Quotes about External

External nature is only internal nature writ large. Votes: 4

External silence helps to achieve inner silence. Votes: 3

External pressure seems to produce internal unity. Votes: 3

External beauty is a bizarre thing to me. Votes: 3

External silence can be the doorway to inner silence. Votes: 3

External instruments are only extensions of the biological instrument. Votes: 3

External motion we call action; internal motion is human thought. Votes: 3

External circumstances will not change until internal belief systems change. Votes: 3

External reality is sort of an affectation of the nervous system. Votes: 3

External practices have value only as helps to develop internal purity. Votes: 3

External circumstances do not create feeling states. Feeling states create external circumstances. Votes: 3

External conditions can, to a certain extent, reduce, but never cancel individual repsonsibility. Votes: 3

External actions are evidence of internal beliefs. Our deeds are what show our creeds. Votes: 3

External beauty is certainly cool to admire, but when worshipped - it eclipses internal shine. Votes: 3

External freedom has probably never existed, but neither have I ever known anyone who knew inner freedom. Votes: 3

Your success and happiness lie within you. External conditions are the accidents of life, its outer trappings. Votes: 3

External fears cease of their own accord when once we have conquered these traitors within the camp. Votes: 3

External things are not the problem. It's your assessment of them. Which you can erase right now. Votes: 3

External circumstances can contribute to one's happiness and well-being, but ultimately happiness and suffering depend on the mind. Votes: 3

External images act on me, transmit movement to me, and I return movement: how could images be in my consciousness since I am myself image, that is, movement? Votes: 3

All that matters is the pressure you put on yourself. External pressures cause people to choke. While you can't control what happens to you, you can control how you react. Votes: 3

Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond. Votes: 2

Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude. Votes: 2

There is something sublime about its aloofness from and its indifference to its external environment. Votes: 2

Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities. Votes: 2

Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart. Votes: 2

Every friendship goes through ups and downs. Dysfunctional patterns set in; external situations cause internal friction; you grow apart and then bounce back together. Votes: 2

Weight, force and casual impulse, together with resistance, are the four external powers in which all the visible actions of mortals have their being and their end. Votes: 2

The Union, which can alone insure internal peace, and external security to each State, Must and Shall be Preserved, cost what it may in time, treasure, and blood. Votes: 2

That human behavior is more influenced by things outside of us than inside. The 'situation' is the external environment. The inner environment is genes, moral history, religious training. Votes: 2

I think every person should have some faith inside him, in his heart. What matters is not an external display of this faith, but the inner state of the soul. Votes: 2

In North America, the greatest threat to the Jewish people is not the external force of antisemitism, but the internal forces of apathy, inertia and ignorance of our own heritage. Votes: 2

Every living being is an engine geared to the wheelwork of the universe. Though seemingly affected only by its immediate surrounding, the sphere of external influence extends to infinite distance. Votes: 2

It follows from what we have just said, that the natural changes of monads come from an internal principle, since an external cause would be unable to influence their inner being. Votes: 2

We've had a major shift in what truth is and where it comes from. We've gone from being God-centered to self-centered, from being objective to being subjective, and from being internal to external. Votes: 2

Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock. Votes: 2

Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace. Votes: 2

Felicity, the companion of content, is rather found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of external things; and I firmly believe it requires but a little philosophy to make a man happy in whatever state he is. Votes: 2

Every man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion. The external is that complex of devices, techniques, mechanisms, and instrumentalities by means of which we live. Votes: 2

The human being is a self-propelled automaton entirely under the control of external influences. Willful and predetermined though they appear, his actions are governed not from within, but from without. He is like a float tossed about by the waves of a turbulent sea. Votes: 2

If you look at great human civilizations, from the Roman Empire to the Soviet Union, you will see that most do not fail simply due to external threats but because of internal weakness, corruption, or a failure to manifest the values and ideals they espouse. Votes: 2

It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are. Votes: 2

All things are in a state of vibration. Vibrations from objects in our surroundings are constantly impinging upon us and carry to our senses a cognition of the external world. The vibrations in the ether act upon our eyes so that we see, and vibrations in the air transmit sounds to the ear. Votes: 2

I have lived by one crucial principle since I was 24 years old. I don't blame or complain about things like the economy, the government, taxes, employees, gas prices, or any of the external things that I don't have control over. The only thing I have control over is my response to these things. Votes: 2

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Votes: 2

I try to be a good daughter, as I believe in karma and feel that how you are with your parents is directly proportionate to what you receive in your life. I am a big oneness follower, and our gurus have told us that if you want to achieve external happiness, you need to be happy internally. And your inner circle is your family. Votes: 2

Internal victories precede external victories. Votes: 0

Television leaves no external scars. Votes: 0

Internal conviction drives external action. Votes: 0

The external rest comes unexpected. Votes: 0

Thernos 1.0 is an external point-of-care BlackBerry. Votes: 0

We gain internal freedom through external actions. Votes: 0

Don't instantly throw yourself into external demands. Votes: 0

Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions. Votes: 0

Our external physical reality is a mathematical structure. Votes: 0

Real happiness is not dependent on external things. Votes: 0

Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech. Votes: 0

Honour is external conscience, and conscience is inward honour. Votes: 0

Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity. Votes: 0

Hope is a psychological mechanism unaffected by external realities. Votes: 0

Nothing external to you has any power over you. Votes: 0

People place such importance on the external. It's disgusting. Votes: 0

Life is in ourselves and not in the external. Votes: 0

I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances. Votes: 0

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment. Votes: 0

ONE MUST BE COMPASSIONATE TO ONE'S SELF BEFORE EXTERNAL COMPASSION. Votes: 0

Master your responses to external events--don't attempt to control them. Votes: 0

The mature person perceives the fruitlessness of rigid, external methodologies. Votes: 0

We do not depend upon any external help in meditation. Votes: 0

Peace can be found within, no matter the external circumstances. Votes: 0

My dream for Israel is peace, external and internal peace. Votes: 0

You have, like the external world, your own phenomena inside. Votes: 0

The law of God cannot be fulfilled by external obedience. Votes: 0

There is no external solution to the problem of insecurity. Votes: 0

You won't acquire external Haters until you've conquered the internal Hater. Votes: 0

