nations decay from within more often than they surrender to outward assault.
My belief is that cancer comes from inside you and so much of it has to do with the environment of your body. It's the stress that will turn that gene on or not.
I've never detected a correlation between where I am and what I write. I think there could be something subconscious, though. And I can't really speak for my subconscious.
Happiness is determined more by one's state of mind than by external events.
Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person’s own mind, than on the externals in the world.
The truth is that stress doesn't come from your boss, your kids, your spouse, traffic jams, health challenges, or other circumstances. It comes from your thoughts about these circumstances.
It's probably a combination of personal and non-personal matters that have led us to where we are musically.
Happiness and suffering are states of mind, and so their main causes cannot be found outside the mind.
Childhood is a complex dialectical process characterized by periodicity, unevenness in the development of different functions, metamorphosis or qualitative transformation of one form into another, intertwining of external and internal factors, and adaptive processes which overcome impediments that the child encounters.
That human behavior is more influenced by things outside of us than inside. The 'situation' is the external environment. The inner environment is genes, moral history, religious training.
Stress comes from within; it is your reaction to circumstances, not the circumstances themselves.
People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness.
You don't know the things in your childhood that influence you. You can't possibly know them. People today try to analyze the early environment and the reasons for something that happened, but if you look at children of the same family -- children who have identical parents, go to identical schools, have an almost identical upbringing, and yet who have totally different experiences and neuroses -- you realize that what influences the children is not so much the obvious externals as their emotional experiences. Of course any psychiatrist knows that.
A nation never falls but by suicide.
Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular.
Historically, if you look at great civilizations, why do they crumble? Is it because of what's outside or because of something internal? It's always internal. It is.
One's perception of themselves has a much bigger role than has been acknowledged to determine who succeeds and who does not.
The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. We carry the seeds of the one or the other about with us in our minds wherever we go.
The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.
I believe when things are going well, there's pressure, and when things are going bad, there's pressure. The pressure is more on the outside than inside.
Whatever may be true of the other modes of warfare, insatyagraha it has been held that the causes for failure are to be sought within.
Motives are causes experienced from within.
Happiness, as is evident, depends partly upon external circumstances and partly upon oneself.
What a large number of factors constitute a single human being! How very many layers we operate on, and how very many influences we receive from our minds, our bodies, our histories, our families, our cities, our souls and our lunches!
What's happening internally is eventually what will take AOL back to being a growth company.
