The more you depend on forces outside your self, the more…

The more you depend on forces outside yourself, the more you are dominated by them.

— Harold Sherman

There is this thing called life. We live it, not as we intend or wish, but as we are driven on by forces outside…

— Sherwood Anderson

What has dawned on me is that focusing on the "finite planet" frame sends a message that we have gone as far as Nature…

— Frances Moore Lappé

I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self.

— Arthur Miller

The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

— Hugo Black

We appear to be programmed with the idea that there are 'things' outside of our self, and some are conscious, and some are not.

— Ray Kurzweil

My inside self and my outside self used to match. A compass needle pointed true north. Now the needle spins around and around indicating…

— Elizabeth Berg

“[...] this observing self often kills and withers anything that is under its scrutiny. The individual has now a persecuting observer in the very…

— Anonymous

If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one's self is like the heat in an oven. It makes passable Bath buns.…

— Alan Bradley

The roots of addiction can be seen in our search for happiness in something outside of our self, be it drugs, relationships, material possessions.

— Lee L Jampolsky

The degree to which campaigns have become dominated by marketing is breaking the spirit of democracy, and we're all just so sick of it,…

— David Weinberger

Music is a male-dominated field. Women are not always taken as seriously as we should be, so sometimes we have to put our foot…

— Missy Elliot

“...but it does involve a woman. A beautiful, lying, conniving, voluptuous, sexy as hell, witch of a woman, one who has in an inconceivably…

— Penny Alley

“You want to be dominated.”

— Maya Banks

I don't mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically; but as a woman, oh, God, as a woman I want to be dominated

— Anais Nin