Discussing external migration issues is impossible without discussing internal migration issues Votes: 0

Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations. Votes: 0

The external world is committed to helping Georgia settle its problems. Votes: 0

Seek not the good in external things;seek it in yourselves. Votes: 0

I don't think Spain will need any kind of external support. Votes: 0

Grow internally first. Strengthen your bottom line first before considering external growth. Votes: 0

Waking consciousness is dreaming – but dreaming constrained by external reality Votes: 0

Once you transcend the external differences, anything can be merged with anything. Votes: 0

Guilt addresses an external action while shame attacks the internal character!" EL Votes: 0

Happiness mainly comes from our own attitude, rather than from external factors. Votes: 0

If one abuses or neglects internal powers, external forces will act accordingly. Votes: 0

Very broadly, literature concerns itself with the internal, cinema with the external. Votes: 0

Grace is within you. If it were external, it would be useless. Votes: 0

Yoga is for internal cleansing, not external exercising. Yoga means true self-knowledge. Votes: 0

Men need some kind of external activity, because they are inactive within. Votes: 0

Our own evil inclinations are far more dangerous than any external enemies. Votes: 0

True peace is a quality you carry within yourself, regardless of external circumstances. Votes: 0

Artistic inevitability lies in the complete adequacy of the external to the emotion. Votes: 0

What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things, Votes: 0

A church that focuses on the external has lost its passion for souls. Votes: 0

Happiness, as is evident, depends partly upon external circumstances and partly upon oneself. Votes: 0

Liberty is the freedom of individual to express, without external hindrances, his personality. Votes: 0

Sometimes, it is an external force that makes you realize your real potential. Votes: 0

Your success in life depends on you more than any other external factors. Votes: 0

True happiness is not related to external conditions but comes from the unconditioned. Votes: 0

Self-doubt does more to sabotage individual potential than all external limitations put together. Votes: 0

The insane do not share the normal prejudice in favor of external reality. Votes: 0

Your external appearance can be great, but your stunning beauty beams from within. Votes: 0

All the defects are obstacles that anchors the mind to the external senses. Votes: 0

Ritual is to the internal sciences what experiment is to the external sciences. Votes: 0

Happiness is determined more by one's state of mind than by external events. Votes: 0

Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes. Votes: 0

It is inconceivable that people are motivated solely or even mainly by external incentives. Votes: 0

Nothing, except what flows from the heart, can render even external manners truly pleasing. Votes: 0

From the perspective of mere representation, the external world always remains only a phenomenon. Votes: 0

The infantile cowardice of our time which demands an external pattern, a nonhuman authority. Votes: 0

Everybody acts not only under external compulsion but also in accordance with inner necessity. Votes: 0

Happiness depends on our thoughts and actions, not on wealth, splendor, or external conditions. Votes: 0

Moderates tend more than ideologues to be other-directed types who respond to external pressure. Votes: 0

The idea is that that there is no such thing as an external enemy. Votes: 0

When you reach the point of becoming independent of external events, you're truly free. Votes: 0

Our health is our sound relation to external objects; our sympathy with external being. Votes: 0

The End is included among goods of the soul, and not among external goods. Votes: 0

Beliefs are the determinants of what one experiences. There are no external 'causes.' Votes: 0

Be the same still mountain self and mountain peace no matter what the external conditions. Votes: 0

Peace is more of an internal settlement rather than what is visible on the external. Votes: 0

I'm not someone who is driven by big external stories. I like big emotional stories. Votes: 0

You can redefine your external world by an internal experience with the love of God. Votes: 0

In our external world we create and attract with our beliefs, thoughts, emotions and perceptions. Votes: 0

You can have all the external experiences but you have to be the love first. Votes: 0

If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry. Votes: 0

Leaders unify nations by creating an external enemy, and nations make that dream comes true. Votes: 0

By drop out, I mean to detach yourself from involvement in secular, external social games. Votes: 0

A true repentance shuns the evil itself, more than the external suffering or the shame. Votes: 0

Production is not something physical, material, and external; it is a spiritual and intellectual phenomenon. Votes: 0

Linguistic sounds, considered as external, physical phenomena have two aspects, the motor and the acoustic. Votes: 0

One is not struck by the truth until prompted quite accidentally by some external event. Votes: 0

True happiness is when the love that is within us finds expression in external activities. Votes: 0

Every issue of life is determined not by external conditions and things, but by one's consciousness. Votes: 0

I think the thing that people do wrong today is that they pray for external validation. Votes: 0

Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people. Votes: 0

Poetry, from describing external events objectively, is becoming subjectified into a poetry of personal conscious expression. Votes: 0

Happiness does not come about only due to external circumstances; it mainly derives from inner attitudes. Votes: 0

That external struggle mirrors the struggle of this life force of energy that [princess Margaret] was. Votes: 0

Perception is less of a recording system and more of a protection system against external stimuli. Votes: 0

This is a technology where without external input, you create a chemistry of blissfulness within you. Votes: 0

Human beings judge one another by their external actions. God judges them by their moral choices. Votes: 0

All see, and most admire, the glare which hovers round the external happiness of elevated office. Votes: 0

An abundance mentality springs from internal security, not from external rankings, comparisons, opinions, possessions, or associations. Votes: 0

To abandon the principle of simplicity would be to abandon all reasoning about the external world Votes: 0

He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions. Votes: 0

The power for authentic leadership is found not in external arrangements, but in the human heart. Votes: 0

Courage isn't inside; it's external. It comes from someone else telling you they believe in you. Votes: 0

There will be calmness, tranquility, when one is free from external objects and is not perturbed. Votes: 0

I appreciate all of the unexpected places, internal and external, that my writing has taken me. Votes: 0

We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them. Votes: 0

The more we nourish our internal world, the more powerful we grow in the external world. Votes: 0

The drive for progress doesn't wait for the external world to say "It's time to change." Votes: 0

I can take care of myself! But the "external barriers", my opponents, do indeed concern me. Votes: 0

The possession of great powers no doubt carries with it a comtempt for mere external show Votes: 0

