External Quotes

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Our minds are susceptible to the influence of external voices telling us what we require to be satisfied, voices that may drown out the faint… — Alain de Botton
Even books are nurses, medicines are nurses. But we must work to bring about the time when man shall recognise his mastery over his own… — Swami Vivekananda
I work for perfection, for perfection's sake. I don't care what the external reasons are. And it's much more like a ballerina on opening night.… — Story Musgrave
Wouldn't it be wonderful if you could spare them from all suffering? No, it wouldn't. They would not evolve as human beings and would remain… — Eckhart Tolle
The person must give himself an external sphere of freedom in order to have being as Idea. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
People tend to measure themselves by external accomplishments, but jail allows a person to focus on internal ones; such as honesty, sincerity, simplicity, humility, generosity… — Nelson Mandela
If we really want to achieve true prayer, we must turn our backs upon everything temporal, everything external, everything that is not divine. — Johannes Tauler
I think people try to make the most of their time on earth and also to fix their time on earth. They try to fix… — Mary Gaitskill
Organisms are not billiard balls, propelled by simple and measurable external forces to predictable new positions on life's pool table. Sufficiently complex systems have greater… — Stephen Jay Gould
All our science calculates with abstracted individual external marks, which do not touch the inner existence of any single thing — Johann Gottfried Herder
My work speaks of the finite and the infinite, of the macroscopic and the microscopic, the internal and external, by the masculine and feminine powers,… — Ernesto Neto
There is no external solution to the problem of insecurity. — Stefan Molyneux
Many people don't realise until they are on their deathbed and everything external falls away that no thing ever had anything to do with who… — Eckhart Tolle
Music to me is so internal. It's physical and it's emotional. Whereas fashion is so much about the external that it's almost like a break.… — Florence Welch
There can never be two or more equivalent electrons in an atom, for which in a strong field the values of all the quantum numbers… — Wolfgang Pauli
The animal world being altogether external to the scheme of redemption, was regarded as beyond the range of duty, and the belief that we have… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky
While it is tempting to believe that you are the victim of certain people or forces beyond your control, A Course in Miracles teaches you… — Marianne Williamson
Becoming internally empowered shifts a person's center of gravity from external to internal- a mark of spiritual passage. — Caroline Myss
When teachers are forced to teach to the test, students get bored and genuine education ceases, no matter what the test scores may sayâ€¦ The… — Myron Tribus
Because of your belief in external things you think power into them by transferring the power that you are to the external thing. Realize you… — Neville Goddard

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