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Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
Steve Jobs
Life
Death
Me
Failure
Fear
Pride
Face
Important
Big
Fall
Tool
Everything
Embarrassment
Only
Remembering
Almost
Soon
Almost Everything
Most
Dead
Make
Because
Important Tool
Leaving
Encountered
Truly
Expectations
Just
The Most Important
Choices
Help
Away
Ever
Things
External
Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
You
Man
Hate
Physical
Spirit
Only
Also
Him
Nonviolence
Shoot
Refuse
Means
Avoiding
Internal
Violence
External
When you are spiritually connected, you are not looking for occasions to be offended, and you are not judging and labeling others. You are in a state of grace in which you know you are connected to God and thus free from the effects of anyone or anything external to yourself.
Wayne Dyer
God
You
Yourself
Grace
Offended
Free
Looking
Labeling
Others
State
Spiritually
Thus
Know
Occasions
Judging
Effects
Anyone
Anything
Which
Connected
External
Every living being is an engine geared to the wheelwork of the universe. Though seemingly affected only by its immediate surrounding, the sphere of external influence extends to infinite distance.
Nikola Tesla
Living
Every
Universe
Distance
Immediate
Sphere
Though
Geared
Seemingly
Only
Affected
Surrounding
Infinite
Being
Influence
Engine
External
If you look at great human civilizations, from the Roman Empire to the Soviet Union, you will see that most do not fail simply due to external threats but because of internal weakness, corruption, or a failure to manifest the values and ideals they espouse.
Cory Booker
Great
Failure
You
Corruption
Will
Values
Roman Empire
Weakness
See
Threats
Civilizations
Simply
Fail
Empire
Ideals
Look
Most
Because
Due
Soviet
Soviet Union
Roman
Human
Manifest
Internal
Union
External
Every man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion. The external is that complex of devices, techniques, mechanisms, and instrumentalities by means of which we live.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Art
Religion
Spiritual
Man
Live
Every
Complex
Morals
Devices
Man Lives
Ends
Literature
Which
Realm
Means
Internal
Mechanisms
Expressed
Lives
Techniques
Every Man
External
Two
External nature is only internal nature writ large.
Swami Vivekananda
Nature
Only
Writ
Internal
Large
External
It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Death
Spiritual
Live
Living
Our
Worry
Release
Alive
Definitions
Must
Physical
Facade
Physical Body
Rather
Concern
End
Selves
Behind
While
Conform
Us
Should
Body
Who
Designed
Inner
External
Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.
Kurt Cobain
Saying
Freedom
You
Suffering
World
Punk
Pain
Musical
Definition
Nirvana
Punk Rock
Pretty
Webster
Freedom From
Terms
Rock
Doing
Close
Want
Means
Playing
External
External World
The human being is a self-propelled automaton entirely under the control of external influences. Willful and predetermined though they appear, his actions are governed not from within, but from without. He is like a float tossed about by the waves of a turbulent sea.
Nikola Tesla
Human Being
Control
Waves
Though
Willful
Tossed
About
Entirely
He
Like
Within
Without
Governed
His
Human
Being
Influences
Predetermined
Turbulent
Sea
Actions
Appear
Float
External
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
Epictetus
Happiness
Man
Depend
Live
Philosophy
Possible
Shall
His
Essence
Little
Should
Things
External
External Things
Work is that which you dislike doing but perform for the sake of external rewards. At school, this takes the form of grades. In society, it means money, status, privilege.
Abraham Maslow
Work
You
Money
School
Society
Status
Takes
Perform
Doing
Sake
Privilege
Grades
Rewards
Form
Which
Dislike
Means
External
When most people set out to change their lives, they often focus on all the external stuff, like a new job or a new location or new friends or a new romantic prospects and on and on. The reality is that changing your life starts with changing the way you see everything in your life.
Mark Manson
Life
You
Change
Reality
People
Job
Focus
Starts
Changing
Everything
Way
Location
Out
See
Stuff
Prospects
New
Like
Most
New Friends
New Job
Friends
Often
Romantic
Your
Lives
External
Set
Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.