Worship does not consist in prayers and in external devotion, but in a life of kindness. Votes: 0

Investing a lot of time and money in external beauty and caring little about internal beauty. Votes: 0

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us. Votes: 0

And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them. Votes: 0

Happiness doesn't come from external circumstances. It comes from the inside-regardless of what is happening around us. Votes: 0

Positive thinking is about remembering that our internal world creates and is more powerful than the external. Votes: 0

No matter the level of opposition from external forces, whoever God has elevated, will definitely stay elevated. Votes: 0

It [Catholicism] supplies a multitude of external forms in which the spiritual may be clothed and manifested. Votes: 0

Non-democratic regimes always need to mobilize their people against external enemies in order to maintain internal stability. Votes: 0

Difference between motivation and inspiration - Motivation is external and short lived. Inspiration is internal and lifelong Votes: 0

Keep your attention internal, not external, not worrying about what others see, but what the Self sees. Votes: 0

We need a different conception of happiness, more enduring and more genuine, not dependent on external circumstances. Votes: 0

Forms have changed through the centuries in obedience to the external world to which all forms belong. Votes: 0

Belief in an external world independent of the perceiving subject is the basis of all natural science. Votes: 0

Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can't separate them. Votes: 0

Just be indipendent of the external world, so you don't have to fear for what's in it. Votes: 0

Life is not so much defined by the external situation as it is by the internal one. Votes: 0

The person must give himself an external sphere of freedom in order to have being as Idea. Votes: 0

Unraveling external selves and coming home to our real identity is the true meaning of soul work. Votes: 0

It was good, really, that this external world still existed, if only as a place of refuge. Votes: 0

The external is in no way the essence of religion, but the external often proclaims the internal. Votes: 0

It is not necessary to meet your guru on the physical plane. The guru is not external. Votes: 0

Persistent, internal inklings matched by external confirmation is often the way God directs believers into His will. Votes: 0

The person who doubts there is an external world does not need proof: he needs a cure. Votes: 0

Fiction shows the external effects of internal conditions. Be aware of the tension between internal and external movement. Votes: 0

Happiness can only be found within, by breaking attachments to external things and cultivating an attitude of acceptance. Votes: 0

Without a heart transformed by the grace of Christ, we just continue to manage external and internal darkness. Votes: 0

Amusement is a way of boredom-avoidance through external stimulation that fails to exercise our minds. It's mere diversion. Votes: 0

By ecology we understand the total science of the connections of the organism to the surrounding external world. Votes: 0

Irrespective of any external, regulatory force, our capacity for feeling is in itself an insatiable and bottomless abyss. Votes: 0

Moral autonomy appears when the mind regards as necessary an ideal that is independent of all external pressures. Votes: 0

Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism. Votes: 0

The faith in Christ that saves us from our sins involves an internal transformation that has external implications. Votes: 0

Don't imagine that your perfection lies in accumulating or possessing external things. Your affection is inside of you. Votes: 0

Those who would wage war, should first eliminate all domestic enemies before proceeding to attack the external foe. Votes: 0

Reactive people... are often affected by their physical environment. They find external sources to blame for their behavior. Votes: 0

This, then, is the Anarchistic definition of government: the subjection of the non-invasive individual to an external will... Votes: 0

In moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy but always against one's own body. Votes: 0

True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods. Votes: 0

Most minds are the slaves of external circumstances, and conform to any hand that undertakes to mould them. Votes: 0

A war must be avoided at all costs. Russia is against any type of use of external force. Votes: 0

If we think about it, all great discoveries and paradigm shifts are always stimulated by an external event. Votes: 0

We live in a world of thought, but we think we live in a world of external experience. Votes: 0

Life is the external text, the burning bush by the edge of the path from which God speaks. Votes: 0

A city is not adorned by external things, but by the virtue of those who dwell in it. Votes: 0

Becoming internally empowered shifts a person's center of gravity from external to internal- a mark of spiritual passage. Votes: 0

We're trying to fill something internal with something external. We're trying to fill something real with something illusionary. Votes: 0

My definition of confidence is how you feel about yourself, and not letting the external world define you. Votes: 0

I existed before I received this body. I am the external and fundamental life energy of the universe. Votes: 0

Empowerment is the inner joy of knowing that external force isn't necessary to be at harmony with oneself. Votes: 0

I do my very best to not allow external trends or zeitgeists to feed into what I'm producing. Votes: 0

The external forces conceal from the eyes the deep meaning of existence; True faith resides in the heart. Votes: 0

All Authors come from the unified countrynent known as Australia. Authors live in the future where love is external. Votes: 0

When you struggle with weight, it's not an internal struggle... it's literally an external struggle, and everyone sees it. Votes: 0

When we take our focus off of our external selves, and others, God does His best work internally!" JW Votes: 0

Some people think self-employment is risky, but the real risk lies in deriving your security from an external source. Votes: 0

Punishment damages goodwill and self-esteem, and shifts our attention from the intrinsic value of an action to external consequences. Votes: 0

I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body: they transmit movement to it. Votes: 0

A fitting external security environment could also play an important role in promoting social consensus and institutionalization towards democratization. Votes: 0

Champions know that there's something inside that makes a champion, and other people think that it might something external. Votes: 0

The equivalent of external noise is the inner noise of thinking. The equivalent of external silence is inner stillness. Votes: 0

envy is one of the scorpions of the mind, often having little to do with the objective, external world ... Votes: 0

The more you live by external shoulds, the farther you drift from the power inherent in your own spirit. Votes: 0

Man's external form, marvellously constructed, is not much as compared with the divine soul that dwells inside that structure. Votes: 0

We cannot let external criticism, even if it's true, fortify our internal foe. That foe is strong enough already. Votes: 0

The teacher loses the position of external boss or dictator but takes on that of leader of group activities Votes: 0

The more that all of the external things began to materialize, the less the internal things began to crystallize. Votes: 0

Compassion and love is the source of external and internal peace and is also the root of racial survival. Votes: 0

The purpose of art is to represent the meaning of things. This represents the true reality, not external aspects. Votes: 0

Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric. Votes: 0

The important correction needed by worldly religions is the transformation from external religious teaching to truthful internal spiritual reality. Votes: 0

