Internals Quotes - Page 37

• Focus on the competition to diminish the time dedicated to internal politics.

  James Kerr

  Focus, Competition, Dedicated

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• Only one girl has ever really wrapped my stomach into pretzels. She didn’t give me butterflies. She gave me pterodactyls
  I’m talking terrible internal bruising and the first time I kissed her was like the first time I saw fireworks, which was like the sky first kissing me in the eyeballs

  George Watsky

  Girl, Butterfly, Kissing

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• Absolute atheism starts in an act of faith in reverse gear and is a full-blown religious commitment. Here we have the first internal inconsistency of contemporary atheism: it proclaims that all religion must necessarily vanish away, and it is itself a religious phenomenon.

  Jacques Maritain

  Faith, Religious, Atheist

  Jacques Maritain (1966). “A Maritain Reader: Selected Writings”

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• So let's not get frightened when the children read fantasy. It's the compost for a healthy mind. It stimulate s the inquisitive nodes, and there is some evidence that a rich internal fantasy life is as good and necessary for a child as healthy soil is for a plant, for much the same reasons.

  Terry Pratchett

  Children, Healthy, Mind

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• Music to me is so internal. It's physical and it's emotional. Whereas fashion is so much about the external that it's almost like a break. It's not inner turmoil. It's total escapism.

  Florence Welch

  Fashion, Emotional, Break

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• When we panic, we instinctively turn to our own internal resources because we doubt Him.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Fear, Doubt, Panic

  Charles R. Swindoll (2008). “Great Lives: Jesus Bible Companion: The Greatest Life of All”, p.67, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• While it is tempting to believe that you are the victim of certain people or forces beyond your control, A Course in Miracles teaches you to recognize that you are not a victim. Through the grace of God, you are lifted above and beyond any forces-internal or external-that threaten to limit you. Knowing you're not a victim is a major form of personal empowerment.

  Marianne Williamson

  Believe, Knowing, People

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• Becoming internally empowered shifts a person's center of gravity from external to internal- a mark of spiritual passage.

  Caroline Myss

  Spiritual, Becoming, Gravity

  Twitter post from Sep 18, 2011

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• U.S. Internal Revenue Service: an agency modeled after the revenue raising concepts of the 19th century economist, Jesse James.

  Robert Breault

  Agency, Century, Taxes

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• If every man's internal care Were written on his brow, How many would our pity share Who raise our envy now?

  Pietro Metastasio

  Kindness, Men, Envy

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• I came to a clear internal realization that there was nothing I could do as a separated self that would ever fulfill me.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  Self, Oneness, Realization

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• If you are connected to your own internal being, it is very hard to be screwing and destroying and hurting another human being, because you’ll be feeling what they’re feeling. If you’re separated, it’s not a hard thing to do at all.

  Eve Ensler

  Hurt, Feelings, Destroying

  "Interview with Eve Ensler: In The Body of the World". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 29, 2013.

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• 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

  Essence, Mind, Wire

  Amanda Lindhout, Sara Corbett (2013). “A House in the Sky: A Memoir”, p.365, Simon and Schuster

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• Churches are more prosperous than at any time within the past several hundred years. But the alarming thing is that our gains are mostly external and our losses wholly internal; and since it is the quality of our religion that is affected by internal conditions, it may be that our supposed gains are but losses spread over a wider field.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Loss, Past, Years

  Aiden Wilson Tozer (1965). “The Knowledge of the Holy”, p.1, Fig

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• The Democrats believe that if God did not want them to raise taxes, He would not have created the Internal Revenue Service.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, Party

  "Dave Barry's Bad Habits". Book by Dave Barry, September 15, 1993.

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• The most dangerous aspect of present-day life is the dissolution of the feeling of individual responsibility. Mass solitude has done away with any difference between the internal and the external, between the intellectual and the physical.

  Eugenio Montale

  Responsibility, Differences, Solitude

  Eugenio Montale (1976). “Poet in our time”, Calder Publications

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• Kids are naturally inventive and curious and creative, but most adults have had that beaten out of them. Writing is a form of play; you have to get rid of all those internal censors that we adults have, the things that say, 'Don't go there, that's not allowed.

  Monica Ali

  Writing, Kids, Play

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• A breast cancer might turn out to have a close resemblance to a gastric cancer. And this kind of reorganization of cancer in terms of its internal genetic anatomy has really changed the way we treat and approach cancer in general.

  Siddhartha Mukherjee

  Cancer, Reorganization, Might

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• Christianity is not a purely intellectual, internal faith. It can only be lived in community.

  Philip Yancey

  Community, Intellectual, Christianity

  Philip Yancey, Eugene H. Paterson (2001). “Church: Why Bother?: My Personal Pilgrimage”, p.23, Zondervan

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• The term 'just war' is an internal contradiction. War is inherently unjust, and the great challenge of our time is how to deal with evil, tyranny and oppression without killing huge numbers of people.

  Howard Zinn

  War, Numbers, People

  Howard Zinn (2011). “Terrorism and War”, p.19, Seven Stories Press

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• Concentration and mindfulness are the internal ways in which the mind restores itself from being out of balance and lost in confusion to a condition of ease, clarity, and wisdom. No external action needs to happen.

  Sylvia Boorstein

  Confusion, Mind, Balance

  Sylvia Boorstein, Ph.D. (2008). “Happiness Is an Inside Job: Practicing for a Joyful Life”, p.14, Ballantine Books

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• All children want to do is play in worlds they create and project on their external world. If allowed to do that, they are constantly building new neural structures for creating internal worlds and projecting them on their external world. And they build up an enormous self-esteem and feeling of power over the external world through their own capacities.

  Joseph Chilton Pearce

  Children, Self Esteem, Play

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• From my own internal fanboy perspective, there's nothing that I hate more than seeing a three minute trailer for a movie where I feel like it's shown me the entire movie.

  Damon Lindelof

  Hate, Perspective, Three

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• To try to regulate the internal affairs of a family, the relations of love or friendship, or many other things of the same sort, by law or by the coercion of public opinion, is like trying to pull an eyelash out of a man's eye with a pair of tongs. They may put out the eye, but they will never get hold of the eyelash

  James Fitzjames Stephen

  Eye, Men, Law

  Sir James Fitzjames Stephen (1874). “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity”, p.177

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• A woman's exterior beauty is a reflection of her internal peace and happiness.

  Gloria Estefan

  Reflection, Peace And Happiness, Internal Peace

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