Outer Quotes

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.' (William S. Burroughs)
What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. View quote
Plutarch
Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from. View quote
Eric Hoffer
The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified. View quote
John Updike
That day she put our heads together, Fate had her imagination about her, Your head so much concerned with outer, Mine with inner, weather. View quote
Robert Frost
Language is a virus from outer space. View quote
William S. Burroughs
Inner space is so much more interesting, because outer space is so empty. View quote
Theodore Sturgeon
We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about. View quote
Joseph Campbell
On the road to Mandalay, Where the flyin'-fishes play, An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer China 'crost the Bay. View quote
Rudyard Kipling
That the outer man is a picture of the inner, and the face an expression and revelation of the whole character, is a presumption likely enough in itself, and therefore a safe one to go on borne out as it is by the fact that people are always anxious to see anyone who has made himself famous. Photography offers the most complete satisfaction of our curiosity. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent. (Virginia Woolf)
I am absorbed in the magic of movement and light. Movement never lies. It is the magic of what I call the outer space of the imagination. View quote
Martha Graham
We try to fix the outside so much, but our control of the outer world is limited, temporary, and often, illusory. View quote
Matthieu Ricard
A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving. View quote
Albert Einstein
Our beliefs create the kind of world we believe in. We project our feelings, thoughts and attitudes onto the world. I can create a different world by changing my belief about the world. Our inner state creates the outer and not vice versa. View quote
John Bradshaw
Militarism is basically a way of thinking, a certain interpretation of the function of the state; this manner of thinking is, moreover, revealed by its outer forms: by armaments and state organization. View quote
Christian Lous Lange
We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves. View quote
Dalai Lama
Neither party should be defined by pandering to the outer reaches of American politics and the agents of intolerance, whether they be Louis Farrakhan and Al Sharpton on the left, or Pat Robertson or Jerry Falwell on the right. View quote
John McCain
Elegance is not an outer quality, but a part of the soul that is visible to others. View quote
Paulo Coelho
The ruling power within, when it is in its natural state, is so related to outer circumstances that it easily changes to accord with what can be done and what is given it to do. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
Mao is a strange man whose personality is like the Tao, sometimes yin and sometimes yang; he has a soft-as-cotton outer layer, but at the same time has sharp needles hiding inside... I do not think he will achieve anything, in the end, he will be crushed inside my palm. (Chiang Kai-shek)
Your own self is your ultimate teacher (sadguru). The outer teacher (Guru) is merely a milestone. It is only your inner teacher, that will walk with you to the goal, for he is the goal. View quote
Nisargadatta Maharaj
The human race is just a chemical scum on a moderate-sized planet, orbiting around a very average star in the outer suburb of one among a hundred billion galaxies. We are so insignificant that I can't believe the whole universe exists for our benefit. That would be like saying that you would disappear if I closed my eyes. View quote
Stephen Hawking
Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be. View quote
W. H. Auden
The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life. View quote
Peace Pilgrim