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Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.
When you are passionate about something, you don't need external motivation to work towards achieving it.
Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities.
I think this idea of fighting the enemy within is sort of more interesting than fighting an external enemy.
Linguistic sounds, considered as external, physical phenomena have two aspects, the motor and the acoustic.
Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people.
I tore my right shoulder to pieces - three external tears, a labrum tear, and a detachment of the bicep tendon.
I don't blame anyone but myself for the kind of parts I got. To blame external circumstances is absolute folly.
A country that does not fulfill its tasks in protecting the external borders has to cope with the consequences.
My favorite Swamp Thing stories have always been about a man wrestling with monsters both internal and external.
Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.
Each one chooses his or her path to come in contact with the external world. I chose to merge with the environment.
We believe in freedom, freedom for the people of each country to follow their destiny without external interference.
The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man... It is more powerful than external circumstances.
I try to write about internal experience versus the external self. I like to present ideas, but not package them neatly.
In Buddhism, you have to believe in yourself. You don't believe something external guides your life. You do it yourself.
When you struggle with weight, it's not an internal struggle... it's literally an external struggle, and everyone sees it.
Schengen cannot survive without the most dramatic reform, and the external borders of Europe must be rapidly strengthened.
'Liberation' is an interesting word because you can be liberated from external things and also from your internal dialogue.
Amusement is a way of boredom-avoidance through external stimulation that fails to exercise our minds. It's mere diversion.
There is no external means, whether it's my career, or money or house or a wife or anything, that is going to set me right.
When you're motivated by external rewards, it's often because you're trying to accomplish goals you didn't create yourself.
Internal marketing is probably much more important than external marketing. That's even more true today than it's ever been.
Germany is not like Ireland or Denmark. It is a country where the domestic market counts much more than the external market.
Reactive people... are often affected by their physical environment. They find external sources to blame for their behavior.
I have a fantastic wife, and not only in terms of external beauty. Her priority and mine is our children. That is our choice.
Non-democratic regimes always need to mobilize their people against external enemies in order to maintain internal stability.
Brexit is the other face of the refugee crisis - tensions that lead to stasis, external risks that lead to asymmetric shocks.
Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
Policies aimed at attracting more foreign investment into India would naturally be a part of an external stabilisation strategy.
When the external factors over which one has no control in a way start to become negative, it starts to affect our creative juices.
I get anxiety and distressed from external stimuli quite easily, so if I'm in a constant state of self-protection, it's exhausting.
We should purify our innate well of contentment - what a wonderful expression - and then external things will be in harmony with us.
Man, double-faced by nature, is placed by Revelation under a sharp, precise external rule, controlling his actions and his thoughts.
There aren't that many policy changes you can do, so I'd say you ride the wave and hope that maybe some of the external events help you.
The Arab world is facing its own version of an Iron Curtain, imposed not by external actors but through domestic forces vying for power.
I need to look back on my poetic ventures, make sense of them as a whole, and move forward... and to experiment without external demands.
It's not always about external problems. It can also come from within, and it can happen to everyone, not only young girls but also boys.
The only knowledge which satisfies us is one which is subject to no external standards but springs from the inner life of the personality.
I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all between the external and the internal.
We must recognize that Small Island Developing States are particularly vulnerable to climate change, natural disasters, and external shocks.
If we really want to achieve true prayer, we must turn our backs upon everything temporal, everything external, everything that is not divine.
We often learn the hard way that our world is ruled by external factors. We don't always get what is rightfully ours, even if we've earned it.
I paint to rest from the phenomena of the external world-to pronounce and to make notations of its essences with which to verify the inner eye.
There are comedians who focus on everything that is external. They focus on politics and the news, what's going on in that city and that night.
We must be out of the protectionist common external tariff, which mainly protects inefficient E.U. industries at the cost to British consumers.
You can look for external sources of motivation and that can catalyze a change, but it won't sustain one. It has to be from an internal desire.
I'll admit that I'm self-centered - all of us are - but I can also be external and giving and listening and empathetic and all that sort of stuff.
Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces.