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• Of course, a psychologist would find it more direct to study the inspired poet. He would make concrete studies of inspiration in individual geniuses. But for all that, would he experience the phenomena of inspiration? His human documentation gathered from inspired poets could hardly be related, except from the exterior, in an ideal of objective observations. Comparison of inspired poets would soon make us lose sight of inspiration.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Inspiration, Sight, Documentation

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• You are without needs. There is nothing that you need in order to be perfectly happy. You only think that there is. Your deepest, most perfect happiness will be found within, and once you find it, nothing exterior to your Self can match it, nor can anything destroy it.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Thinking, Self, Order

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Dec 23, 2013

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• Between two products equal in price, function and quality, the one with the most attractive exterior will win.

  Raymond Loewy

  Business, Winning, Two

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• I learned that the interior of life was as rewarding as the exterior of life, and that my richest moments occurred when I was absolutely still.

  Richard Bode

  Inner Peace, Wealth, Moments

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• Some men are one thing on the surface and another underneath. The true poet shows not just the exterior of his subject, but all the contradictions within, and lets the reader draw his own conclusions.

  Steven Saylor

  Men, Poet, Contradiction

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• An obvious fact about negative feelings is often overlooked. They are caused by us, not by exterior happenings. An outside event presents the challenge, but we react to it. So we must attend to the way we take things, not to the things themselves.

  Vernon Howard

  Gratitude, Challenges, Feelings

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• To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within the soul.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Beauty, Beautiful, Truth

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.71, A&C Black

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• I think there's a terrible price to be paid when your exterior life is not an honest reflection of your interior life.

  Gene Robinson

  Reflection, Thinking, Honest

  "'I'm not the gay bishop - I'm just the bishop'". Interview With Aida Edemariam, www.theguardian.com. August 28, 2009.

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• The City is a machine miraculously organised for extracting gold from the seas, airs, clouds, from barren lands, holds of ships, mines, plantations, cottage hearth-stones, trees and rocks; and he, wretchedly waiting in the exterior halls, could not even get his finger on one tiny, tiny lever.

  Christina Stead

  Art, Clouds, Rocks

  Christina Stead, Anita Segerberg (1994). “Christina Stead, Selected Fiction and Nonfiction”, UQP

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• It's only recently that we've discovered that the artist's inner self is somehow more important than the public world. I'm happier to create exterior pieces for the world rather than to express something I deeply feel or wish to say.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Artist, Self, Wish

  "The Big Life" by Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. September 3, 2005.

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• Nothing is out of our realm, because it has nothing to do with color. As black people, we're not different from anyone else, other than the exterior.

  Marla Gibbs

  Color, People, Black

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If you have a connection to someone, it doesn't matter what their exterior is.

  Agyness Deyn

  Connections, Matter, Ifs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The way the world works now, the way the rules of engagement operate, you can't claim to make sense out of the exterior without booking voyages into the interior. Think about it: How can you understand 'it' if you haven't made any effort to understand 'you'? Because what you're really doing is establishing a living, electrical, vital, energetic connection between it and you. You're creating both of them, simultaneously. A lot like quantum physics.

  Seth Godin

  Thinking, Self, Creating

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• And what is faith, love, virtue unassayed Alone, without exterior help sustained?

  John Milton

  Faith, Helping, Virtue

  John Milton, Edward Young, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, William Collins (1836). “The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins”, p.65

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• The senses are the organs by which man places himself in connexion with exterior objects.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Men, Organs, Senses

  Brillat Savarin (2015). “The Physyology of Taste”, p.46, Editorial MAXTOR

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• An artist worthy of the name should express all the truth of nature, not only the exterior truth, but also, and above all, the inner truth.

  Auguste Rodin

  Art, Names, Should

  Auguste Rodin (2012). “Rodin on Art and Artists”, p.80, Courier Corporation

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• It's not a pretty face, I grant you. But underneath its flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

  Alan Jay Lerner

  Character, Faces, Enormous

  "Fictional character: Adam Cook". "An American in Paris", 1951.

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• We've gotten caught up in thinking we are what we look like, the physical, the exterior. We think we're the lamp shade. We've forgotten that we are the light-the electricity and the luminosity that lights up every man, woman, and child. The light is who we truly are.

  Michael Beckwith

  Children, Men, Thinking

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• Strive with all your might to bring your interior activity into accord with God, and you will overcome exterior passions.

  Arsenius the Great

  Christian, Passion, Overcoming

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• 'Truly, truly, I tell you, if you ask anything of the Father in My Name, He will give it to you. Till now you have asked nothing in My Name; ask and you will receive, that your joy may be full' (Jn. 16:23). What a wonderful gift! It is a guarantee of unending, infinite blessings! It came from the lips of the unlimited God, clothed in limited humanity and called by the human name of Savior. The name by its exterior form is limited, but it represents an unlimited object, God, from Whom it borrows infinite, divine value or worth, the power and properties of God.

  Ignatius Bryanchaninov

  Father, Blessing, Names

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• I only ever worked on interiors, and an interior is an interior. I don't know what they did about exteriors.

  Christopher Eccleston

  Interiors, Knows

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• No feeling you get from any exterior stimulation or source is anything like the total bliss of communion within.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Feelings, Bliss, Source

  Neale Donald Walsch (2002). “Friendship with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.100, Penguin

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• It wasn't until I had performed by first autopsy that I realized that even the drabest human exteriors could contain the most beautiful viscera. After that, I would console myself for the plainness of my fellow bus-riders by dissecting them in my imagination.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Beautiful, Imagination, Firsts

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• I’m exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.

  Gore Vidal

  Ice, Water, Cold

  "Gore Vidal and the Sky God" by R. Albert Mohler, Jr., www.christianpost.com. August 7, 2012.

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• In other words, the real problem is not exterior. The real problem is interior. The real problem is how to get people to internally transform, from egocentric to sociocentric to worldcentric consciousness, which is the only stance that can grasp the global dimensions of the problem in the first place, and thus the only stance that can freely, even eagerly, embrace global solutions.

  Ken Wilber

  Real, People, Firsts

  Ken Wilber (2001). “Sex, Ecology, Spirituality: The Spirit of Evolution, Second Edition”, p.541, Shambhala Publications

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