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An ignorant person is inclined to blame others for his own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise man never has to blame another or himself.
EpictetusRead
Highly proactive people don't blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice.
Stephen CoveyRead
You can't blame gravity for falling in love.
Albert EinsteinRead
We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. None else has the blame, none has the praise.
Swami VivekanandaRead
I think that we need to change the culture, not blame the people that are playing the only game that exists.
Gloria SteinemRead
You could begin to notice whenever you find yourself blaming others or justifying yourself. If you spent the rest of your life just noticing that and letting it be a way to uncover the silliness of the human condition-the tragic yet comic drama that we all continually buy into-you could develop a lot of wisdom and a lot of kindness as well as a great sense of humor.
Pema ChodronRead
As soon as we react, we become slaves. A man blames me, and I immediately react in the form of anger. A little vibration which he created made me a slave.
Swami VivekanandaRead
Blaming the system is soothing because it lets you off the hook. But when the system is broken, we wonder why you were relying in the system in the first place.
Seth GodinRead
Even when people act nastily to you, don't condemn them or retaliate.
Albert EllisRead
And just as two wrongs don't make a right, rage against offenders is probably the worst way to try to correct them.
Albert EllisRead
Now, when you are aware, you see the whole process of your thinking and action, but it can happen only when there is no condemnation. That is. When I condemn something, I do not understand it.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiRead
If you remember your past too well you start blaming your present for it. Look what they did to me, that's what caused me to be like this, it's not my fault. Permit me to correct you: it probably is your fault. And kindly spare me the details.
Julian BarnesRead
If you think you control things that are in the control of others, you will lament. You will be disturbed and you will blame both gods and men.
EpictetusRead
Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.
OvidRead
Some people have a mistaken idea that all thoughts disappear through meditation and we enter a state of blankness. There certainly are times of great tranquility when concentration is strong and we have few, if any, thoughts. But other times, we can be flooded with memories, plans or random thinking. It's important not to blame yourself.
Sharon SalzbergRead
Nobody is a real loser-until they start blaming somebody else.
John WoodenRead
Blaming is a way to protect your heart, trying to protect what is soft and open and tender in yourself.
Pema ChodronRead
It is the part of an uneducated person to blame others where he himself fares ill; to blame himself is the part of one whose education has begun; to blame neither another nor his own self is the part of one whose education is already complete.
EpictetusRead
I like to praise and reward loudly, to blame quietly.
Catherine The GreatRead
Now I realize that the trees blossom in Spring and bear fruit in Summer without seeking praise; and they drop their leaves in Autumn and become naked in Winter without fearing blame.
Khalil GibranRead
I lost the match. I blame only myself for this. There were many opportunities to win. But I missed them, no one else.
Anatoly KarpovRead

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