Unhappiness

“Unhappiness is caused by focusing on yourself and believing the external world is holding you down and victimizing you.”
--Jeffrey Fry

External Distress

“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”
--Marcus Aurelius

External Happiness

“The ordinary man places his life’s happiness in things external to him, so that when he loses them or finds them disappointing, the foundation of his happiness is destroyed. In other words, his center of gravity is not himself.”
--Arthur Schopenhauer

Monsters Within

“Fighting external monsters is easy in comparison to how we fight those within us.”
--Jeffrey Fry

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A Challenging Life

“Life is too challenging for external rewards to sustain us. The joy is in the journey.”
--Bradley Whitford

Hold Your Power

“We give our power away when we make external causes responsible for our self-worth.”
--Kimberly Key