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One of my key realizations about happiness, and a point oddly under-emphasized by positive psychologists, given its emphasis in popular culture, is that outer order contributes to inner calm. More than it should.

— Gretchen Rubin

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

One of my most important 'Secrets of Adulthood': Outer order contributes to inner calm.

— Gretchen Rubin

If the mind is calm, your spontaneity and honest thoughts appear. You become more spontaneous.

— Chade-Meng Tan

The calm mind allows one to connect with the inner self, the Soul, the very source of our being. That's where the music lives. That's where my music comes from.

— Clarence Clemons

Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. Like beams in a house or bones to a body, so is order to all things.

— Robert Southey

Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.

— Henry Van Dyke

Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that's very important for good health.

— Dalai Lama

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.

— Thomas Merton

I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.

— Abigail Adams

✗Opposing Perspectives

Order is never observed; it is disorder that attracts attention because it is awkward and intrusive.

— Eliphas Levi

I always feel more comfortable in chaotic surroundings. I don't know why that is. I think order is dull. There is something about this kind of desire for order, particularly in Anglo Saxon cultures, that drive out this ability for the streets to become a really exotic, amorphous, chaotic, organic place where ideas can, basically, develop.

— Malcolm Mclaren