Relationships are so much like the United States - they only really thrive when faced with an external threat. Votes: 0

Absolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably without relation to anything external. Votes: 0

An external thing that is knowable [is knowable] by means of something internal that is consubstantial [with the rational soul]. Votes: 0

We should devote ourselves to being self-sufficient and must not depend upon the external ratings by others for our happiness. Votes: 0

And so artistic creation is the metamorphosis of the external physical aspects of a thing into a self-sustaining spiritual reality . Votes: 0

All our science calculates with abstracted individual external marks, which do not touch the inner existence of any single thing Votes: 0

If someone remains in a peaceful and tranquil state of mind, external surroundings can cause them only a limited disturbance. Votes: 0

The true self, once discovered, is the source of creativity, intelligence and personal growth. No external solution has such power. Votes: 0

Men are so accustomed to maintaining external order by violence that they cannot conceive of life being possible without violence. Votes: 0

Happiness is intrinsic, it's an internal thing. When you build it into yourself, no external circumstances can take it away. Votes: 0

Motivation is an inner force that compels behavior. Your inner drives will propel you further and faster than external perks. Votes: 0

The man or the woman who can display the nonviolence of the brave can easily stand against as external invasion. Votes: 0

This, then, is freedom in the external life of man-that he is independent of the arbitrary power of his fellows. Votes: 0

Yoga is an inner process, which makes it a solitary venture, yet it works better when you have external support. Votes: 0

Every flower has a song in her heart, which we can never see.We only can see her external beauty. Votes: 0

I sometimes think that the prevalent use of external cosmetics eats out the internal brain if persisted in long enough. Votes: 0

When who you are and what you are is not decided by any external forces, then you are in dignity. Votes: 0

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man... It is more powerful than external circumstances. Votes: 0

Internal and external nature, mind and matter, are in time and space, and are bound by the law of causation. Votes: 0

Memory never recaptures reality. Memory reconstructs. All reconstructions change the original, becoming external frames of reference that inevitably fall short. Votes: 0

God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so. Votes: 0

When it comes to human success, I'm pretty sure the object doesn't need a net external force to move it. Votes: 0

Unlike an external enemy, the inner enemy cannot regroup and launch a comeback once it has been destroyed from within. Votes: 0

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances. Votes: 0

It is not light they need but strength, and strength permeates through the external balm of words and good example. Votes: 0

We all go through life bristling at our external limitations, but the most difficult chains to break are inside us. Votes: 0

The intelligence is clear: (Saddam) continues to believe his WMD programme is essential both for internal repression and for external aggression. Votes: 0

Contractile movements arise, sometimes at the instigation of external stimuli but sometimes also in the absence of any apparent external influence. Votes: 0

The photograph is an incomplete utterance, a message that depends on some external matrix of conditions and presuppositions for its readability. Votes: 0

Within each and every one of us is a divine power that needs no substance or anything external to know bliss. Votes: 0

Success is a spiritual process, not a worldly one; that is to say it is an internal process, and not external. Votes: 0

Man is man so long as he is struggling to rise above nature, and this nature is both internal and external. Votes: 0

If the individual has a right to govern himself, all external government is tyranny. Hence the necessity of abolishing the State. Votes: 0

The optimistic style of explaining good events is the opposite of that used for bad events: It's internal rather than external. Votes: 0

Our internal life and external actions are steered by biological coctails to which we have neither immediate access nor direct acquaintance. Votes: 0

If you are pained by any external thing, it is not this that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it. Votes: 0

The battle is lost or won in the secret places of the will before God, never first in the external world. Votes: 0

It was not really the external influences that made me a singer. Music was within me. I was full of it. Votes: 0

The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers. Votes: 0

The scope of America's global hegemony is admittedly great, but its depth is shallow, limited by both domestic and external restraints. Votes: 0

People who hold a low view of themselves [will credit] their achievements to external factors, rather than to their own capabilities Votes: 0

I try to write about internal experience versus the external self. I like to present ideas, but not package them neatly. Votes: 0

It is a sin directly against one's neighbour, since one man cannot over-abound in external riches, without another man lacking them. Votes: 0

Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him. Votes: 0

The future of Africa lies not with external actors but within Africa itself. The future of Africa lies here in Africa. Votes: 0

Our relations with others are not external. They enter into our very identity. And that's why people struggle with them so. Votes: 0

The finer is always the cause, the grosser the effect. So the external world is the effect, the internal the cause. Votes: 0

The manifestation of poetry in external life is formal perfection. True sentiment grows within, and art must represent internal phenomena externally. Votes: 0

I want to work beyond external aggressions, forget that one has something to do for others if it's not for oneself. Votes: 0

Chance arrives unannounced. It emerges, and when it leaves, we are lucky if the changes it has produced are only external. Votes: 0

Happiness is a state of mind, so the real source of happiness must lie within the mind, not in external conditions. Votes: 0

Class struggle: external peace, international solidarity, peace among peoples. This is the sacred slogan of international socialist democracy that liberates nations. Votes: 0

Don't worry about society's conditioning and the labels that are put on you by external forces. Hold onto your true self. Votes: 0

[Albert Camus] wasn't writing under the influence of the Nobel Prize. That was an external thing for the artist in him. Votes: 0

That which takes us nearer to the Almighty (Sat) is truth. Truth needs no external support to sustain or promote itself. Votes: 0

The demands of internal growth are incomparably more important to us...than the need for any external expansion of our power. Votes: 0

Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities. Votes: 0

There is no free society without silence, without the internal and external spaces of solitude in which the individual freedom can develop. Votes: 0

The planet will not survive another hundred years of the same state of consciousness that produced the external effects of recent history. Votes: 0

I believe that leadership acts should be manifested by engaging in external work that can be observed and shared with everyone else. Votes: 0

Oneness is inner silence, which remains undisturbed by external factors. This silence is not the opposite of noise. That is inner Oneness. Votes: 0

There is little sense in attempting to change external conditions, you must first change inner beliefs, then outer conditions will change accordingly. Votes: 0

