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All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it… — Wayne Dyer
Man is a machine which reacts blindly to external forces and, this being so, he has no will, and very little control of himself, if… — P D Ouspensky
Human nature is so constituted that the propensity for evil is always intensified by external circumstances, and the morality of the individual depends much more… — Mikhail Bakunin
Happiness always has an object... Depends on external things. Joy... Has no object. It seizes you for no apparent reason, it's like the sun, its… — Susanna Tamaro
[Man] is the only animal who lives outside of himself, whose drive is in external thingsâ€”property, houses, money, concepts of power. He lives in his… — John Steinbeck
The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting… — Marcel Duchamp
A great nation is not saved by wars, it is saved by acts without external picturesqueness; by speaking, writing, voting reasonably; by smiting corruption swiftly;… — William James
There is but one way to tranquility of mind and happiness, and that is to account no external things thine own, but to commit all… — Epictetus
Our spirits have their own private way of understanding each other, of becoming intimate, while our external persons are still trapped in the commerce of… — Luigi Pirandello
Art begins when a man, with a purpose of communicating to other people a feeling he once experienced, calls it up again within himself and… — Leo Tolstoy
Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest this divinity by controlling nature, external and internal. Do this either by work, or worship,… — Swami Vivekananda
If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.… — James Madison
You know yourself what you are worth in your own eyes; and at what price you will sell yourself. For men sell themselves at various… — Epictetus
Properly speaking, the unconscious is the real psychic; its inner nature is just as unknown to us as the reality of the external world, and… — Sigmund Freud
When a man sees a dying animal, horror comes over him: that which he himself is, his essence, is obviously being annihilated before his eyes--is… — Leo Tolstoy
Human skin is porous; the world flows through you. Your senses are large pores that let the world in. By being attuned to the wisdom… — John O'Donohue
One can never really give a proof of the reality of anything; reality is not something open to proof, it is something established. It is… — Simone Weil
We need limitations and temptations to open our inner selves, dispel our ignorance, tear off disguises, throw down old idols, and destroy false standards. Only… — Helen Keller
Inner peace is the key: if you have inner peace, the external problems do not affect your deep sense of peace and tranquility...without this inner… — Dalai Lama
External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him. No wind that blew was bitterer than… — Charles Dickens

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