External Quotes

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From what has been said we can clearly understand the nature of Love and Hate. Love is nothing else but pleasure accompanied by the idea… — Baruch Spinoza
External instruments are only extensions of the biological instrument. — Yusef Lateef
Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar ideology and the… — Hannah Arendt
Men are so accustomed to maintaining external order by violence that they cannot conceive of life being possible without violence. — Leo Tolstoy
Every man is to be respected as an absolute end in himself; and it is a crime against the dignity that belongs to him as… — Immanuel Kant
A truly free society must not include a peace which oppresses us. We must learn on our own terms what peace and freedom mean together.… — Petra Kelly
To know oneself is the first step toward making flow a part of one's entire life. But just as there is no free lunch in… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Lateral thinking is concerned not with playing with the existing pieces but with seeking to change those very pieces. It is concerned with the perception… — Edward de Bono
The more we refuse to buy into our inner critics - and our external ones too - the easier it will get to have confidence… — Arianna Huffington
Worship is not an external activity precipitated by the right environment. To worship in spirit is to draw near to God with an undivided heart.… — Erwin W. Lutzer
When you're experiencing peace, it's coming from within you; you're 'doing' peace and this is true of anything else you might be looking for. Love,… — Cheri Huber
True happiness is when the love that is within us finds expression in external activities. — Mata Amritanandamayi
We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them. — Epictetus
Nothing is more fleeting than external form, which withers and alters like the flowers of the field at the appearance of autumn. — Umberto Eco
The reality of living by faith as though we were already dead, of living by faith in open communion with God, and then stepped back… — Francis Schaeffer
Don't let your fears overwhelm your desire. Let the barriers you face-and there will be barriers-be external, not internal. Fortune does favor the bold, and… — Sheryl Sandberg
For truly, the greatest of all external blessings is it to be able to lean your heart against another heart, faithful, tender, true, and tried,… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
The friend who cares makes it clear that whatever happens in the external world, being present to each other is what really matters. In fact,… — Henri Nouwen
Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power… — Og Mandino
A new species develops if a population which has become geographically isolated from its parental species acquires during this period of isolation characters which promote… — Ernst Mayr

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