Happiness Is Internal Quotes

#1. False pleasures come from without and are imperfect: happiness is internal and our own.

John Lubbock

#2. Love didn't seem like something that could be organized or contained; it should be messy and emotional, like exploding and imploding with someone at the exact same time.

Rita Stradling

#3. If goodness does exist, then I'm the opposite of it. I'm evil, and I revel in it

Anne Rice

#4. Our happiness should not depend on external things; it is the expression of internal attitudes.

Debasish Mridha

#5. Happiness is intrinsic, it's an internal thing. When you build it into yourself, no external circumstances can take it away.

Leo Buscaglia

#6. Happiness is a choice I am making now. Once we understand that and find love consciousness, we learn that this place of internal plenitude needs nothing.

Isha Judd

#7. ...An ethnically heterogeneous society without a unifying hero is bound to be torn apart by internal strife. Only a man capable of bringing about a workable consensus between the diverse people is truly a hero. Such a man has to be a true disciple of peace, unity, solidarity and justice.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#8. A woman's exterior beauty is a reflection of her internal peace and happiness.

Gloria Estefan

#9. Maybe life involves the pairing of unsuitable people, those who wait and those who keep others waiting, and the key to happiness is finding the one person with whom you share the same internal chronometer.

Jacob M. Appel

#10. Why do I get the feeling, interjected Cheops, that shit and fan are moving into conjunction, and that we might be in the way?

Neal Asher

#11. Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person's own mind, than on the externals in the world.

George Washington

#12. Yes, if truth is not undergirded by love, it makes the possessor of that truth obnoxious and the truth repulsive.

Ravi Zacharias

#13. Until 'you' FULLY embrace who 'you are', no amount of money, no person or external things will EVER make you happy or bring you peace.

Yvonne Pierre

#14. To be prejudiced is always to be weak; yet there are prejudices so near to laudable that they have been often praised and are always pardoned.

Samuel Johnson

#15. Hollywood would make a holocaust an animated comedy if people would pay to see it; they don't care ... they just want your money.

Adam Green

#16. You didn't have time to prepare the rhyming good-bye poem done in the style of Dr. Seuss? I do not like to basket weave. / I do not like when Sabin leaves. / I do not like -

Jessica Park

#17. It is difficult to describe the moment when you realize the person you are is not the same as the person you must become to face the challenges before you.

Barbra Annino

#18. I hate that my life is teaching me that I can only be loved if I put my love out of reach and just drift above people until they love my remoteness.

Helen Oyeyemi

#19. To make a thought my own, I must think it often.

Mason Cooley

#20. We must endeavor to be whole, whether in or out of a relationship, basing happiness on our own internal resources rather than relying on someone else to full the perceived gaps in our lives.

Shane Eric Mathias

#21. Change is not so much about being the first one to embrace a new idea, but being the first to forget an old one

Tom Peters

#22. That which renders morality an active principle and constitutes virtue our happiness, and vice our misery: it is probable, I say, that this final sentence depends on some internal sense or feeling, which nature has made universal in the whole species.

David Hume

#23. Joy is a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

Oprah Winfrey

#24. A substantial amount of research over the past decade has reinforced the idea that although internal happiness can deviate from its "resting state" in reaction to life events, it usually returns toward its baseline over time.

Dan Ariely

#25. A happy heart can walk in triumphant indifference through a sea of external trouble; while internal anguish cannot find happiness in the most favorable surroundings.

Hannah Whitall Smith

#26. I was a very focused and determined woman and I always got what I wanted. But once I had it, there was another future moment when I had to attain something else. These internal yearnings keep happiness in a future moment.

Isha Judd

#27. He knew that to be careless in dress and manner required more confidence than to be careful.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#28. Can a person steal happiness? Or is just another internal, infernal human trick?

Markus Zusak