Internals Quotes - Page 23

• God is different to us now, after all these years in Africa. More spirit than ever before, and more internal. Most people think he has to look like something or someone- a roofleaf or Christ- but we don't. And not being tied to what God looks like, frees us.

  Alice Walker

  Thinking, Years, People

  Alice Walker (1982). “El color púrpura”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• Can a person steal happiness? Or is just another internal, infernal human trick?

  Markus Zusak

  Happiness, Stealing, Tricks

  Markus Zusak (2014). “Markus Zusak: The Book Thief & I Am the Messenger”, p.372, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• So what is wild? What is wilderness? What are dreams but an internal wilderness and what is desire but a wildness of the soul?

  Louise Erdrich

  Dream, Soul, Desire

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• Sense of place is the sixth sense, an internal compass and map made by memory and spatial perception together.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Memories, Perception, Together

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• In suffocating the voice of conscience, passion carries with itself a restlessness of the body and the senses: it is the restlessness of the "external man." When the internal man has been reduced to silence, then passion, once it has been given freedom of action, so to speak, exhibits itself as an insistent tendency to satisfy the senses and the body.

  Pope John Paul II

  Passion, Men, Voice

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• But money spent while manic doesn't fit into the Internal Revenue Service concept of medical expense or business loss. So after mania, when most depressed, you're given excellent reason to be even more so.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Loss, Medical, Fit

  Frederick K. Goodwin, Kay Redfield Jamison (2007). “Manic-Depressive Illness: Bipolar Disorders and Recurrent Depression”, p.40, Oxford University Press

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• For writing a first draft requires from the writer a peculiar internal state which ordinary life does not induce. ... how to set yourself spinning?

  Annie Dillard

  Writing, Ordinary, Doe

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• They [Nazi captors]had more liberty, more options to choose from in their environment; but he [Viktor Frankl] had more freedom, more internal power to exercise his options.

  Stephen Covey

  Exercise, Viktor Frankl, Liberty

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• Now they stumbled in the shackles of humanity, lived in a fear that never died, fretted by a law they could not understand; their mock-human existence began in an agony, was one long internal struggle, one long dread of Moreau - and for what? It was the wantonness that stirred me.

  H. G. Wells

  Struggle, Agony, Law

  H. G. Wells (2012). “The Island of Dr. Moreau”, p.74, Courier Corporation

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• I must achieve internal consistency.

  Edmund Husserl

  Consistency, Achieve

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• So of course that was the moment my motherboard decided to do a short internal scan, throw up its hands, and screech, “Dear Lawd, a VAMPIRE has taken mah blood!” and initiate a general shutdown.

  Jennifer Rardin

  Taken, Blood, Hands

  Jennifer Rardin (2011). “Another One Bites The Dust: Book two in the Jaz Parks sequence”, p.147, Hachette UK

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• Training moments occur when both parents and children do their jobs. The parent's job is to make the rule. The child's job is to break the rule. The parent then corrects and disciplines. The child breaks the rule again, and the parent manages the consequences and empathy that then turn the rule into reality and internal structure for the child.

  Henry Cloud

  Jobs, Children, Reality

  Henry Cloud, John Townsend (2009). “Boundaries with Kids: When to Say Yes, How to Say No”, p.151, Harper Collins

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• We all build internal sea walls to keep at bay the sadnesses of life and the often overwhelming forces within our minds. In whatever way we do this--through love, work, family, faith, friends, denial, alcohol, drugs, or medication, we build these walls, stone by stone, over a lifetime.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Depression, Wall, Sadness

  FaceBook post by Kay Redfield Jamison from Dec 20, 2010

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• I feel with some passion that what we truly are is private, and almost infinitely complex, and ambiguous, and both external and internal, and double- or triple- or multiply natured, and largely mysterious even to ourselves; and furthermore that what we are is only part of us, because identity, unlike "identity", must include what we do. And I think that to find oneself and every aspect of this complexity reduced in the public mind to one property that apparently subsumes all the rest ("gay", "black", "Muslim", whatever) is to be the victim of a piece of extraordinary intellectual vulgarity.

  Philip Pullman

  Passion, Gay, Thinking

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• You can't judge an internal injury by the size of the hole.

  Salman Rushdie

  Judging, Size, Injury

  Salman Rushdie (1989). “The Satanic Verses”, New York, N.Y. : Viking

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• Have you got any soul?" a woman asks the next afternoon. That depends, I feel like saying; some days yes, some days no. A few days ago I was right out; now I've got loads, too much, more than I can handle. I wish I could spread it a bit more evenly, I want to tell her, get a better balance, but I can't seem to get it sorted. I can see she wouldn't be interested in my internal stock control problems though, so I simply point to where I keep the soul I have, right by the exit, just next to the blues.

  Nick Hornby

  Soul, Balance, Wish

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.86, Penguin

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• Memory... is an internal rumor.

  George Santayana

  Memories, Rumor

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• So I forcibly shove aside my prickles of pissed-off, which is easier than it sounds when millions of little sequined caffeine dancers are doing their big Broadway number on your internal stage. (Page 173)

  Deb Caletti

  Numbers, Dancer, Pissed Off

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• A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy. While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but when once they lose their virtue then will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader.

  Samuel Adams

  Patriotic, America, People

  Samuel Adams (1968). “The Writings of Samuel Adams: 1778-1802”

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• It is simple to follow the easy and familiar path of personal ambition and private gain. It is more comfortable to sit content in the easy approval of friends and of neighbours than to risk the friction and the controversy that comes with public affairs. It is easier to fall in step with the slogans of others than to march to the beat of the internal drummer - to make and stand on judgements of your own. And it far easier to accept and to stand on the past, than to fight for the answers of the future

  Daniel Webster

  Fall, Ambition, Fighting

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• I didn’t get her cutting at all. She’d done it sporadically, ever since the accident and it scared me each time. She'd try to explain it to me, how she didn't want to die—she just needed to get it out somehow. She felt so much emotionally, she would say, that a physical outlet—physical pain—was the only way to make the internal pain go away. It was the only way she could control it.

  Richelle Mead

  Pain, Cutting, Going Away

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.90, Penguin

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• If hearts really could sink, Kaylin's was busily rearranging her internal organs.

  Michelle Sagara

  Heart, Rearranging, Organs

  Michelle Sagara (2016). “Cast in Secret”, p.120, MIRA

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• There was nowhere to go, but I turned to go and met Atticus's vest front. I buried my head in it and listened to the small internal noises that went on behind the light blue cloth: his watch ticking, the faint crackle of his starched shirt, the soft sound of his breathing. 'Your stomach's growling,' I said. 'I know it,' he said.

  Harper Lee

  Light, Blue, Breathing

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• Needless to say, jamming deformed, drugged, overstressed birds together in a filthy, waste-coated room is not very healthy. Beyond deformities, eye damage, blindness, bacterial infections of bones, slipped vertebrae, paralysis, internal bleeding, anemia, slipped tendons, twisted lower legs and necks, respiratory diseases, and weakened immune systems are frequent and long-standing problems on factory farms.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Eye, Long, Bird

  "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, March 4, 2010.

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• Remember laughing? Laughter enhances the blood flow to the body’s extremities and improves cardiovascular function. Laughter releases endorphins and other natural mood elevating and pain-killing chemicals, improves the transfer of oxygen and nutrients to internal organs. Laughter boosts the immune system and helps the body fight off disease, cancer cells as well as viral, bacterial and other infections. Being happy is the best cure of all diseases!

  Patch Adams

  Laughter, Pain, Cancer

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