Quotes About Internal

M'importava assai poco che l'accordo ottenuto fosse esteriore, imposto, probabilmente temporaneo; sapevo che il bene e il male sono una questione d'abitudine, che il temporaneo si prolunga, che le cose esterne penetrano all'interno, e che la maschera, a lungo andare, diventa il volto.

People are not perfect—that is, they do not yet express externally their internal perfection.

Political manifestations, both good and bad, are but outer reflections of internal realities.

We're not being stopped by something on the outside, but by something on the inside.

Political manifestations, both good and bad, are but outer reflections of internal realities. They emerge from realms beyond what the eye can see.

So long as she is obedient to a mother—actual or internal—who unconsciously wishes to annihilate her, she is in a state of possession by the witch; she will have to differentiate herself out from that witch in order to live her own life.

like when you wake up at night, and the only sounds you hear are the sounds inside your head.

Recuerde que su conducta resulta de su estado, y que éste resulta de sus representaciones internas y de su fisiología, cosas ambas que puede usted cambiar en cuestión de instantes.

The ultimate significance in life comes not from something external but from something internal. It comes from a sense of esteem for ourselves, which is not something we can ever get from someone else. People

More important, the level of success you experience internally—the happiness, joy, ecstasy, love, or anything else you desire—is the direct result of how you communicate to yourself. How you feel is not the result of what is happening in your life—it is your interpretation of what is happening. Successful people's lives have shown us over and over again that the quality of our lives is determined not by what happens to us, but rather by what we do about what happens.

It should never be forgotten that, in the struggle between the nations, it is in the interest of each one of them that the other should be weakened by internal struggle. Hence it is always possible to pose the question of whether the parties exist by virtue of their own strength, as their own necessity, or whether rather they only exist to serve the interests of others.

Bad people...are in conflict with themselves; they desire one thing and will another, like the incontinent who choose harmful pleasures instead of what they themselves believe to be good.

You, calling yourself a reasonable man, are going about dependent for your happiness, dignity, and growth, upon a thousand things over which you have no control, and the most exquisitely organised machine for ensuring happiness, dignity, and growth, is rusting away inside you.

If we throw a crystal to the floor, it breaks; but not into hap-hazard pieces. It comes apart along its lines of cleavage into fragments whose boundaries, thought they were invisible, were predetermined by the crystal's structure. Mental paitents are split and broken structures of this same kind.... They have turned away from external reality, but for that very reason they know more about internal, physical reality...

Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating in us.

The delusions of paranoiacs have an unpalatable external similarity and internal kinship to the systems of our philosophers.

La totalidad de las fuentes oníricas puede dividirse en cuatro especies; división que ha servido también de base para clasificar los sueños: 1. Estímulo sensorial externo (objetivo). 2. Estímulo sensorial interno (subjetivo). 3. Estímulo somático interno (orgánico). 4. Fuentes de estímulo puramente psíquicas.

Here we may be assisted by the idea that a defence against an unwelcome internal process will be modelled upon the defence adopted against an external stimulus, that the ego wards off internal and external dangers alike along identical lines.

T]he ego has to try from the very outset to fulfil its task of mediating between its id and the external world in the service of the pleasure principle, and to protect the id from the dangers of the external world. [...] Thereafter, under the influence of education, the ego grows accustomed to removing the scene of the fight from outside to within and to mastering the internal danger before it has become an external one; and probably it is most often right in doing so.

My voice is clotted with unshed tears.

I feel scalded inside. Like, third-degree burns. But no one can see them. (Fliss talking about her divorce.)

inside me I'm dying

When our internal reference point is the ego or self-image, we feel cut off from our source, and the uncertainty of events creates fear and doubt.

Of course I contradict myself. Why else would hold things in and put the fire out?