External world Quote by Susan L. Taylor

The demands of internal growth are incomparably more important to us...than the need for any external expansion of our power.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

We need to exert ourselves that much more, and break out of the vicious cycle of dependence imposed on us by the financially powerful:…

— Nelson Mandela

We try to fix the outside so much, but our control of the outer world is limited, temporary, and often, illusory.

— Matthieu Ricard

The more power that we have, the less human we are.

— Joss Whedon

We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a life-style that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable…

— Margaret Mead

“Our ability to influence the world is directly proportional to our knack for managing our own lives,”

— Robert J. Morgan

The message we have internalized is clear - we are what we do and what we own, not what we are inside ourselves. Where…

— Joan D. Chittister

The more you live by external shoulds, the farther you drift from the power inherent in your own spirit.

— Alan Cohen

This is nourishing, redemptive we become less alone inside.

— David Foster Wallace

The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that…

— William Wordsworth

“When we better ourselves we are improving our world!”

— Isa Zapata

The more we nurture the planet, the better and more natural a life we'll have.

— Chris d'Lacey