inward and outward man be as one. — Socrates