A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.
No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.
The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich.
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.
Some ghosts or felt presences may simply be the essence of another living person projected outward while sleeping.
Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest and admiration.
O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!
All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
Appearances can be deceiving.
When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.
They understand death, they stand there in the church under the skies that have a beginningless past and go into the never-ending future, waiting themselves for death, at the foot of the dead, in a holy temple. - I get a vision of myself and the two ...
Such fatigues and hardship as these serve to wean me more from the earth; and, I trust, will make heaven the sweeter. Formerly, when I was thus exposed to cold, rain, etc., I was ready to please myself with the thoughts of enjoying a comfortable hous...
You need to understand your potentials to transform it. look in to Yourself, upwards to God then outwards to your environ
He sat watching what went forward with the quiet outward glance of healthy old age.
Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Don’t focus on outward means of satisfaction if you want to be happy.
Our creations are the outward expressions of our inner truths.
Energy is the only life and is from the Body and Reason is the bound or outward circumference of Energy.
The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death.
God lives and works in history. The outward mythology changes, the inward truth remains the same.
