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Quotes About Internal

It is our own evil thoughts which madden us.
~ Cicero
but we have all been branded, even if you can't see it - inside, if not without.
~ Colson Whitehead
Their opinion: If at the cost of going backwards internally, he restores Germany's power externally, then this cost is worth while. Conditions at home can always be made good later – politics is just not a clean business. [. . .]
~ Victor Klemperer
notion that experiencing can be as valuable as achieving is therapeutic because it compensates for our one-sided emphasis on the external world of achievement at the expense of the internal world of experience."6
~ Viktor E. Frankl
Et tacitum vivit sub pectore vulnus...
~ Virgil
Nothing exists outside of us except a state of mind...
~ Virginia Woolf
One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
~ Lao Tzu
mobs were the worst of our guts strangling our hearts.
~ Laura Anne Gilman
She tries to wear her pain on the inside. She always has. It's the trademark of the oldest sibling, I think.
~ Laura Miller
Frankie put her hand to her middle again. I remembered doing that, remembered when the feelings were so strong they turned your insides to a frothing stew" -Guardian
~ Laura Ruby
Things are screaming inside me and my eyes feel hot.
~ Lauren Slater
The True Way is the external face of internal knowledge, known as Essence. The inner factor does not change. The whole work therefore, is the Essence. What you are pleased to call the Way of the Masters is merely the record of past method.
~ Laurence Galian
The rush of things she wanted to say churned in her head.
~ Celeste Ng
And while it's easy to say this is a situation to be avoided, isn't this what we also fear and crave simultaneously, that some internal force which defies understanding might remake us into the people we dream we are?
~ Chang-Rae Lee
What am I doing? Tearing myself. My usual occupation at most times.
~ Charles Dickens
The contention came, after all, to this - the secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away.
~ Charles Dickens
Our worst pain is confined within our own skin.
~ Charles Frazier
Jealousy is vengeful — not to its target but to ourselves.
~ Terri Guillemets
Life doesn't hand out ribbons for best-lived. It's an internal decoration.
~ Terri Guillemets
It was a very familiar feeling for Rimmer - the horrible slow dawning, the internal denials, the frantic mental search for someone else to blame, the gradual acceptance that, once again, he'd done something so unspeakably asinine it would live with him for the rest of his days, lurking in the horror pit of his mind along with nine or ten other monstrous ineptitudes that screamed and railed there, never allowing him to forget them.
~ Grant Naylor
Although he kept up his contentious front, Tommy Giacondia was gone on the inside, rendered totally harmless.
~ Gregg Hurwitz
Your joys and sorrows. You can never tell them. You cheapen the inside of yourself if you do tell them.
~ Greta Garbo
When studying the world's religions, there appear to be two primary paths available to those who want to practice their faith. One path is internal and contemplative in nature. The other is emotional, external, and actionable in nature. I have identified these as the paths of oneness and goodness.
~ Gudjon Bergmann
Forgiveness is probably the most important self-esteem building process anyone can undertake. Forgiveness is an internal response to the fact that we cannot, under any circumstances, change the past. The only things we can change are our thoughts about the past. Forgiveness happens when we stop wishing for a better past and understand that we are carrying hatred, anger and resentment within us.
~ Gudjon Bergmann