#inward

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

#express #feeling #following #gratitude #impulse

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

— Henry Van Dyke

#does #happiness #inward #outward

It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle. ↗

— Rollo May

#courage #easier #freedom #greater #inner

The central tenet of Christianity as it has come down to us is that we are to reach out when our instinct is to pull inward; to give when we want to take; to love when we are inclined to hate; to include when are tempted to exclude. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#christianity #come #down #exclude #give

Facing inward, join hands so as to form a small circle. Then, without moving from their places they sing the opening song, according to previous agreement, in a soft undertone. ↗

— James Mooney

#agreement #circle #facing #form #hands

So this is how you swim inward. So this is how you flow outwards. So this is how you pray. ↗

— Mary Oliver

#how #inward #outwards #pray #swim

Those who have no hope pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom. ↗

— Wilfred Owen

#gloom #hope #inward #old #old age

Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#inward #manifested #may #outward #success

The community of masses of human beings has produced an order of life in regulated channels which connects individuals in a technically functioning organisation, but not inwardly from the historicity of their souls. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

#channels #community #connects #functioning #human

There never was a war that was not inward. ↗

— Marianne Moore

#never #war