The ultimate definition of success is: you could lose everything that you have and truly be okay with it. Your happiness isn't based on external factors.
Happiness doesn't come from external circumstances. It comes from the inside-regardless of what is happening around us.
Beliefs are the determinants of what one experiences. There are no external 'causes. '
Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions. Vigilantly practice polite indifference to that which we can't control. Your happiness can only be found within.
From a purely external point of view there is no will; and to find will in any phenomenon requires a certain empathy; we observe aman's actions and place ourselves partly but not wholly in his position; or we act, and place ourselves partly in the position of an outsider.
Sensation is not the conduction of a quality or state of external bodies to consciousness, but the conduction of a quality or state of our nerves to consciousness, excited by an external cause.
One of the most arrogant undertakings, to my mind, is to write the biography of a man which pretends to go beyond external facts and gives the inmost motives. One of the most mendacious is autobiography.
Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so. The only chance is to treat not happiness, but some end external to it, as the purpose of life.
[Albert Camus] wasn't writing under the influence of the Nobel Prize. That was an external thing for the artist in him.
External silence can be the doorway to inner silence.
No book that is written for an external purpose is going to be a passionately felt book for the writer or the reader. I don't see the point in doing that.
There is nothing outside of us that is not at the same time in us, and as the external world has its colors the eye, too, has colors.
While we see democracy coming to the Arab world, democracy is getting weaker in Israel. Democracy is in jeopardy in Israel, and this threat is greater than the external threat.
The idea is that that there is no such thing as an external enemy.
You're a unique person. You should do what you're suited to do. We all should. It's the only way to be happy. That pressure is all outside. It's external.
For centuries, we in the West have thought of ourselves as rational animals whose mental capacities transcend our bodily nature. In this traditional view our minds are abstract, logical, unemotionally rational, consciously accessible, and, above all, able to directly fit and represent the world. Language has a special place in thie view of what a human is - it is a privileged, logical symbol system internal to our minds that transparently expresses abstract concepts that are defined in terms of the external world itself.
The law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race.
If we really want to achieve true prayer, we must turn our backs upon everything temporal, everything external, everything that is not divine.
Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can't separate them.
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 expresses it by certain external signs.