The interaction of genetic and external influences makes my behaviour unpredictable, but not undetermined. In the gap between those words lies freedom. Votes: 0

Do not have an attitude, open yourself and focus yourself and express yourself. Reject external form that fails to express internal reality. Votes: 0

I feel that the surrealists have created a series of valid external landscapes which have their direct correspondences within our own minds. Votes: 0

I've always been interested in the relationship between total external surround, culture, the political matrix, technology, etc., and the internal human consciousness. Votes: 0

Psychical confidence is the external expression of our internal state of confidence. In simpler terms, it is how confidence looks and sounds. Votes: 0

The search for moral guidance which shall not depend upon external authority has invariably ended in the acknowledgment of some new authority. Votes: 0

Be selective about your external influences. Your multi-dimensional brain is influenced by everything you see, hear, read, smell, touch, feel or say. Votes: 0

Interestingly enough, not all feelings result from the body's reaction to external stimuli. Sometimes changes are purely simulated in the brain maps. Votes: 0

It is the culture that makes the difference. When there is no internal transformation, there cannot be external progress and development whatsoever. Votes: 0

Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces. Votes: 0

The inversion of external compulsion into the compulsion of conscience ... produces the machine-like assiduity and pliable allegiance required by the new rationality. Votes: 0

What makes a story a story is that something changes. Internal, external, small or large, trivial or of earth-shattering importance. Doesn't matter. Votes: 0

I think instead [of happiness] we should be working for contentment... an inner sense of fulfillment that's relatively independent of external circumstances. Votes: 0

The biggest (and hardest) lesson I've learned in life is that the external world is just a reflection of the world within. Votes: 0

The role of education is to interest the child profoundly in an external activity to which he will give all his potential Votes: 0

Many many external circumstances are outside of your control, but will affect the outcome, and you have to be OK with that. Votes: 0

Love is pleasure accompanied by the idea of an external cause, and hatred pain accompanied by the idea of an external cause. Votes: 0

You will find it easier to accept contrary views, knowing that you are not defined by anything or anyone external to yourself. Votes: 0

Nothing is more fleeting than external form, which withers and alters like the flowers of the field at the appearance of autumn. Votes: 0

Inspiration is external and motivation is internal. It is up to me to provide the switch and you to flip it on! Votes: 0

As you go about your life, don't give 100 percent of your attention to the external world and your mind. Keep some within. Votes: 0

This really revolutionary revolution is to be achieved, not in the external world, but in the souls and flesh of human beings. Votes: 0

Each one chooses his or her path to come in contact with the external world. I chose to merge with the environment. Votes: 0

The body is thus not simply an 'entity', but is experienced as a practical mode of coping with external situations and events. Votes: 0

What we call powers, secrets of nature, and force, are all within. In the external world are only a series of changes. Votes: 0

Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world. Votes: 0

There comes a point where the disappointments in your life accrue faster than you can find external forces to blame them on. Votes: 0

If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable - what then? Votes: 0

If we really want to achieve true prayer, we must turn our backs upon everything temporal, everything external, everything that is not divine. Votes: 0

Because sloths' metabolisms are so slow, they don't exhibit many external signs of stress and it can be hard to determine their mood. Votes: 0

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. Votes: 0

Religion is a search for transcendence. But transcendence isn't necessarily sited in an external god, which can be a very unspiritual, unreligious concept. Votes: 0

Freedom is not only the absence of external restraints. It is also the absence of irresistible internal compulsions, unmanageable passion, and uncensorable highlights. Votes: 0

I believe that modern science supports free will, in showing that the brain can act spontaneously, not only in response to external stimuli. Votes: 0

Plan from your internal or spiritual view of things. The external view always has a way of distorting, discouraging and limiting your dream. Votes: 0

To the thinker, the most trifling external object often suggests ideas, which, like Homer's chain, extend, link after link, from earth to heaven. Votes: 0

Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance. Votes: 0

Knowledge always desires increase, it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterwards propagate itself. Votes: 0

Too often, contemning the external order as unspiritual, [the Puritan] has made it, and ultimately himself, less spiritual by reason of his contempt. Votes: 0

You can develop the right mental attitude when you realize that nothing external can upset you or hurt you without your mental consent. Votes: 0

We do not have to borrow in the external market, but we have used and are using this traditional instrument in international financial relations. Votes: 0

I have a fantastic wife, and not only in terms of external beauty. Her priority and mine is our children. That is our choice. Votes: 0

The sense organs experience the external light, sound, etc. with difficulty; the different sense organs only have a so-called specific receptivity for particular stimuli. Votes: 0

The sense organs experience the external light, sound, etc. with difficulty; the different sense organs only have a so-called specific receptivity for particular stimuli. Votes: 0

A longing for excitement can be satisfied without external means within oneself: For creating is the most intense excitement one can come to know. Votes: 0

Cubism is an anatomical chart of a way of seeing external objects. But I want to confuse the meaning of the act of looking. Votes: 0

Start planning from your internal or spiritual view of things. The external view always has a way of distorting, discouraging and limiting your dream. Votes: 0

The law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race. Votes: 0

Why are our bodies soft, and weak, and smooth But that our soft conditions and our hearts Should well agree with our external parts? Votes: 0

Marriage for love is the beautifulest external symbol of the union of souls, marriage without it is the uncleanliest traffic that defiles the world. Votes: 0

It is not possible to control all external events; But, if I simply control my mind what need is there to control other things? Votes: 0

The reason people fear to confide in anyone is that even an internal friend can make personal details external, and it will remain eternal. Votes: 0

All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in external things and in the future as a substitute for the joy of Being. Votes: 0

A prince ought to have two fears, one from within, on account of his subjects, the other from without, on account of external powers. Votes: 0

By losing my external things, I found myself. I found something very powerful, very permanent, that I could have with me all the time. Votes: 0

All things are symbols: the external shows Of Nature have their image in the mind , As flowers and fruits and falling of the leaves. Votes: 0

Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness; and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects. Votes: 0

China can keep her troops on the external frontiers of Tibet, and Tibetans will pledge to accept the appropriate form of union with China. Votes: 0

When the external factors over which one has no control in a way start to become negative, it starts to affect our creative juices. Votes: 0

