Quotes About External

I knew that good like bad becomes a routine, that the temporary tends to endure, that what is external permeates to the inside, and that the mask, given time, comes to be the face itself.

It would be difficult to ignore the impression that there exists a connection of some sort between creativity and solitude, that creativity commonly involves a more or less prolonged retraction of psychic energies from the external world.

Freedom is not only the absence of external restraints. It is also the absence of irresistible internal compulsions, unmanageable passion, and uncensorable highlights.

The vast majority of our imports come from outside the country.

True Freedom Is An Inner Thing. It Is A State Of Mind. It Is A Deliberate Exercise Of Choice. Thus, If We Think We Are Bound By An External Forces, We Are Deceiving Ourselves.

True Freedom Is An Inner Thing. It Is A State Of Mind. It Is A Deliberate Exercise Of Choice. Thus, If We Think We Are Bound By External Forces, We Are Deceiving Ourselves.

In order to change conditions outside ourselves, whether they concern the environment or relations with others, we must first change within ourselves.

When external sources of power are sought in personal relationships to overcome inner feelings of powerlessness, power comes not from a place of strength but from a place of weakness. This can only lead to trouble. Using

Do not let your adorning be external...the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear, 4 but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in Gods sight is very precious. -1 Peter 3:3-5

We think we control our environment but in fact it controls us. We think our external environment is conspiring in our favor—that is, helping us—when actually it is taxing and draining us. It is not interested in what it can give us. It's only interested in what it can take from us.

It's not about you. It's about what other people think of you.

The second difference between the introvert and the extrovert is how they experience external stimulation. Extroverts like to experience a lot, and introverts like to know a lot about what they experience.

Hence every external worship and religion is dregs, which alone are left to be drunk by those who by it exalt themselves over others.

When the external actions of a company align with its internal culture, the brand resonates with authenticity.

It was, Polybius argued, such balances across the political system that produced the internal stability on which Roman external success was built.

Oh 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.

how sex roles are determined by the forces around us rather than our genes.

In a future time when most human thought has been accelerated by artificial intelligence and external memory can be shared on a universal matrix... GITS 2

There is no way to get everything in life: You either cultivate your own reason and give precedence to virtue above all else, or you desperately go after externals. You will either give priority to things within you, or to those outside of you. There is a trade-off, and you have to decide which way to go.

De lo existente, unas cosas dependen de nosotros; otras no dependen de nosotros. De nosotros dependen el juicio, el impulso, el deseo, el rechazo y, en una palabra, cuanto es asunto nuestro. Y no dependen de nosotros el cuerpo, la hacienda, la reputación, los cargos y, en una palabra, cuanto no es asunto nuestro.» Epicteto, Manual de vida,

What you conquer within you conquer without.

what we consider to be the most successful route for us to take, actually isn't. Because too often our view of success is about some external bullshit idea of achievement – an Olympic medal, the ideal husband, a good salary. And we have all these metrics that we try and reach. When really success isn't something you measure, and life isn't a race you can win. It's all . . . bollocks, actually . . .

Actually, depression can be exacerbated by things being all right externally, because the gulf between what you are feeling and what you are expected to feel becomes larger.

It's not you. It's them. (No, really. It is.)