Internalization Quotes

“The key then to attaining this higher level of intelligence is to make our years of study qualitatively rich. We don't simply absorb information - we internalize it and make it our own by finding some way to put this knowledge to practical use.”
― Robert Greene, Mastery

“One-year enlistment had proven problematic since the troops were scheduled to rotate out of the army just when they had begun to internalize the discipline of military service and became reliable soldiers.”
― Joseph J. Ellis, Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence

“It is easy for others to dismiss you when people do not understand themselves. It is easy for people to judge you when they do not understand themselves. It is difficult for people to except you for who you are when they do not understand who they are.”
― Renee Cefalu

“Bit by bit, our people begin to embody the changed anticipation of being cared for and treated with kindness and respect.

Part of what strengthens this new way of being comes from us having co-internalized one another.

We continue to be their reflective companion on the outside, and they will also feel how we continue to carry them with us in our inner world.

It is quite beautiful to watch this healing unfold, often revealing itself as changes in body, feeling, behavior, relational choices first, then later affirmed in more frequent words of tenderness toward themselves.”
― Bonnie Badenoch, The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships

“We are more powerful than we have been lead to believe. Walk tall in your power and never give it to an outside source.
True authority comes from within.”
― Renee Cefalu