I reckon it's more of an external perspective that on some level you really can control and dictate how your career's going to go. Votes: 0

Physical condition or advancing of age are not obstacles to a perfect life. God does not look at external things but at the soul. Votes: 0

O holy Sunday, let your darkness not come along my way. Let her nurture internal and external world, as I start my personal day. Votes: 0

It has been clear for some time now that we have to do more for domestic and external security. I am prepared for that. Votes: 0

Beware the mediocrity that threatens middle age, its limitation of thought and interest, its dullness of fancy, its too external life, and mental thinness. Votes: 0

If our history has taught us anything, it is that action for change directed against the external conditions of our oppressions is not enough. Votes: 0

The dream is the liberation of the spirit from the pressure of external nature, a detachment of the soul from the fetters of matter. Votes: 0

Men's activities are occupied into ways -- in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind. Votes: 0

Masood Ahmed brings to the position of director of external relations extensive experience gained in a range of senior positions in international finance and development. Votes: 0

...the realm of freedom does not commence until the point is passed where labor under the compulsion of necessity and of external utility is required. Votes: 0

Today give up false mental attachments and beliefs! Free yourself from the delusion that anything external can fulfill the hunger of your soul for God-Consciousness. Votes: 0

We can provide beta software to our developers in advance of the general public. We can easily link up with external partners, customers, and suppliers. Votes: 0

Through itself the soul arrives at all harmony that is perceptible in otherness-just as through what is internal the soul arrives at what is external. Votes: 0

We can provide beta software to our developers in advance of the general public. We can easily link up with external partners, customers, and suppliers. Votes: 0

Sustainable change, after all, depends not upon compliance with external mandates or blind adherence to regulation, but rather upon the pursuit of the greater good. Votes: 0

It is also in theory, conceivable that some universal empire some day might cover the whole globe, leaving no external "barbarians" to serve as invaders. Votes: 0

The communal life of human beings had . . . a two-fold foundation: the compulsion to work, which was created by external necessity, and the power of love. Votes: 0

The organism cannot be regarded as simply the passive object of autonomous internal and external forces; it is also the subject of its own evolution. Votes: 0

Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them. Votes: 0

To commiserate is sometimes more than to give, for money is external to a man's self, but he who bestows compassion communicates his own soul. Votes: 0

The main factor in meditation is to keep the mind active in its own pursuit without taking in external impressions or thinking of other matters. Votes: 0

I attribute my ability to maintain cool to God, self-esteem, and knowing my purpose in life. It can't be based on anything material or external. Votes: 0

Spirituality is not some external goal that one must seek, but a part of the divine core of each of us, which we must reveal. Votes: 0

The external freedom won't be given to us but in the exact measure as we've known at a given moment, to developing our internal freedom. Votes: 0

My grief lies all within, And these external manners of lament Are merely shadows to the unseen grief That swells with silence in the tortured soul. Votes: 0

Become aware of the silent witness that is observing the unfolding of all the external events of your life. This eternal presence is your true Self. Votes: 0

dogma and shrinking from the external world are at one limit of the range of belief. At the other are science and poetry and, indeed, reality. Votes: 0

Be cheerful, also, and seek not external help, nor the peace which others give. A man must stand straight, and not be kept straight by others. Votes: 0

Every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good. But it finds its own success at last, and then the prudent also extol. Votes: 0

Some people try deliberately to exploit the colonial hangover for their own purpose, to serve an external force. To us, Communism is as bad as imperialism. Votes: 0

My greatest desire is that I may perceive the God whom I find everywhere in the external world, in like manner also within and inside myself. Votes: 0

Meeting external deadlines is much harder than meeting internal ones. On the other hand, internal deadlines sometimes don't feel real, and are therefore easy to evade. Votes: 0

To live fully, outwardly and inwardly, not to ignore the external reality for the sake of the inner life, or the reverse, that's quite a task Votes: 0

Many people never grow up. They stay all their lives with a passionate need for external authority and guidance, pretending not to trust their own judgment. Votes: 0

There are comedians who focus on everything that is external. They focus on politics and the news, what's going on in that city and that night. Votes: 0

I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all between the external and the internal. Votes: 0

If you wish to be loved, be modest; if you wish to be admired, be proud; if you wish both, combine external modesty with internal pride. Votes: 0

The external appearance of any construction projects that are created during the time of the National Socialist Reich must take on the sensibility of our time. Votes: 0

The reason why clutter clearing is effective is that while you are putting your external world in order there are corresponding changes going on internally too. Votes: 0

Organizations are now confronted with two sources of change: the traditional type that is initiated and managed; and external changes over which no one has control. Votes: 0

A culture that denies death inevitably becomes shallow and superficial, concerned only with the external form of things. When death is denied, life loses its depth. Votes: 0

A change in external circumstances without inner renewal is a materialist's illusion, as though man were only a product of his social circumstance and nothing else. Votes: 0

Only the subject's individual consciousness can testify for the unwitnessed acts, and there is no act more deprived of external testimony than the act of knowing. Votes: 0

Organisations are now confronted with two sources of change: the traditional type that is initiated and managed; and external changes over which no one has control. Votes: 0

The ultimate definition of success is: you could lose everything that you have and truly be okay with it. Your happiness isn't based on external factors. Votes: 0

The basic philosophy of stoicism is that you have nothing real external to your own consciousness, that the only thing real is in fact your consciousness. Votes: 0

I paint to rest from the phenomena of the external world-to pronounce and to make notations of its essences with which to verify the inner eye. Votes: 0

It is only as a man puts off from himself all external support, and stands alone, that I see him to be strong and to prevail. Votes: 0

A hypocrite [is the one who] wants to impress others with an external facade of religious piety that he knows is devoid of internal spiritual substance. Votes: 0

Fashion is nothing more than the temporary custom of rich and idle people who make it their principal business to study the external elegance of life. Votes: 0

I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in Hell. Votes: 0

I was motivated by just thinking that if you had all this external success that everyone would love you and everything would be peaceful and wonderful. Votes: 0

Those who follow the Tao are of clear mind. They do not load their mind with anxieties and are flexible in their adjustment to external conditions. Votes: 0

Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there. Votes: 0

Dedication to goodness-dedication in response to an inner moral mandate rather than external restraint-was both the antidote to the pain and the source of great happiness. Votes: 0

The most stable, and therefore, the most healthy self-esteem is based on deserved respect from others rather than on external fame or celebrity and unwarranted adulation. Votes: 0

Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world. Votes: 0

More women speaking up and seizing the helm of power can create its own momentum. It can change the culture that helps perpetuate those external forces. Votes: 0

It is easy to see that the ego is that part of the id which has been modified by the direct influence of the external world. Votes: 0

We live inside our mind. That's all there is. Everything that you experience is not external, it's internal. All your experiences are predicated upon your awareness field. Votes: 0

There aren't that many policy changes you can do, so I'd say you ride the wave and hope that maybe some of the external events help you. Votes: 0

Talents give a man a superiority far more agreeable than that which proceeds from riches, birth, or employments, which are all external. Talents constitute our very essence. Votes: 0

You can not retain a true and clear vision of wealth if you are constantly turning your attention to opposing pictures, whether they be external or imaginary. Votes: 0

The dark in soul see in the universe their own shadow; the shattered spirit can only reflect external beauty in form as untrue and broken as itself. Votes: 0

Writing is a tool of transformation and can shine the light on the inside, dispelling darkness, taking us through external layers, bringing us closer to our souls. Votes: 0

There is but one way to tranquility of mind and happiness, and that is to account no external things thine own, but to commit all to God. Votes: 0

I believe in maximum flexibility, so I reserve the right to change my position on any subject when the external environment relating to any topic changes too. Votes: 0

Meditation is a journey without movement. In the external world you have to move in order to go ahead, in meditation you don't move, yet you attain. Votes: 0

My internal and external life depend so much on the work of others that I must make an extreme effort to give as much as I receive. Votes: 0

Many people don't realise until they are on their deathbed and everything external falls away that no thing ever had anything to do with who they are. Votes: 0

The transcendent experience is brotherly love, nature, harmony and unity. Cultures, in trying to define it, try to define an external deity as opposed to the process. Votes: 0

The atom cannot disobey the law. Whether it is the mental or the physical atom, it must obey the law. "What is the use of [external restraint]?" Votes: 0

The natural law of inertia: Matter will remain at rest or continue in uniform motion in the same straight line unless acted upon by some external force. Votes: 0

Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love of liberty will, after a time, give way to its dictates. Votes: 0

You can look for external sources of motivation and that can catalyze a change, but it won't sustain one. It has to be from an internal desire. Votes: 0

Inner disarmament, external disarmament; these must go together, you see. Peace is not just mere absence of violence - genuine peace must start in each individual heart. Votes: 0

Nothing in the fact that there was a first moment in time necessitates that an external something is required to bring the universe about at that moment. Votes: 0

The Sun-Paul must consider only one thing: what is the relation of this or that external reaction of the animal to the phenomena of the external world? Votes: 0

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him. Votes: 0

Men, however distinguished by external accidents or intrinsick qualities, have all the same wants, the same pains, and, as far as the senses are consulted, the same pleasures. Votes: 0

A fully integrated culture would be like the dinosaurs, which had to perish because they were no longer able to adapt themselves to changes in the external environment. Votes: 0

What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things... it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface. Votes: 0

Religion does not mean just precepts, a temple, monastery, or other external signs, for these as well as hearing and thinking are subsidiary factors in taming the mind. Votes: 0

In man's brain the impressions from outside are not merely registered; they produce concepts and ideas. They are the imprint of the external world upon the human brain. Votes: 0

But, on balance, we seized the marketplace. We've got a great infrastructure. And yes it's struggling in some areas because of some external factors and some internal factors. Votes: 0

You don't think of yourself as your external representation, or even your national origin or anything like that. You don't reduce yourself to that. That's kind of unthinkable. Votes: 0

We are always doing something, talking, reading, listening to the radio, planning what next. The mind is kept naggingly busy on some easy, unimportant external thing all day. Votes: 0

Good-breeding is the art of showing men, by external signs, the internal regard we have for them. It arises from good sense, improved by conversing with good company. Votes: 0

As science went further and further into the external world, they ended up inside the atom where to their surprise they saw consciousness staring them in the face! Votes: 0

That you will feel the validation of your external beauty but also get to the deeper business of being beautiful inside. There is no shade to that beauty. Votes: 0

I have mostly software synthesizers and software drum machines. I'm very lazy. I don't really like to plug in a lot of equipment and external boxes and everything. Votes: 0

That which compels us to create a substitute for ourselves is not the external lack of objects, but our incapacity to lovingly include a thing outside of ourselves Votes: 0

A man's true estate of power and riches is to be in himself; not in his dwelling or position or external relations, but in his own essential character. Votes: 0

If you cannot accept an external event immediately, then some kind of resistance will come up. And there may be some external events you cannot accept at all. Votes: 0

We are the most powerful nation on earth. No external power, no terrorist organization can defeat us. But we can defeat ourselves by getting caught in a quagmire. Votes: 0

My life has been full of external tragedies and if they have not left any visible effect on me, I owe it to the teaching of the Bhagavadgita. Votes: 0

When we experience the power of the Self, there is an absence of fear, there is no compulsion to control, and no struggle for approval or external power. Votes: 0

On the other hand, for the whole human being who wills, feels, and represents, external reality is given simultaneously and with as much certitude as his own self. Votes: 0

There is nothing outside of us that is not at the same time in us, and as the external world has its colors the eye, too, has colors. Votes: 0

We are the most powerful nation on earth. No external power, no terrorist organization, can defeat us. But we can defeat ourselves by getting caught in a quagmire. Votes: 0

I made the mistake of thinking that external accomplishments would bring me peace. I thought it was about the job or a book or making a name for myself. Votes: 0

A girl's modesty is first noted by her external presentation, but if it's not followed by the confidence of internal modesty, she still forfeits the power of her virtue. Votes: 0

You're a unique person. You should do what you're suited to do. We all should. It's the only way to be happy. That pressure is all outside. It's external. Votes: 0

