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Quotes About Internal

Fifty years of internal damage done by the time-self is healed instantaneously by the entrance of the eternal self.
~ Vernon Howard
Have no fear of robbers or murderers. They are external dangers, petty dangers. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices the real murders. The great dangers are within us. Why worry about what threatens our heads or purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls.
~ Victor Hugo
The best way I have ever found to fill that hole is not to seek external motivations to fill the emptiness, but to ignite the internal fire that will never go out. To light up my own inner sky.
~ James Altucher
Police internal affairs are in the business of protecting corrupt and incompetent police officers from prosecution due to the extensive range of laws that they have blatantly broken.
~ Steven Magee
He said, aloud, 'The external world is the world of shadows. It throws its shadows into the kingdom of light. How different they will appear when this darkness is gone and the shadow-body has passed away. The universe, after all, is within us. The way leads inward, always inwards.
~ Penelope Fitzgerald
When I look at those years I look at them alone. What happened there happens now only inside my head - no one else sees the same landscape, hears the same sounds, knows the sequence of events. There is another voice, but it is one that only I hear. Mine - ours - is the only evidence.
~ Penelope Lively
The opposite of love is evil. You stupid human beings, the whole thing is right in front of you, but on you go, debating whether evil is internal or external, inherent in everyone or created by circumstance...The world is not divided into two. You have evil within you, you contain evil, that's the basic idea. When you open the door, what do you get, the lady or the tiger? Whoops, sorry, you get both, because the lady is the tiger. Doity Toid to the Eel
~ Unknown
Ironically enough, although externally corporations brutally compete in the free market, their internal workings rely not on market forces, but on group solidarity!
~ Peter Turchin
The best teachers seem to acknowledge the conflict between their vocations, reach some kind of internal compromise, and go on.
~ David Foster Wallace
The police. The eye and the arm of the government in all matters pertaining to internal order, the police are obviously a key factor in the early stages of an insurgency; they are the first counterinsurgent organization that has to be infiltrated and neutralized.
~ Unknown
When one group unites its power, those nearby must ally for protection. Then, there's a scramble for more power, while jealousies and fears breed new hatreds, internally and externally. And finally, there's ruin
~ David Gerrold
You're quiet." "Not in my head. Never in my head.
~ David Levithan
I take it back." 'But the thing was: She didn't sound certain. I let her take it back anyway. The only problem was taking something back? It's still inside there somewhere.
~ David Levithan
you shouldn't make decisions based on the internal state of an object and then update that object.
~ David Thomas
For evil from within is but evil from within that has been let out
~ Yann Martel
If novelists know anything it's that individual citizens are internally plural: they have within them the full range of behavioral possibilities. They are like complex musical scores from which certain melodies can be teased out and others ignored or suppressed, depending, at least in part, on who is doing the conducting.
~ Zadie Smith
She found that she had a host of thoughts she had never expressed to him, and numerous emotions she had never let Jody know about. Things packed up and put away in parts of her heart where he could never find them. She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen. She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
Freedom, she wrote in Moses, Man of the Mountain, "was something internal…. The man himself must make his own emancipation." And she declared her first novel a manifesto against the "arrogance" of whites assuming that "black lives are only defensive reactions to white actions." Her strategy was not calculated to please.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
He had found out that no man may make another free. Freedom was something internal. The outside signs were just signs and symbols of the man inside. All you could do was to give the opportunity for freedom and the man himself must make his own emancipation.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
Starbucks was under attack, mostly from within.
~ Howard Schultz
Reason is not some external power which dictates how we should behave, but an internal power, integral to who we are ... Reason does not command that we love anyone. Nonetheless, reason is vital in determining whom we love and why we love them.
~ Unknown
Si alguien dice: "no seas codicioso, sé generoso" debes interpretar internamente que así desarrollarás una codicia por la generosidad.
~ Idries Shah
no el mucho saber harta y satisface al ánima, mas el sentir y gusta de las cosas internamente.
~ Unknown
Recognizing Nothing as one's true nature, following the guidance of our conscience - having a clear distinction between absolute and relative values, and using the Earth as the external absolute scale that matches the internal absolute truthfulness.
~ Ilchi Lee