To describe externals, you become a scientist. To describe experience, you become an artist.
Pure love of God is our nature, but we are so much diverted, so much distracted by the externals that we've forgotten that it's our essence.
Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person’s own mind, than on the externals in the world.
Beg of God the removal of envy, that God may deliver you from externals, and bestow upon you an inward occupation, which will absorb you so that your attention is not drawn away.
I know unless I'm true to myself I couldn't be happy. Too much emphasis is placed today on externals and too little on character.
In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion.
The externals are simply so many props; everything we need is within us.
We pay far too much attention to externals.
If you would improve, submit to be considered wihout sense and foolish with respect to externals. Wish to be considered to know nothing; and if you shall seem to someone to be a person of importance, distrust yourself.
When one maintains his proper attitude in life, he does not long after externals.
The externals are important but I'm not interested in superficiality.
