Outside World Quotes

• Remember even though the outside world might be raining, if you keep on smiling the sun will soon show its face and smile back at you.

  Anna Lee

  Positive, Happiness, Smile

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• Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Sister, Sweet, Brother

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.1219, Delphi Classics

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• If you're looking for inner peace from the outside world, you're not going to get that. The inner peace starts with looking at you from the inside.

  Mary J. Blige

  Inner Peace, World, Ifs

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• There is still the outside world to contend with. A world of backfiring cars, and their human equivalents.

  David Sedaris

  Car, World, Humans

  David Sedaris (2010). “When You Are Engulfed In Flames”, p.12, Hachette UK

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• The conflicts we have with the outside world are often conflicts we have within ourselves.

  Bryant H. McGill

  World, Conflict

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• Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it's not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.

  Bette Davis

  Children, Believe, Home

  "The Added Dimension: Celebrating the Opportunities, Rewards, and Challenges of the Add Experience". Book by Kate Kelly, p. 128, July 23, 1998.

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• I like out, I like the outside world.

  Martin Freeman

  World

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• But true individuality is more about being in tune with who you truly are, whether you're expressing yourself physically, mentally, or spiritually; individuality arises from living without fear of what other might think or say about you and without being swayed by their opinions, leaving you free to lead life without caring about judgments made by the outside world.

  Kat Von D

  Caring, Thinking, Leaving

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• He might have been encased in a thick glass bubble, so separate did he feel from his three dining companions. It was a sensation with which he was only too familiar, that of walking in a giant sphere of worry, enclosed by it, watching his own terrors roll by, obscuring the outside world.

  J. K. Rowling

  Glasses, Worry, Dining

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• So long as we fear the outside world, we must cease to think of Swaraj.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Thinking, Long, World

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• We need students who can learn how to learn, who can discover how to push themselves and are generous enough and honest enough to engage with the outside world to make those dreams happen.

  Seth Godin

  Dream, Needs, World

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• Merripen, despite his fear of heights, had often climbed a ladder to wash the second floor window for her. He had wanted her view of the outside world to be clear. He had said the sky should always be blue for her.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Blue, Views, Sky

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• Certain people, in their eagerness to construct a world no external threat can penetrate build exaggeratedly high defense againts the outside world, againts new people, new places, different experiences and leave their own world stripped bare. It is there that bitterness begins irrevocable work.

  Paulo Coelho

  Different Experiences, People, Defense

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• I have to admit I've found myself doing the same things that a lot of other rock stars do or are forced to do. Which is not being able to respond to mail, not being able to keep up on current music, and I'm pretty much locked away a lot. The outside world is pretty foreign to me.

  Kurt Cobain

  Stars, Rocks, World

  "Kurt Cobain, The Rolling Stone Interview: Success Doesn't Suck". Interview with David Fricke, www.rollingstone.com. January 27, 1994.

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• And finally - he was neither able nor willing to prevent it - the self-loathing dammed up inside him spilled over and gushed out, gushed out of glaring eyes that grew ever grimmer, angrier, beneath the rim of his cap, flooding the outside world as perfect, vulgar hate.

  Patrick Süskind

  Hate, Eye, Self

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• And there was that letter from the Bramleys—that really made me feel good. You don’t find people like the Bramleys now; radio, television and the motorcar have carried the outside world into the most isolated places so that the simple people you used to meet on the lonely farms are rapidly becoming like people anywhere else. There are still a few left, of course—old folk who cling to the ways of their fathers and when I come across any of them I like to make some excuse to sit down and talk with them and listen to the old Yorkshire words and expressions which have almost disappeared.

  James Herriot

  Lonely, Father, Simple

  James Herriot (2012). “All Creatures Great and Small: The classic memoirs of a Yorkshire country vet”, p.313, Pan Macmillan

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• I..." He struggled to answer. "When everything was quiet, I went up to the corridor and the curtain in the livingroom was open just a crack... I could see outside. I watched, only for a few seconds." He had not seen the outside world for twenty-two months. There was no anger or reproach. It was Papa who spoke. How did it look?" Max lifted his head, with great sorrow and great astonishment. "There were stars," he said. "They burned by eyes.

  Markus Zusak

  Stars, Eye, Two

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• They want you to think that darkness or evil is only something that gets inflicted on you by the outside world, but I know better, and I think the freak does, too. Sometimes the darkness lives inside you, and sometimes it wins.

  Alexandra Bracken

  Winning, Thinking, Evil

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• In my contact with people, I find that, as a rule, it is only the little, narrow people who live for themselves, who never read good books, who do not travel, who never open up their souls in a way to permit them to come into contact with other souls – with the great outside world.

  Booker T. Washington

  Book, People, Soul

  W. E. B. Du Bois, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington (2012). “Three African-American Classics: Up from Slavery, The Souls of Black Folk and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass”, p.111, Courier Corporation

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• Your house, being the place in which you read, can tell us the position books occupy in your life, if they are a defense you set up to keep the outside world at a distance, if they area dream into which you sink as if into a drug, or bridges you cast toward the outside, toward the world that interests you so much that you want to multiply and extend its dimensions through books.

  Italo Calvino

  Dream, Distance, Book

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• A hotel, he told me, was a big house where a lot of people lived and ate and slept, but no one knew each other. He said that described most families in the outside world.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  People, House, World

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Survivor”, p.16, Random House

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• The outside world holds no interest for me without you." -Edward

  Stephenie Meyer

  World, Eclipse, Without You

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• People assume that they perceive reality as it is, that our senses accurately record the outside world. Yet the science suggests that, in important ways, people experience reality not as it is, but as they expect it to be.

  Jonah Lehrer

  Reality, People, Important

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• If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much. You have to be willing to take whatever you’ve done and whoever you were and throw them away. The more the outside world tries to reinforce an image of you, the harder it is to continue to be an artist, which is why a lot of times, artists have to say, “Bye. I have to go. I’m going crazy and I’m getting out of here.” And they go and hibernate somewhere. Maybe later they re-emerge a little differently. (Steve Jobs)

  Walter Isaacson

  Jobs, Crazy, Artist

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Steve Jobs”, p.190, Simon and Schuster

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• Without claiming to be exhaustive, I maintain that every philosophy reproduces within itself, in one way or another, the conflict in which it finds itself compromised and caught up in the outside world.

  Louis Althusser

  Philosophy, Way, World

  Louis Althusser, François Matheron, Olivier Corpet (2006). “Philosophy of the Encounter: Later Writings, 1978-87”, p.268, Verso

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