{"quotes":[{"text":"The reason people fear to confide in anyone is that even an internal friend can make personal details external, and it will remain eternal.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["betray","betrayal","blab","confiding-in-someone","deep","eternal","expose","external","fear","insecure","insecurity","internal","intimacy","intimate","leak","open","private","privy","reveal","secrets","unfold","unveil"],"id":3922,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"Attachment to the external always suffocates inner peace.","author":"Bryant McGill","tags":["attachment","external","inner-peace","suffocation"],"id":27973,"author_id":"Bryant+McGill"},{"text":"You cannot rise beyond the external as well as internal reality unless you understand your own perception.","author":"Roshan Sharma","tags":["attention","external","illusion","internal","observe","reality","understanding"],"id":37743,"author_id":"Roshan+Sharma"},{"text":"Some teach youwhat can't be taught,by turning their backon you \u0026 helpingyou get internallycloser to everythingyou externallysought.","author":"Curtis Tyrone Jones","tags":["compassion","endurance","external","friends","friendship","happiness","hardship","heaviness","help","hope","inspirational","internal-validation","joy","life","life-lessons","love","loyalty","motivational","persistence","personal-development","poetry","presence","sad","self-love","teaching","unconditional","validation","wisdom"],"id":51074,"author_id":"Curtis+Tyrone+Jones"},{"text":"The cognitive science's challenge is to link our consensus reality to our internal reality, but physics' challenge is to link our consensus reality to our external reality.","author":"Max Tegmark","tags":["challenge","cognitive","consensus","external","internal","physics","reality","science"],"id":55740,"author_id":"Max+Tegmark"},{"text":"Beautiful is he who recognizes what is truly beautiful,Even if the surface is ugly.Truthful is he who says what is true,Even if the truth is ugly.Ugly is he who measures beauty by its exterior,Without first weighing the interior.And ugly is the man who judges harshly what he sees looking out,Without first judging what he sees in the mirror.Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun (2010).","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["attitude","beautiful","beautiful-heart","beauty","bitterness","exterior","external","inner-beauty","inner-love","interior","judge","life","love","measure","mirror","poetry","rate","self-love","surface","suzy-kassem","true","truth","truth-love","truthful","ugliness","ugly","wisdom"],"id":90633,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"People try to build their identity around external things such as appearance and the clothes at the expense of neglecting the inner values of who they really are.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["calling","external","identity","life","purpose","requirement","self-identity","self-improvement","truth","value"],"id":97562,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"To create, I destroyed myself; I made myself external to such a degree within myself that within myself I do not exist except in an external fashion. I am the living setting in which several actors make entrances, putting on several different plays.","author":"Fernando Pessoa","tags":["actors","creating","destroyed","destruction","existence","external","plays","setting"],"id":112001,"author_id":"Fernando+Pessoa"},{"text":"Observing the stream of eternal and simple truth is the same for all who look upon the fountainhead of consciousness.","author":"Bryant McGill","tags":["consciousness","external","observation","spirituality","truth"],"id":120357,"author_id":"Bryant+McGill"},{"text":"The exaggerated dopamine sensitivity of the introvert leads one to believe that when in public, introverts, regardless of its validity, often feel to be the center of (unwanted) attention hence rarely craving attention. Extroverts, on the other hand, seem to never get enough attention. So on the flip side it seems as though the introvert is in a sense very external and the extrovert is in a sense very internal - the introvert constantly feels too much 'outerness' while the extrovert doesn't feel enough 'outerness'.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["attention","awareness","brain","cognition","compassion","dopamine","emotions","empathy","exaggeration","external","extroversion","extrovert","feelings","internal","introversion","introvert","personality","pity","private","psychology","public","senses","sensitivity","social","sympathy","traits"],"id":133181,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":33,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}