External Quotes

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The finer is always the cause, the grosser the effect. So the external world is the effect, the internal the cause. — Swami Vivekananda
Architecture enable you to accommodate complexity and change. If you don't have Enterprise Architecture, your enterprise is not going to be viable in a increasingly… — John Zachman
...Force yourself to use the optimist's explanatory style: 'The situation is temporary. The effect will be limited, not pervasive. And it's due to external causes.'… — Price Pritchett
Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without. It can be argued that peace and happiness comes from the subjective internalised perspective of realizing… — Gautama Buddha
There are two main strategies we can try to improve the quality of life. The first is to try making external conditions match our goals.… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Principles are natural laws that are external to us and that ultimately control the consequences of our actions. Values are internal and subjective and represent… — Stephen Covey
How often has not the parallel been drawn and the golden age of the Roman Empire, when the external brilliancy of life likewise dazzled the… — Abraham Kuyper
My God, since you are with me and since, by Your will, I must occupy myself with external things, please grant me the grace to… — Brother Lawrence
The nation demands a movement which has written upon its banner the internal and external national freedom that it will act as if it were… — Franz von Papen
It is impossible, Bible in hand, to limit Christ's Church to one's own little community. It is everywhere, in all parts of the world; and… — Abraham Kuyper
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… — James Altucher
The insane do not share the normal prejudice in favor of external reality. — Norman O. Brown
If someone remains in a peaceful and tranquil state of mind, external surroundings can cause them only a limited disturbance. — Dalai Lama
The battle is lost or won in the secret places of the will before God, never first in the external world. — Oswald Chambers
Lay your wishes aside for a spell, and look deep into what you believe about yourself. Make sure your beliefs about your own life are… — Elizabeth Gilbert
There are only two possible forms of control: one internal and the other external; religious control and political control. They are of such a nature… — Juan Donoso Cortes
The great purpose of school can be realized better in dark, airless, ugly places ... It is to master the physical self, to transcend the… — William Torrey Harris
And yet you see the weakness of external evidence-and outward miracles; they were not sufficient to make true believers, or to make the Israelites believe… — Elias Hicks
Our Creator has given us five senses to help us survive threats from the external world, and a sixth sense, our healing system, to help… — Bernie Siegel
Freedom is a need of the soul, and nothing else. It is in striving toward God that the soul strives continually after a condition of… — Whittaker Chambers

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