I've been surrounded by a lot of people who felt that external success would result in them feeling good about themselves. But it just seems extremely unfulfilling to me. Votes: 0

I like to say that before we can create an external space in which to receive people, we have to create an internal space in which to receive them. Votes: 0

You are one and only creator of your reality. Even when you might think there is some external force out there creating it for you, it is just you. Votes: 0

Nothing in the many processes of Nature, whether she deals with men or with things, comes by chance or accident or is really at the mercy of external causes. Votes: 0

The biggest tab the public picks up for fossil fuels has to do with what economists call 'external costs,' like the health effects of air and water pollution. Votes: 0

Action is the normal completion of the act of will which begins as prayer. That action is not always external, but it is always some kind of effective energy. Votes: 0

I am really OK with the way I look. It's fine. All this is transient. I mean, it's really, you know, it changes with time, and that's the external. Votes: 0

Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. To be more safe, [nations] at length become willing to run the risk of being less free. Votes: 0

In New York the acoustics are good for laughter, for life is all external, all action, no thought, no meditation, no dreaming, no reflection, only the exuberance of action. Votes: 0

The point of art is not simply to express ourselves, but to create an external, concrete form in which the soul of our lives can be evoked and contained. Votes: 0

Action is the normal completion of the act of will which begins as prayer. That action is not always external, but it is always some kind of effective energy. Votes: 0

Someday in the distant cyborg future, when our internal and external memories fully merge, we may come to possess infinite knowledge. But that's not the same thing as wisdom. Votes: 0

Seek first the Kingdom of God: that is, the first order of business is to transform one's own inner life, not the accumulation of external trappings of speculative knowledge. Votes: 0

It is we ourselves who alone shall shape our destinies, rising always above the external circumstances and conditions which from time to time shall be thrown across our paths. Votes: 0

Our Creator has given us five senses to help us survive threats from the external world, and a sixth sense, our healing system, to help us survive internal threats. Votes: 0

Our survival as a human community may depend as much upon our nurture of love in infancy and childhood as upon the protection of our society from external threats. Votes: 0

Treat all things as if they were loaned to you without any ownership - whether body or soul, sense or strength, external goods or honors, house or hall . . . everything. Votes: 0

Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs. Votes: 0

Look at what your idea of success would be. The more that you take in external motivators, the more it reduces your ultimate satisfaction because it doesn't come from inside. Votes: 0

I paint to rest from the phenomena of the external world - to pronounce it -- and to make notations of its essences with which to verify the inner eye. Votes: 0

Martial arts have two parts. One is external, other internal. The external is physical part. The internal is philosophy of how to be, what kind of person learns martial arts. Votes: 0

Money is the currency of life because it is the external measurement system that all of us have as to how we judge where we are in our own lives. Votes: 0

Peace is not just the absence of mass destruction, but a positive internal and external condition in which people are free so that they can grow to their full potential. Votes: 0

I've always found drugs and alcohol somewhat pedestrian. It's like, I don't need an external agent to open my mind. I'm here, conscious, alert, present. Why would I alter that? Votes: 0

The internal and external ethics of an organization must be the same; you cannot talk about minimum wages for poor people and not pay minimum wages to your own workers. Votes: 0

Human life is now molded to a large extent by the changes that man has brought about in his external environment and by his attempts at controlling body and soul. Votes: 0

And, you run also video because to fly this arm, you're relying mostly on some external camera views that may be coming from the arm itself or from the station. Votes: 0

I believe that the first step in the setting of a real external world is the formation of the concept of bodily objects and of bodily objects of various kinds. Votes: 0

Seriously, these days I tend to shut up in terms of external analysis and DO try to let things speak for themselves, while still trying to get some depth into them. Votes: 0

Another illusion is that external events have the power to hurt you, that other people have the power to hurt you. They don't. It's you who give this power to them. Votes: 0

No book that is written for an external purpose is going to be a passionately felt book for the writer or the reader. I don't see the point in doing that. Votes: 0

Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so. The only chance is to treat not happiness, but some end external to it, as the purpose of life. Votes: 0

As an actor, one is so appreciative when one is working. I think I am lucky that I have the opportunity to work having that total dependence on an external validation. Votes: 0

Silence is the language of Om. We need silence to be able to reach our Self. Both internal and external silence is very important to feel the presence of that supreme Love. Votes: 0

If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgement of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgement now. Votes: 0

The true story of every person in this world is not the story you see, the external story. The true story of each person is the journey of his or her heart. Votes: 0

Enforcement is the long overdue step to protect our Nation from external threats in a time of war. And then once we do that, we can effectively discuss a guest worker program. Votes: 0

Peace is the result of an inner state of harmony. It is not obtained by eliminating anything external, it is inside ourselves that we must find and suppress the causes of war. Votes: 0

For me personally, I don't pray using words - it is just with my intent. Why do I need to pray with "words," to something external, when I know what I want? Votes: 0

True and lasting inner peace can never be found in external things. It can only be found within in. And then, once we find and nurture it with ourselves, it radiates outward. Votes: 0

The key point to understand is that prosperity is an internal experience, not an external state, and it is an experience that is not tied to having a certain amount of money. Votes: 0

The body is a cell state in which every cell is a citizen. Disease is merely the conflict of the citizens of the state brought about by the action of external forces. Votes: 0

When some external event raises your spirits and you think good days are preparing for you, do not believe it. It can never be so. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Votes: 0

The content of a thought depends on its external relations; on the way that the thought is related to the world, not on the way that it is related to other thoughts. Votes: 0

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. Votes: 0

Music is one of the sharpest blades that we have to cut through the thick entangled web of the external mind and lead us back into the silent cave of our own Heart. Votes: 0

When we look at external things, we can usually distinguish those that are useful and valuable from those that are not. We must learn to look at our mind in the same way. Votes: 0

One needs to be on guard against expecting external powers to decide when you can take yourself seriously as an artist. It can be a long wait - and lead to endless appetite. Votes: 0

However, no two people see the external world in exactly the same way. To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is - in other words, not a thing, but a think. Votes: 0

Most of the reason I work out now is not for the external - it's for how I feel. I find working out gives me more energy. I started eight days after he was born. Votes: 0