External Things Quotes

34 quotes by 25 authors

Happiness always has an object... Depends on external things. Joy... Has no object. It seizes you for no apparent reason, it's like the sun, its… — Susanna Tamaro
[Man] is the only animal who lives outside of himself, whose drive is in external thingsâ€”property, houses, money, concepts of power. He lives in his… — John Steinbeck
There is but one way to tranquility of mind and happiness, and that is to account no external things thine own, but to commit all… — Epictetus
You know yourself what you are worth in your own eyes; and at what price you will sell yourself. For men sell themselves at various… — Epictetus
If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid with regard to external things. Don't wish to be thought to know… — Epictetus
Seek not the good in external things;seek it in yourselves. — Epictetus
Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him. — Blaise Pascal
Happiness comes from within. It is not dependent on external things or on other people. You become vulnerable and can be easily hurt when your… — Brian Weiss
God has entrusted me with myself. No man is free who is not master of himself. A man should so live that his happiness shall… — Epictetus
If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgement of them. And it is in your… — Marcus Aurelius
Tonight I love you in a way that you have not known in me: I am neither worn down by travels nor wrapped up in… — Unkown
There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination, and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property; or that sole and despotic… — William Blackstone
I think one of the hardest things in life is to really be happy within yourself. To be happy without any external things to be… — Laleh Javaheri
Our talk of external things, our very notion of things, is just a conceptual apparatus that helps us to foresee and control the triggerings of… — Willard Van Orman Quine

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