Internal World Quotes

#1. We have a Father, and He cares about our internal world - issues of motive, issues of fear, issues of validation.

John Eldredge

#2. The cultivation of those sciences which have enlarged the limits of the empire of man over the external world, has, for want of poetical faculty, proportionally circumscribed those of the internal world; and man, having enslaved the elements, remains himself a slave.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#3. You cannot see more or less of what you already can see. Everything that we see relates with our internal world.

Daniel Marques

#4. The more we nourish our internal world, the more powerful we grow in the external world.

Susan L. Taylor

#5. There is no wisdom without mastery over the mystery of our internal world, the world that opens the door to understanding others.

Tian Dayton

#6. We entered the 20th century trying to deal with three ideas purporting to define or describe or explain three spheres of action, development and conflict: Darwin on the natural world, Freud on the internal world, Marx on the economic world.

Bruce Jackson

#7. Positive thinking is about remembering that our internal world creates and is more powerful than the external.

J. P. Blake

#8. If we cannot always be entirely sane in our relationships, the kindest thing we can do for those who care about us is to hand over some maps that try to chart and guide others through the more disturbed regions of our internal world.

The School Of Life

#9. We inhabit an internal world that is subject to diversification. Every day we undergo personal transformation based upon experiences, thoughts, and feelings.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#10. It's not easy trying to navigate your internal world in the public eye.

Natasha Lyonne

#11. As a kid, I lived almost entirely inside books, and eventually the books started returning the favor. A lot of my internal world feels like an anthology, or a library. It's eclectic and disorganized, but I can browse in it, and that hugely shapes both what and how I write.

Kathryn Schulz

#12. Life is not about changing the external circumstances, to please your internal world, rather life is to change your internal circumstances so that you can accept, whatever takes place in the external world.

Roshan Sharma

#13. With Will I sensed a vast internal hinterland, a world he wouldn't give me even a glimpse of.

Jojo Moyes

#14. How shallow to presume war exists only within the physical world. Battles are waged for mind and soul, where things far from comprehension are confronted.

Christopher Hawke

#15. The passage of time is internal to the world, is born in the world itself in the relationship between quantum events that comprise the world and are themselves the source of time. The

Carlo Rovelli

#16. Once you make the unequivocal internal commitment to do something - when you absolutely know this is the time and the place to act - the world around you will shift in all sorts of apparently miraculous ways to make it happen.

Sarah Susanka

#17. Our Creator has given us five senses to help us survive threats from the external world, and a sixth sense, our healing system, to help us survive internal threats.

Bernie Siegel

#18. Our exterior world affects our internal landscape, our inner world affects our interpretation of physical sense impressions, and the combination of emotions, thoughts, and physical sensations influences how we address reality.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#19. The internal dialogue is what grounds people in the daily world. The world is such and such or so and so, only because we talk to ourselves about its being such and such and so and so. The passageway into the world of shamans opens up after the warrior has learned to shut off his internal dialogue

Carlos Castaneda

#20. Inner conflict is really fun to play because there's a lot going on, and the choices - when you've got a character with internal conflict - the choices you make have broader ramifications because they have inner ramifications and ramifications in the world.

Silas Weir Mitchell

#21. The creation is a very internal process, and publishing the book is a very external process. It is nice to see the book out in the world and people having the same reaction as when I created it. The point of all art is the emotional transference, and when that happens, the book has succeeded.

Elliot Ackerman

#22. I can no longer stay quiet in this world, I have a voice and I feel it reverberate off my internal walls, making its slow climb upward until its melody can be heard all around.

Elin Stebbins Waldal

#23. There is mighty force, energy, ability inside of us that has not yet been noticed by the world

Sunday Adelaja

#24. When there is no overt [outward] or subtle inner restlessness, it is indeed the state of internal peace. If the chit (inner component of knowledge and vision) concentrates on the external, inner peace breaks down. It is because of the external focus that this world has arisen.

Dada Bhagwan

#25. Yes, there's a relaying of internal states that only a novel can achieve. In my view, the novel is one of Europe's greatest gifts to the world. America and Africa collaborated to give the world jazz. We'll call it even.

Teju Cole

#26. A world government can intervene militarily in the internal affairs of any nation when it disapproves of their activities.

Kofi Annan

#27. There are internal chains and external chains. All the external chains in the world won't enslave you, if you are free inside. And all the external 'freedom' in the world won't liberate you, if you are chained inside.
Let go. And you'll know Freedom.

Yasmin Mogahed

#28. Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction ...

Abraham Maslow

#29. The show became its own little world, with its own internal rhythm and high standards.

Dick Van Dyke

#30. This is my spiritual journey through life, my way of making sense of the world. I don't need permission from anyone or accolades from anyone; it is completely internal.

R.A. Salvatore

#31. How difficult it is to advance at one's own internal rhythm when one is constantly fighting against the inertia of the material world. Everything is always on the verge of stopping.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#32. The moment you make the internal changes necessary to obtain your goal, the outside world changes instantly.

