We carry with us the wonders we seek without us.
~ Sir Thomas Browne
As far as beauty is concerned in order to be confident we must accept that the way we look and feel is our own responsibility.
~ Sophia Loren
Ruin and recovery are both from within.
~ Epictetus
Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself and know that everything in life has a purpose.
~ Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
If you can't change your fate change your attitude.
~ Amy Tan
He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without.
~ Johann Von Goethe
What pulls the strings is the force hidden within there lies ... the real man.
~ Marcus Aurelius
The foundations which we would dig about and find are within us like the Kingdom of Heaven rather than without.
~ Samuel Butler
No external advantages can supply self-reliance. The force of one's being ... must come from within.
~ R. W. Clark
Every time I start a picture ... I feel the same fear the same self-doubts ... and I have only one source on which I can draw because it comes from within me.
~ Federico Fellini
There is no man so low down that the cure for his condition does not lie strictly within himself.
~ Thomas L. Masson
It is what you are inside that matters. You yourself are your only real capital.
~ Vladimir Zworykin
Look well into thyself there is a source which will always spring up if thou wilt always search there.
I've never met a person I don't care what his condition in whom I could not see possibilities. I don't care how much a man may consider himself a failure I believe in him for he can change the thing that is wrong in his life anytime he is prepared and ready to do it. Whenever he develops the desire he can take away from his life the thing that is defeating it. The capacity for reformation and change lies within.
~ Preston Bradley
You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
~ Joseph Joubert
God why do I storm heaven for answers that are already in my heart? Every grace I need has already been given me. Oh lead me to the Beyond within.
~ Macrina Wiederkehr
The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
~ Robert M. Pirsig
There ain't nothing from the outside can lick any of us.
~ Margaret Mitchell
Man must be arched and buttressed from within else the temple wavers to dust.
There is no reality except the one contained within us.
~ Hermann Hesse
Religious faith indeed relates to that which is above us but it must arise from that which is within us.
~ Josiah Royce
God creates the animals man creates himself.
~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Let women be provided with living strength of their own.
~ Simone De Beauvoir
Man cannot remake himself without suffering for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
~ Dr. Alexis Carrel
Every man is his own ancestor and every man his own heir. He devises his own future and he inherits his own past.
~ H. F. Hedge
In the long run we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Our awesome responsibility to ourselves to our children and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
~ Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Up to a point a man's life is shaped by environment heredity and movements and changes in the world about him then there comes a time when it lies within his grasp to shape the clay of his life into the sort of thing he wishes to be. ... Everyone has it within his power to say this I am today that I shall be tomorrow.
~ Louis L'amour
We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.
~ Carlos Castañeda
I woman give birth: and this time to myself.
~ Alma Villanueva
Exude happiness and you will feel it back a thousand times.
~ Joan Lunden
What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.
~ Mignon Mclaughlin
You are the product of your own brainstorm.
~ Rosemary Konner Steinbaum
I long to put the experience of fifty years at once into your young lives to give you at once the key to that treasure chamber every gem of which has cost me tears and struggles and prayers but you must work for these inward treasures yourselves.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that's your own self.
~ Aldous Huxley
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
~ Anne Frank
You need to claim the events in your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done which may take some time you are fierce with reality.
~ Florida Scott-Maxwell
I would not sit waiting for some value tomorrow nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifetime. ... I would make something happen.
I truly believe that women of my generation can bring a new cleansing element to American public life.
~ Georgie Anne Geyer
