External Attribution Quotes

#1. An external attribution exists to make you feel less shitty. It's a handy tool, wherein you perceive anything positive that happens to you as a mistake, subjective, and/or never a result of your own goodness. Negative things, alternately, are the objective truth. And they're always your fault.

Melissa Broder

#2. There is a way of beholding nature which is a form of prayer, a way of minding something with such clarity and aliveness that the rest of the world recedes. It ... gives the brain a small vacation.

Diane Ackerman

#3. Anger is the prelude to courage.

Eric Hoffer

#4. I am increasingly afflicted by vertigo where words mean nothing

Doris Lessing

#5. The truth was, I hated pretty much anything requiring school spirit, because, obviously, I had none.

Kody Keplinger

#6. I have been very fortunate to be successful in business, and I believe that it is right that people who have this type of wealth should give something back into society.

Alisher Usmanov

#7. Don't let anybody raise you. You've been raised.

Maya Angelou

#8. The woman serving me was wearing a white sports bra that looked like it had been mauled by tigers
desert isle chic.

Dave Eggers

#9. Eating a slice of white bread is like eating pure sugar.

Barry Sears

#10. The rich become rich by taking, and the poor by giving.

Bryce Courtenay

#11. It's better to be passionate about beautiful women than gay men.

Silvio Berlusconi

#12. I feel as though I would be delighted to come back into working in the film world, and working in the theater world again. I'm just gonna see what happens.

Karen Allen