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The whole last season was the idea that the revolution failed and it is time to deal with what you can control, which is yourself, this turning inward, he (Draper) stripped it all away, that was the idea.

Matthew Weiner

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

This is really an acid test on whether members of Congress believe in looking outward or looking inward.

Bill Lane

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We need to have the strongest military on the face of the planet and everyone needs to know it, america needs to face outward into the world, and I don't think it is helpful to our interests or to the stability of the world when people focus on turning inward.

Carly Fiorina

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Psychology can explain why somebody would turn rage inward on themselves about the fact that maybe they weren't going to keep doing their job and they're upset about that and so they're suicidal, but there is no mental illness that explains why somebody then feels entitled to also take that rage and turn it outward on 149 other people who had nothing to do with the person's problems.

Andreas Lubitz

Found on CNN
9 years ago

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

Socrates

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10 years ago

Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.

Matthew Arnold

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10 years ago

Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.

Henry van Dyke

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10 years ago

?Tis not for gain, for fame, from fear That righteous men injustice shun, And virtuous men hold virtue dear: An inward voice they seem to hear, Which tells them duty must be done.

Mahabharata

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12 years ago

If our inward griefs were written on our brows, how many who are envied now would be pitied. It would seem that they had their deadliest foe in their own breast, and their whole happiness would be reduced to mere seeming.

Metastasio

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12 years ago

Outward perfection without inward goodness sets but the blacker dye on the mind?s deformity.

R Chamberlain

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12 years ago

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.

Marcus Aurelius

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13 years ago

The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within.

Mahatma Gandhi

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13 years ago

Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they mightily fasten imparting grace.

Plato

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13 years ago

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Aristotle

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13 years ago

Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.

Seneca

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13 years ago

...all life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference betwixt those born of real things and those born of inward dreamings, and (there is) no cause to value one above the other."

H.P. Lovecraft

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13 years ago

Let tears flow of their own accord their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.

Seneca

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14 years ago

Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion, or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.

Cicero

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14 years ago

There is no finer sensations in life that which comes with victory over one's self... Go forward to a goal of inward achievement, brushing aside all your old internal enemies as you advance.

Vash Young

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14 years ago

Vision looks inward and becomes duty.Vision looks outward and becomes aspiration.Vision looks upward and becomes faith.

Stephen S. Wise

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14 years ago

Now the real beginnings of the 'freedom' which we have discussed for many years--and a heady freedom it is, coming after so many years of reaching outward for it--to finally discover all I had to do was reach inward, and it was there waiting all the time for me

Alisa Wells

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14 years ago

The direction of a man's thought is always the decisive factor in his personality. His whole outer life will be determined by the inward inclination of his mind.

Erich Sauer

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14 years ago

The longest journey is the journey inward.

Dag Hammarskjld

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14 years ago

Happiness is inward and not outward and so it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.

Henry Van Dyke

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14 years ago

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