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Quotes About External

Las formas han cambiado a través de los siglos obedeciendo al mundo externo al cual toda forma pertenece.
~ Idries Shah
There is a serious discrepancy between what we really wants, and what we usually do to get what we think we want. What we really want is to fill the hole inside and become complete, and what we do is look for success and growth outside.
~ Ilchi Lee
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
the key insight for now is that we will miss Jesus' solution if we follow some narrative that pushes everything out toward external blame. Such a narrative is like a faulty sign pointing us away from Jesus because his acceptance of us takes place inside us—it doesn't happen "out there.
~ Unknown
Fleetwood Mac has been pretty truthful. Open about what we do. We've always done it from the inside out. Versus being pressured from the outside and changing the inside. And that's our story.
~ Mick Fleetwood
I try to write about internal experience versus the external self. I like to present ideas, but not package them neatly.
~ Rebecca Stead
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
Often, though, people carry around the belief that the majority of their problems are circumstantial or situational—which is to say, external. And if the problems are caused by everyone and everything else, by stuff out there, why should they bother to change themselves?
~ Lori Gottlieb
The world Michael Laski had constructed for himself was one of labyrinthine intricacy and immaculate clarity, a world made meaningful not only by high purpose but by external and internal threats, intrigues and apparatus, an immutably ordered world in which things mattered.
~ Joan Didion
They will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is written, calling things to remembrance no longer from within themselves, but by means of external marks.
~ Joanne Harris
When you're pregnant, you can think of nothing but having your own body to yourself again; yet after giving birth you realize that the biggest part of you is now somehow external...
~ Jodi Picoult
Betrayal is about learning not to idealize external sources.
~ Unknown
He who seeks for applause only from without has all his happiness in another's keeping.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
To get help from without, extract the good where you can find it. And this starts from within: the right mental attitude toward persons, places, things, knowledge, customs, beliefs-be they your own or others.
~ W. Clement Stone
An undesirable society, in other words, is one which internally and externally sets up barriers to free intercourse and communication of experience.
~ John Dewey
Grace comes from outside, as a gift and not an achievement.
~ Philip Yancey
O dear Pan and all the other gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful inside. Let all my external possessions be in friendly harmony with what is within. May I consider the wise man rich. As for gold, let me have as much as a moderate man could bear and carry with him.
~ Plato
And things which are at their best are also least liable to be altered or discomposed; for example, when healthiest and strongest, the human frame is least liable to be affected by meats and drinks, and the plant which is in the fullest vigor also suffers least from winds or the heat of the sun or any similar causes. -Of course. -And will not the bravest and wisest soul be least confused or deranged by any external influence? -True.
~ Plato
For the body which is moved from without is soulless; but that which is moved from within has a soul... (Tr. Jowett)
~ Plato
O beloved Pan and all ye other gods of this place, grant to me that I be made beautiful in my soul within, and that all external possessions be in harmony with my inner man. May I consider the wise man rich; and may I have such wealth as only the self-restrained man can bear or endure.
~ Plato
First, it is a mistake to presume to know anyone's internal emotional landscape based on what external emotional signals they seem to be sending. Second, you can apologize for something you have done, but only a fool apologizes for things that other people have done, for he has no authority to do that.
~ Dean Koontz
You're not going to be dreary on the inside if you're not dreary on the outside.
~ Alexandra Stoddard
Confucius himself has repeatedly taught that external appurtenances are as little a part of propriety as sounds are of music.
~ Inazo Nitobe
A subversive associate constantly listens to tapes from external ministers and learns from them. But he never listens to his own head pastor's tapes.
~ Dag Heward-Mills