External Quotes

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It was good, really, that this external world still existed, if only as a place of refuge. — Patrick SÃ¼skind
Evil is nothing but a word, an objectification where no objectification is necessary. Cast aside this notion of some external agency as the source of… — Steven Erikson
One is not struck by the truth until prompted quite accidentally by some external event. — Kazuo Ishiguro
As long as we remain vigilant at building our internal abundanceâ€”an abundance of integrity, an abundance of forgiveness, an abundance of service, an abundance of… — Marianne Williamson
The rule of law bakes no bread, it is unable to distribute loaves or fishes (it has none), and it cannot protect itself against external… — Michael Joseph Oakeshott
To overcome the anxieties and depressions of contemporary life, individuals must become independent of the social environment to the degree that they no longer respond… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The dream is the liberation of the spirit from the pressure of external nature, a detachment of the soul from the fetters of matter. — Sigmund Freud
Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional. It has no power to represent anything particular or external, but it has… — Oliver Sacks
I think instead [of happiness] we should be working for contentment... an inner sense of fulfillment that's relatively independent of external circumstances. — Andrew Weil
Without a heart transformed by the grace of Christ, we just continue to manage external and internal darkness. — Matt Chandler
Love happened. She would have never thought that it could happen so rapidly. Love was something you worked at, and she had no doubt their… — Maya Banks
The whole sphere of air that surrounds us, Alma, is alive with invisible attractions â€” electric, magnetic, fiery and thoughtful. There is a universal sympathy… — Elizabeth Gilbert
In a narcissistic cathexis, you invest more energy into your ideas about another person than in the actual, objective, external person. So the man who… — Alison Bechdel
Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature, highly uncertain, precarious,… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Internal and external are ultimately one. When you no longer perceive the world as hostile, there is no more fear, and when there is no… — Eckhart Tolle
We all go through life bristling at our external limitations, but the most difficult chains to break are inside us. — Bradley Whitford
Casey Maddox wrote that when philosophy dies, action begins. I would say in addition that when we stop hoping for external assistance, when we stop… — Derrick Jensen
In the scale of life there is a gradual decline in physical variability, as the organism has gathered into itself resources for meeting the exigencies… — Chauncey Wright
Knowledge always desires increase, it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterwards propagate itself. — Samuel Johnson
According to the technical language of old writers, a thing and its qualities are described as subject and attributes; and thus a man's faculties and… — William Whewell

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