Chris Prentiss

#33. Ultimately, work on self is inseperable from work in the world. Each mirrors the other; each is a vehicle for the other. When we change ourselves, our values and actions change as well. When we do work in the world, internal issues arise that we must face or be rendered ineffective.

Charles Eisenstein

#34. Only direct experience of the peaceful internal state will remove doubt and provide enlightenment - not in a spooky, out-of-this-world kind of way, but in a rational, let's-turn-on-the-lights sort of way.

Gudjon Bergmann

#35. The more externally chaotic the world becomes, the more we need sound internal logic, especially when it comes to our emotions.

Chip Conley

#36. The finer is always the cause, the grosser the effect. So the external world is the effect, the internal the cause.

Swami Vivekananda

#37. I've realized that the world is, in essence, full of banana peels - loaded with things that may unwittingly trip an internal wire in my mind, opening a floodgate of fears without warning.

Amanda Lindhout

#38. Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person's own mind, than on the externals in the world.

George Washington

#39. We are all either conditioned by belief system or consciousness. Belief system is built through the world, consciousness is built from within.

Matthew Donnelly

#40. The world comes at me that way - comes at me in clumps of stuff, sometimes little vignettes and sometimes whole stories. And then the rest is erased by the internal filter that erases things for the same reason you'd forget swatting a mosquito.

Tim O'Brien

#41. Since World War II, most of the conflicts in the world have been internal conflicts. The weapon of choice in those wars has all too often been landmines - to such a degree that what we find today are tens of millions of landmines contaminating approximately 70 countries around the world.

Jody Williams

#42. Internal and external are ultimately one. When you no longer perceive the world as hostile, there is no more fear, and when there is no more fear, you think, speak and act differently. Love and compassion arise, and they affect the world.

Eckhart Tolle

#43. Observe your internal and external world and rise above it.

Roshan Sharma

#44. If Ediacara survivors had been able to evolve internal complexity later on, then the pathways from this radically different starting point would have produced a world worthy of science fiction at its best.

Stephen Jay Gould

#45. I think that all politicians who aspire to the presidency are a little nuts, but for different reasons. What kind of person aspires to be the most powerful person in the world? The answer is someone with an internal drive that is so dynamic and so determined.

Rick Perlstein

#46. A trans-rational definition of spirituality therefore encompasses these two elements. First, uncovering our peaceful internal center, and then, allowing that peace to guide our actions in the world.

Gudjon Bergmann

#47. The world is outside us; our senses are within us. How, then, do the two come together so that we can know something? Obviously our senses can't go forth and drag an actual chunk if the world back to their internal lair, intact and as is, for the benefit of the rest if the brain.

Kathryn Schulz

#48. Transform your world by transforming your internal state. Start by learning to let go of negative self judgment, and replace it with positive and loving thoughts about yourself. Be kind to yourself, and watch your external world change.

Anita Moorjani

#49. O holy Sunday, let your darkness not come along my way. Let her nurture internal and external world, as I start my personal day.

Santosh Kalwar

#50. Our country today is at a cross-point of several crises that were triggered by three groups of causes: the effects of the 2008 world crisis, the external political and economic pressure, and the internal problems and constraints that have built up in our economy

Dmitry Medvedev

#51. By deliberately changing the internal image of reality, people can change the world.

Willis Harman

#52. The battlefields of World War I established the importance of petroleum as an element of national power when the internal combustion machine overtook the horse and the coal-powered locomotive.

Daniel Yergin

#53. Allure goes beyond appearances to the way they grace the world. Some women propel themselves by means of an internal gyroscope. Others glide through life as if on ice skates. Some women convey their tortured lives through their eyes; others encircle you in the music of their laughter.

Keith Donohue

#54. George was, in truth, one of the sort who evidently have made some mistake in coming into this world at all, as their internal furniture is in no way suited to its general courses and currents.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#55. The most important enemy for everyone is their own illusion that makes them unrealistic or exaggerates their sense of self-importance in the world. Ironically, you're the super secret enemy. Whether lay or householder, everyone has that internal enemy.

Robert Thurman

#56. Although attempting to bring about world peace through the internal transformation of individuals is difficult, it is the only way.

Dalai Lama

#57. The young among us are, as a general thing, allied to the world. But few maintain a special warfare against the internal foe. But few have an earnest, anxious desire to know and do the will of God.

Ellen G. White

#58. You can redefine your external world by an internal experience with the love of God.

Bill Johnson

#59. When there is complete peace of mind when the outer world is chaotic you will truly be free.

Matthew Donnelly

#60. Spurious prudence, making the senses final, is the god of sots and cowards, and is the subject of all comedy. It is nature's joke, and therefore literature's. True prudence limits this sensualism by admitting the knowledge of an internal and real world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#61. I was purely content to sit in the car and wander around my own mind. Watching the world itself, the people in it, and my whole internal life was more than enough to keep me entertained.

