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896 quotes by 617 authors

One can give or withhold in a manner far more effective, sophisticated, useful, which is quite invisible to people who think that giving or withholding… — Idries Shah
The reward of running â€” of anything â€” lies within us â€¦ We focus on something external to motivate us, but we need to remember… — Scott Jurek
Meditation is a journey without movement. In the external world you have to move in order to go ahead, in meditation you don't move, yet… — Rama Swami
Community cannot take root in a divided life. Long before community assumes external shape and form, it must be present as seed in the undivided… — Parker J. Palmer
Dedication to goodness-dedication in response to an inner moral mandate rather than external restraint-was both the antidote to the pain and the source of great… — Sylvia Boorstein
Grace is within you. If it were external, it would be useless. — Ramana Maharshi
I see little alteration at Lyons since I formerly passed through it. Its manufactories are, nevertheless, flourishing, though less improvement than could be expected is… — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
The intellectual is not defined by professional group and type of occupation. Nor are good upbringing and a good family enough in themselves to produce… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Our health is our sound relation to external objects; our sympathy with external being. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Churches are more prosperous than at any time within the past several hundred years. But the alarming thing is that our gains are mostly external… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
RIE emphasizes the benefits of infants spending peaceful, uninterrupted time following their biological rhythms of falling asleep when sleepy and eating when hungry, rather than… — Magda Gerber
The biggest (and hardest) lesson I've learned in life is that the external world is just a reflection of the world within. — Tony Hsieh
The ultimate definition of success is: you could lose everything that you have and truly be okay with it. Your happiness isn't based on external… — Tony Hsieh
It is true that water will flow indifferently to east and west, but will it flow equally well up and down? Human nature is disposed… — Mencius
You have, like the external world, your own phenomena inside. — Saul Bellow
When the reality of power has been surrendered, it's playing a dangerous game to seek to retain the appearance of it; the external aspect of… — Alexis de Tocqueville
To abandon the principle of simplicity would be to abandon all reasoning about the external world — Jim Holt
Keep your attention internal, not external, not worrying about what others see, but what the Self sees. — B.K.S. Iyengar
A scientist sets out to conquer nature through knowledge - external nature, external knowledge. By these means he may split the atom and achieve external… — B.K.S. Iyengar
Left to itself the masculine imagination has very little appreciation for the here and now; it prefers to dwell on what is absent, on what… — Wystan Hugh Auden

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