Eckhart Tolle
Love
You
Love Is
Lose
Other
Some
Outside
Never
Within
Leave
Dependent
Form
Cannot
Body
Your
Deep
External
Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.
Freya Stark
Christmas
Home
Heart
Carries
Piece
Event
External
We are becoming able to see the pursuit of external power for what it is and the futility of trying to escape the pain of powerlessness by changing the world. When we look inward, not outward, we can dismantle the parts of our personalities that have controlled us for so long - such as anger, jealousy, vindictiveness, superiority, inferiority.
Gary Zukav
Jealousy
Anger
Inferiority
World
Long
Power
Pain
Changing
Changing The World
Our
Futility
See
Able
Superiority
Pursuit
Outward
Look
Powerlessness
Inward
Parts
Becoming
Escape
Trying
Controlled
Personalities
Dismantle
Us
Vindictiveness
External
Africa shares with Asia a common background of colonialism, of exploitation, of discrimination, of oppression. At Bandung, African and Asian States dedicated themselves to the liberation of their two continents from foreign domination and affirmed the right of all nations to develop in their own way, free of any external interference.
Haile Selassie
Oppression
Free
Colonialism
Own
Exploitation
Way
Background
States
Liberation
All Nations
Develop
Shares
Foreign
Continents
Discrimination
Domination
Any
Common
Nations
Africa
African
Asia
Asian
Themselves
Interference
Dedicated
Right
External
Two
Reactive people... are often affected by their physical environment. They find external sources to blame for their behavior.
Stephen Covey
Blame
People
Behavior
Find
Physical
Environment
Reactive
Affected
Sources
Often
External
Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love of liberty will, after a time, give way to its dictates.
Alexander Hamilton
Love
Time
Director
Liberty
Safety
Will
National
Way
Danger
Give
Ardent
Powerful
Most
Most Powerful
Conduct
Dictates
After
Even
External
We live in a time of conflict - external and internal - when we sometimes concentrate too much on what divides us. Today, fly the Stars and Stripes with pride and confidence that what unites is far stronger.
Charlie Dent
Today
Time
Confidence
Patriotism
Conflict
Sometimes
Pride
Too Much
Fly
Stronger
Live
Stars
Too
Stripes
Divides
Concentrate
Far
Us
Much
Internal
Unites
External
We see that every external motion, act, gesture, whether voluntary or mechanical, organic or mental, is produced and preceded by internal feeling or emotion, will or volition, and thought or mind.
Helena Blavatsky
Mind
Will
Thought
Feeling
Gesture
Organic
Every
See
Mental
Emotion
Volition
Voluntary
Motion
Whether
Produced
Act
Internal
Mechanical
External
Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
Herbert Spencer
Life
Relations
Adjustment
Continuous
Internal
External
The deepest problems of modern life derive from the claim of the individual to preserve the autonomy and individuality of his existence in the face of overwhelming social forces, of historical heritage, of external culture, and of the technique of life.
Georg Simmel
Life
Culture
Problems
Face
Overwhelming
Heritage
Claim
Individual
Individuality
Forces
His
Existence
Historical
Modern
Modern Life
Autonomy
Social
Derive
Deepest
Technique
External
Preserve
We've had a major shift in what truth is and where it comes from. We've gone from being God-centered to self-centered, from being objective to being subjective, and from being internal to external.
Josh McDowell
Truth
Truth Is
Gone
Objective
Had
Self-Centered
Major
Shift
Subjective
Being
Where
Internal
External
If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Be Happy
Happy
Will
First
Our
Our Lives
Ourselves
Must
Follow
Remain
Tendency
Impetus
Primarily
New
Look
React
Least
Causes
Line
Provide
Either
Against
Us
Activities
Lives
Resistance
External
Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.
Eckhart Tolle
Love
You
Love Is
Lose
Other
State
Some
Outside
Never
Within
Leave
Dependent
Being
Form
Cannot
Body
Your
Deep
External
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