“Never compare your insides to everyone else's outsides.”
“Never compare your inside with somebody else's outside.-Gabe Singleton remembering his counselor's first advice-”
“I realized that I'd been comparing the inside of my life with the outside of everyone else's; measuring my own fortunes against the cheerful how-are-you-I'm-fine facade that people put on for each other.”
“I am not an outsider. I am an insider who discovered that everyone else had gone out.”
“It was like I was inside a fishbowl in the middle of a typhoon, and everyone else was on the outside cluelessly enjoying lovely weather.”
“The mind self-edits. The mind airbrushes. It's a different thing to be inside a body than outside. From outside, you can look, inspect, compare. From inside there is no comparison.”