It is to them [fossils] alone that we owe the commencement of even a Theory of the Earth. . . By them we are enabled to ascertain, with the utmost certainty, that our earth has not always been covered over by the same external crust, because we are thoroughly assured that the organized bodies to which these fossil remains belong must have lived upon the surface before they came to be buried, as they now are, at a great depth.
Dedication to goodness-dedication in response to an inner moral mandate rather than external restraint-was both the antidote to the pain and the source of great happiness.
Organizations are now confronted with two sources of change: the traditional type that is initiated and managed; and external changes over which no one has control.
Most of the reason I work out now is not for the external - it's for how I feel. I find working out gives me more energy. I started eight days after he was born.
My dream for Israel is peace, external and internal peace. I want Israel to live in peace with its neighbors and in peace with itself.
My definition of confidence is how you feel about yourself, and not letting the external world define you.
If someone remains in a peaceful and tranquil state of mind, external surroundings can cause them only a limited disturbance.
It is not necessary to meet your guru on the physical plane. The guru is not external.
Be the same still mountain self and mountain peace no matter what the external conditions.
It is a sin directly against one's neighbour, since one man cannot over-abound in external riches, without another man lacking them.
Ifit be a thing external that causes thy grief, know, that it is not that properly that doth cause it, but thine own conceit and opinion concerning the thing: which thou mayest rid thyself of, when thou wilt.
Sometimes, it is an external force that makes you realize your real potential.
Nirvana is something within you. It is not an external reality. No god thunders down from the mountaintop. Just as the great mystics in the Christian, Jewish and Muslim faiths all discovered, God is within the self. God is virtually inseparable from ourselves.
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.
It is not light they need but strength, and strength permeates through the external balm of words and good example.
The cause of Sense, is the External Body, or Object, which presseth the organ proper to each Sense, either immediately, as in theTaste and Touch; or mediately, as in Seeing, Hearing, and Smelling: which pressure, by the mediation of Nerves, and other strings, and membranes of the body, continued inwards to the Brain, and Heart, causeth there a resistance, or counter- pressure, or endeavor of the heart, to deliver it self: which endeavor because Outward, seemeth to be some matter without.
External motion we call action; internal motion is human thought.
It is inconceivable that people are motivated solely or even mainly by external incentives.
Honour is external conscience, and conscience is inward honour.
The art path leads you to be increasingly free. And what does "because of being increasingly free" mean? Julio Ramón Ribeyro used to say a mature novel demands the author's death, not literal death but metaphoric death, which is the author has to truly erase himself. Therefore, to be truly free, you have to break free from internal and external pressures, to erase the self completely and become a sort of medium, let the story pass through yourself and let the story dance with you.