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"You're dealing with the demon of external validation. You can't beat external validation. You want to know why Because it feels sooo good." »Barbara Hall
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"I don't need external motivation. I can generate my own." »Vikram Mahant
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"Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities." »William Bridges
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"The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things." »Epictetus
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"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment." »Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it and this you have the power to revoke at any moment." »Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it and this you have the power to revoke at any moment." »Marcus Aelius Aurelius
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"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment." »Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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"Knowledge always desires increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterward propagate it." »Johnson
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"The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers." »Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist." »Diogenes Laertius, Zeno
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"When one's ill or unhappy, one needs something outside oneself to hold one up. It is a good thing, I think, when one has been knocked out of one's balance . to have some external job or duty to hang on to." »Aldous Huxley
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"Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world." »Albert Einstein
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"Compassion and love are not mere luxuries. As the source of both inner and external peace, they are fundamental to the continued survival of our species." »Dalai Lama, The Times (1999)
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"...for no man lives in the external truth among salts and acids, but in the warm, phantasmagoric chamber of his brain, with the painted windows and the storied wall." »Robert Louis Stevenson
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"Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the part of the quoter, and a blessing to a public grown superficial and external." »Louise Guiney
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"The most dangerous aspect of present-day life is the dissolution of the feeling of individual responsibility. Mass solitude has done away with any difference between the internal and the external, between the intellectual and the physical." »Eugenio Montale
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"No two people see the external world in exactly the same way. To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is -- in other words, not a thing, but a think." »Penelope Fitzgerald
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"Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations." »Herbert Spencer
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"Motivation is an external, temporary high that PUSHES you forward. Inspiration is a sustainable internal glow which PULLS you forward." »Thomas Leonard
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"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 its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act." »Marcel Duchamp
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""Know thyself," said the old philosopher, "improve thyself," saith the new. Our great object in time is not to waste our passions and gifts on the things external that we must leave behind, but that we cultivate within us all that we can carry into the eternal progress beyond." »Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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"For this invention of yours will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn it, by causing them to neglect their memory, inasmuch as, from their confidence in writing, they will recollect by the external aid of foreign symbols, and not by the internal use of their own faculties. Your discovery, therefore, is a medicine not for memory, but for recollection-for recalling to, not for keeping in mind." »Plato
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"While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, He who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion Let nature take its course. By letting each thing act in accordance with its own nature, everything that needs to be done gets done." »Lao Tzu
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"Therefore, be ye lamps unto yourselves, be a refuge to yourselves. Hold fast to Truth as a lamp; hold fast to the truth as a refuge. Look not for a refuge in anyone beside yourselves. And those, who shall be a lamp unto themselves, shall betake themselves to no external refuge, but holding fast to the Truth as their lamp, and holding fast to the Truth as their refuge, they shall reach the topmost height." »Buddha
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