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The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. -- Epictetus
All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy. -- John Ruskin
The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness or good: particular affections rest in the external things themselves. -- Joseph Butler
To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history. -- Eckhart Tolle
We cannot observe external things without some degree of Thought; nor can we reflect upon our Thoughts, without being influenced in the course of our reflection by the Things which we have observed. -- William Whewell
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
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
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
Real happiness is not dependent on external things. -- William Lyon Phelps
Seek not the good in external things;seek it in yourselves. -- Epictetus
What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things, -- Constantin Brancusi
Every issue of life is determined not by external conditions and things, but by one's consciousness. -- Harold Klemp
External things are not the problem. It's your assessment of them. Which you can erase right now. -- Marcus Aurelius
Don't imagine that your perfection lies in accumulating or possessing external things. Your affection is inside of you. -- Oscar Wilde
Happiness can only be found within, by breaking attachments to external things and cultivating an attitude of acceptance. -- Jonathan Haidt
A city is not adorned by external things, but by the virtue of those who dwell in it. -- Epictetus
The more that all of the external things began to materialize, the less the internal things began to crystallize. -- Mike Huckabee
The purpose of art is to represent the meaning of things. This represents the true reality, not external aspects. -- Aristotle
God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so. -- Plotinus
Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him. -- Blaise Pascal
Plan from your internal or spiritual view of things. The external view always has a way of distorting, discouraging and limiting your dream. -- Archibald Marwizi
Start planning from your internal or spiritual view of things. The external view always has a way of distorting, discouraging and limiting your dream. -- Archibald Marwizi
By losing my external things, I found myself. I found something very powerful, very permanent, that I could have with me all the time. -- Isha Judd
Physical condition or advancing of age are not obstacles to a perfect life. God does not look at external things but at the soul. -- Pope John Paul II
All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in external things and in the future as a substitute for the joy of Being. -- Eckhart Tolle
All things are symbols: the external shows Of Nature have their image in the mind , As flowers and fruits and falling of the leaves. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It is not possible to control all external events; But, if I simply control my mind what need is there to control other things? -- Shantideva
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. -- William James
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. -- Eckhart Tolle
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. -- Epictetus
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
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
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. -- Constantin Brancusi
In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact. -- Jean Piaget
Meditation turns from its purgatory role to recognize in self-knowledge and in the mind's images of the external world the general essences in which all things have their being. -- R.W. Southern
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. -- Meister Eckhart
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. -- Sri Aurobindo
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. -- Gautama Buddha
Happiness always has an object... Depends on external things. Joy... Has no object. It seizes you for no apparent reason, it's like the sun, its burning is fueled by its own heart. -- Susanna Tamaro
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. -- Marcus Aurelius
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. -- Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
Happiness does not come from external things as we're really taught as children. It doesn't come from Santa Claus. Happiness is from within your mind. Just realizing that will change your whole life. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

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