Gabrielle Hamilton

#62. Whenever the internal dialogue stops, the world collapses, and extraordinary facets of ourselves surface, as though they had been kept heavily guarded by our words.

Carlos Castaneda

#63. Independent of what is happening around you in the outside world, humans constantly have internal activity in the brain.

Susumu Tonegawa

#64. We spend much of the first half of our lives trying to build internal models that fit the world and much of the last half of our lives trying to adjust the world so it fits the inner models.

Bruce Wexler

#65. I don't think anyone now really understands the planetisation of mankind, really understands the new world order emerging through all this period of strain and pain and contradiction, so more than ever, we need to have an internal sense of navigation.

William Irwin Thompson

#66. I use the word inquiry as synonymous with The Work ... Inquiry is a way to end confusion and to experience internal peace, even in a world of apparent chaos. Above all else, inquiry is about realizing that all the answers we ever need are always available inside us.

Byron Katie

#67. Jupiter, a world far larger than Earth, is so warm that it currently radiates more internal heat than it receives from the Sun.

Seth Shostak

#68. There is an expression now that is commonly used about these so-called internal conflicts which are not really internal, because they have connections to the outside world.

Lakhdar Brahimi

#69. Maybe I am skipping over the city and going from very personal things to the world, from internal experience to giant, far-away-from-space experience.

Regina Spektor

#70. That is why the discipline of managing mental models - surfacing, testing, and improving our internal pictures of how the world works - promises to be a major breakthrough for building learning organizations.

Peter M. Senge

#71. Internal and external world is interdependent. Your experiences and impressions of the outside world shape your thoughts and imagination, while making the choice and decisions, from your internal thought process, creates your physical reality.

Roshan Sharma

#72. Either inventing internal worlds or having no world at all to inhabit,

John Darnielle

#73. Depression is internal. The upswings and downswings have pretty much nothing to do with what's going on in the external world. It's not like something sad happens to you and then you feel sad. Good things happen, but you feel sad anyway.

Graham Moore

#74. There is a gap between the mind and the world, and (as far as anybody knows) you need to posit internal representations if you are to have a hope of getting across it. Mind the gap. You'll regret it if you don't.

Jerry A. Fodor

#75. Much of what you see out there is manufactured by your brain, painted in like computer-generated graphics in a movie; only a very small part of the inputs to your occipital lobe comes directly from the external world, the rest comes from internal memory stores and other processes.

Ruby Wax

#76. The World Will Break Your Heart. Grief might be, in some ways, the long aftermath of love, the internal work of knowing, holding, more fully valuing what we have lost.

Mark Doty

#77. Each of us is born with an internal navigational system. The thinking of the world has a way of switching the system off, but we can always turn it on again through prayer, meditation and forgiveness. Doing this puts us back on track in our lives, making us wise, convicted and powerful.

Marianne Williamson

#78. Experience has shown repeatedly that a mathematical theory with a rich internal structure generally turns out to have significant implications for the understanding of the real world, often in ways no one could have envisioned before the theory was developed.

William Thurston

#79. Monologues are self-verifying and self-referencing, a world in their own right, one with its own internal logic that strengthens with reiteration.

Samantha Harvey

#80. This goal can and must be attained in this life. But even if this does not happen, remember that he who has found the way once, always returns to this world with an internal maturity that enables him to continue his work.

Gustave Meyrink

#81. There are lots of countries that are having these kinds of internal civil wars in other parts of the world and nobody is talking about intervening.

Colin Powell

#82. Wiping grime from his hands, Nick contemplated one of the world's great mysteries: why man had ever combined computers and the internal combustion engine.

Robin Kaye

#83. Triboplasts played a crucial role in evolution, precisely because they did have internal organs, and in particular they could ingest food and excrete it. Their excreta became a major resource for other creatures; to get an interestingly complicated world, it is vitally important that shit happens.

Terry Pratchett

#84. Self-confidence is not hope; it is the self-judgment of your own internal forces in their relation to the world without, which results from the failure of many hopes and the non-realization of many fears.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#85. There is nothing in this world that never takes a step outside a person's heart.

Haruki Murakami

#86. When studying the world's religions, there appear to be two primary paths available to those who want to practice their faith. One path is internal and contemplative in nature. The other is emotional, external, and actionable in nature. I have identified these as the paths of oneness and goodness.

Gudjon Bergmann

#87. Internal peace is an essential first step to achieving peace in the world. How do you cultivate it? It's very simple. In the first place by realizing clearly that all mankind is one, that human beings in every country are members of one and the same family.

Dalai Lama

#88. Most of the poverty and misery in the world is due to bad government, lack of democracy, weak states, internal strife, and so on.

George Soros

#89. Descend lower, descend only
Into the world of perpetual solitude,
World not world, but that which is not world,
Internal darkness, deprivation
And destitution of all property,
Desiccation of the world of sense,
Evacuation of the world of fancy,
Inoperancy of the world of spirit;

T. S. Eliot