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External nature is only internal nature writ large. -- Swami Vivekananda
External silence helps to achieve inner silence. -- Meher Baba
External pressure seems to produce internal unity. -- Kenneth Waltz
External beauty is a bizarre thing to me. -- Douglas Booth
External silence can be the doorway to inner silence. -- Ram Dass
External instruments are only extensions of the biological instrument. -- Yusef Lateef
External motion we call action; internal motion is human thought. -- Swami Vivekananda
External circumstances will not change until internal belief systems change. -- Myles Munroe
External reality is sort of an affectation of the nervous system. -- Jaron Lanier
External practices have value only as helps to develop internal purity. -- Swami Vivekananda
External circumstances do not create feeling states. Feeling states create external circumstances. -- Martha Beck
External conditions can, to a certain extent, reduce, but never cancel individual repsonsibility. -- Albert Einstein
External actions are evidence of internal beliefs. Our deeds are what show our creeds. -- Tim Hiller
External beauty is certainly cool to admire, but when worshipped - it eclipses internal shine. -- T.F. Hodge
External freedom has probably never existed, but neither have I ever known anyone who knew inner freedom. -- Marlen Haushofer
Your success and happiness lie within you. External conditions are the accidents of life, its outer trappings. -- Helen Keller
External fears cease of their own accord when once we have conquered these traitors within the camp. -- Mahatma Gandhi
External things are not the problem. It's your assessment of them. Which you can erase right now. -- Marcus Aurelius
External circumstances can contribute to one's happiness and well-being, but ultimately happiness and suffering depend on the mind. -- Dalai Lama
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? -- Gilles Deleuze
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. -- John Wooden
Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond. -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude. -- Dale Carnegie
There is something sublime about its aloofness from and its indifference to its external environment. -- Frederick Soddy
Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities. -- William Throsby Bridges
Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart. -- Freya Stark
Every friendship goes through ups and downs. Dysfunctional patterns set in; external situations cause internal friction; you grow apart and then bounce back together. -- Mariella Frostrup
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. -- Leonardo da Vinci
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. -- George B. McClellan
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. -- Philip Zimbardo
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. -- Vladimir Putin
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. -- Michael Steinhardt
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. -- Nikola Tesla
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. -- Gottfried Leibniz
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. -- Josh McDowell
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. -- Kurt Cobain
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. -- Vaclav Havel
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. -- Daniel Boone
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. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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. -- Nikola Tesla
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. -- Cory Booker
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. -- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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. -- Max Heindel
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. -- Jack Canfield
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. -- Steve Jobs
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. -- Shilpa Shetty
Internal victories precede external victories. -- Stephen Covey
Television leaves no external scars. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Internal conviction drives external action. -- Todd Stocker
The external rest comes unexpected. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Thernos 1.0 is an external point-of-care BlackBerry. -- Elizabeth Holmes
We gain internal freedom through external actions. -- Ram Dass
Don't instantly throw yourself into external demands. -- Deepak Chopra
Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions. -- Epictetus
Our external physical reality is a mathematical structure. -- Max Tegmark
Real happiness is not dependent on external things. -- William Lyon Phelps
Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech. -- Antoine Rivarol
Honour is external conscience, and conscience is inward honour. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity. -- Aristotle
Hope is a psychological mechanism unaffected by external realities. -- Gene Wolfe
Nothing external to you has any power over you. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
People place such importance on the external. It's disgusting. -- Tab Hunter
Life is in ourselves and not in the external. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances. -- Fernando Flores
Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment. -- Powell Clayton
ONE MUST BE COMPASSIONATE TO ONE'S SELF BEFORE EXTERNAL COMPASSION. -- Dalai Lama
Master your responses to external events--don't attempt to control them. -- Caroline Myss
The mature person perceives the fruitlessness of rigid, external methodologies. -- Laozi
We do not depend upon any external help in meditation. -- Swami Vivekananda
Peace can be found within, no matter the external circumstances. -- Allan Lokos
My dream for Israel is peace, external and internal peace. -- Amos Oz
You have, like the external world, your own phenomena inside. -- Saul Bellow
The law of God cannot be fulfilled by external obedience. -- Martin Luther
There is no external solution to the problem of insecurity. -- Stefan Molyneux
You won't acquire external Haters until you've conquered the internal Hater. -- Orrin Woodward
Discussing external migration issues is impossible without discussing internal migration issues -- Jack Goldstone
Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations. -- Herbert Spencer
The external world is committed to helping Georgia settle its problems. -- Eduard Shevardnadze
Seek not the good in external things;seek it in yourselves. -- Epictetus
I don't think Spain will need any kind of external support. -- Jean-Claude Juncker
Grow internally first. Strengthen your bottom line first before considering external growth. -- Richard Branson
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Once you transcend the external differences, anything can be merged with anything. -- Liezi
Guilt addresses an external action while shame attacks the internal character!" EL -- Evinda Lepins
Happiness mainly comes from our own attitude, rather than from external factors. -- Dalai Lama
If one abuses or neglects internal powers, external forces will act accordingly. -- T.F. Hodge
Very broadly, literature concerns itself with the internal, cinema with the external. -- Martin Amis
Grace is within you. If it were external, it would be useless. -- Ramana Maharshi
Yoga is for internal cleansing, not external exercising. Yoga means true self-knowledge. -- K. Pattabhi Jois
Men need some kind of external activity, because they are inactive within. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Our own evil inclinations are far more dangerous than any external enemies. -- Ambrose
True peace is a quality you carry within yourself, regardless of external circumstances. -- John Templeton
Artistic inevitability lies in the complete adequacy of the external to the emotion. -- T. S. Eliot
What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things, -- Constantin Brancusi
A church that focuses on the external has lost its passion for souls. -- T. D. Jakes
Happiness, as is evident, depends partly upon external circumstances and partly upon oneself. -- Bertrand Russell
Liberty is the freedom of individual to express, without external hindrances, his personality. -- G. D. H. Cole
Sometimes, it is an external force that makes you realize your real potential. -- Arjun Kapoor
Your success in life depends on you more than any other external factors. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
True happiness is not related to external conditions but comes from the unconditioned. -- Eckhart Tolle
Self-doubt does more to sabotage individual potential than all external limitations put together. -- Brian Tracy
The insane do not share the normal prejudice in favor of external reality. -- Norman O. Brown
Your external appearance can be great, but your stunning beauty beams from within. -- Wayne Chirisa
All the defects are obstacles that anchors the mind to the external senses. -- Samael Aun Weor
Ritual is to the internal sciences what experiment is to the external sciences. -- Timothy Leary
Happiness is determined more by one's state of mind than by external events. -- Dalai Lama
Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes. -- W. Clement Stone
It is inconceivable that people are motivated solely or even mainly by external incentives. -- Bruno Frey
Nothing, except what flows from the heart, can render even external manners truly pleasing. -- Hugh Blair
From the perspective of mere representation, the external world always remains only a phenomenon. -- Wilhelm Dilthey
The infantile cowardice of our time which demands an external pattern, a nonhuman authority. -- Archibald MacLeish
Everybody acts not only under external compulsion but also in accordance with inner necessity. -- Albert Einstein
Happiness depends on our thoughts and actions, not on wealth, splendor, or external conditions. -- Debasish Mridha
Moderates tend more than ideologues to be other-directed types who respond to external pressure. -- Timothy Noah
The idea is that that there is no such thing as an external enemy. -- Guy Ritchie
When you reach the point of becoming independent of external events, you're truly free. -- Steve Pavlina
Our health is our sound relation to external objects; our sympathy with external being. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The End is included among goods of the soul, and not among external goods. -- Aristotle
Beliefs are the determinants of what one experiences. There are no external 'causes.' -- David Hawkins
Be the same still mountain self and mountain peace no matter what the external conditions. -- George Minot

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