Exterior Happiness Quotes & Sayings

Hope is not an emotion; it's a way of thinking or a cognitive process. — Brene Brown

Thankfully, I'm not superstitious. — Frank Hadden

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

I think anyone who gets the Nobel Prize has to be a little bit embarrassed to be picked out when there have been so many people who have contributed. — Christopher A. Sims

It suddenly hit me - it was nearly impossible to take good care of something I hated. I'd spent so long hating my body that I didn't know how to respect and nurture myself or my body. By focusing so much on my exterior, I also robbed myself of the opportunity to feel good about myself and my body, simply because I didn't meet a cultural standard of beauty that is obsessed with thinness. That created stress that interfered with my weight loss and with my own happiness. — Jessica Ortner

One's life, from being an exterior thing, grows inwards. Its intensity stays the same; and, d'you know, it's most mysterious, the corners in which the joy of living can sometimes hide away. — Blaise Cendrars

If the behaviour of babies and small children is any guide, we emerge into the world with our tendencies to imbalance already well entrenched. In our playpens and high chairs, we are rarely far from displaying either hysterical happiness or savage disappointment, love or rage, mania or exhaustion
and, despite the growth of a more temperate exterior in adulthood, we seldom succeed in laying claim to lasting equilibrium, traversing our lives like stubbornly listing ships on choppy seas. — Alain De Botton

No one knew she cried in the night for Lyle and her lost happiness, that under that biscuit crust exterior she was all butter grief and hunger. — Dorothy Allison

friends to the dining hall as guests and pay for their food. I suspect that for some of these kids, that was the main meal they — Bobbi Dempsey

Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose. — William Cowper

Thank you."
She met his eyes with surprise. "For what?"
"For seeing past my hardened, sinful exterior to the man underneath. For loving me despite my many faults."
"You have no faults, not in my eyes."
"I do, but it kind of you to overlook them."
"As you overlook mine."
"Now, there we disagree, since you are perfection itself," he said. "You are everything that is good and generous and kind, and I thank my lucky stars each and every day that you came into my life. Thank you for saving me, Esme. Without you, I would never have known real happiness. — Tracy Anne Warren

She was brave from wine and unseasonable sunshine and the newfound closeness of home. — Claire Vaye Watkins

Teach your children that they need nothing exterior to themselves to be happy, no person, place or thing, and that true happiness is found within. — Neale Donald Walsch

For a West Point graduate to abandon his appointed task in the face of adversity or personal discomfort was all but inconceivable. — David McCullough

Contingency is rich and fascinating; it embodies an exquisite tension between the power of individuals to modify history and the intelligible limits set by laws of nature. The details of individual and species's lives are not mere frills, without power to shape the large-scale course of events, but particulars that can alter entire futures, profoundly and forever. — Stephen Jay Gould

Worst of all, she realized, Zohrane was without fear, and fear is the braking system of intelligence. — Jan Siegel

A woman's exterior beauty is a reflection of her internal peace and happiness. — Gloria Estefan