Outward Expression Quotes

Not in our make-up, to be sure - not in the pose which is preceded by the tantaras of a trumpet - do the essential traits in our character first reveal themselves. But truly in the little things the real self is exteriorised.

Outward appearance is nothing to Him if it is not an expression of the inner.

I think it's all about how you feel - if you feel sexy inside, then it will show on the outside.

The body always expresses the spirit whose envelope it is. And for him who can see, the nude offers the richest meaning.

Outer beauty is inner beauty made visible, and it manifests itself in the light that flows in our eyes.

Charity can be the outward expression of faith and hope.

I don't smile as much as I should, even though I smile inside a lot.

Maybe 90 percent of the time it looks like I'm not having a good time.

Too many Christians live their Christian lives inside their heads; it never gets out through hands and feet and lips.

...[P]eople who shout joy from the rooftops are often the saddest of all... (p.24)

Damn everything but the circus! ...damn everything that is grim, dull, motionless, unrisking, inward turning, damn everything that won't get into the circle, that won't enjoy. That won't throw it's heart into the tension, surprise, fear and delight of the circus, the round world, the full existence.

Being beautiful isn't everything... Sometimes it's interesting to show how you feel on the inside on the outside, just through expressing yourself.

Flashy characters are more entertaining to people because you get it. You don't have to work to get someone who says what they mean and says what they think. They're out there. It's harder to play a quiet character because everything happens in their stream of consciousness.

The soul is known by it's acts.

Manner is personality—the outward manifestation of one’s innate character and attitude toward life.

Our creations are the outward expressions of our inner truths.

Those that don't got it, can't show it. Those that got it, can't hide it.

If our virtues did not go forth of us, it were all alike as if we had them not.

If you feel good, you stand up a bit straighter.

Individual consciences are fine but individual consciences have to be made manifest.

Grace has a grand laughter in it.

I don't care if you get up in the morning and don't wash, don't put any make-up on, don't do your hair, even, but you have to have clothes if you want to look different.

You're not going to be dreary on the inside if you're not dreary on the outside.

The eyelids confess, and reject, and refuse to reject. They have expressed all things ever since man was man. And they express so much by seeming to hide or to reveal that which indeed expresses nothing. For there is no message from the eye. It has direction, it moves, in the service of the sense of sight; it receives the messages of the world. But expression is outward, and the eye has it not. There are no windows of the soul, there are only curtains.

What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love.