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“They ought not to have let things come to this," he said, but he was never very clear even to himself who or why "They" were nor what "This" was. Some person or persons unknown was to blame. He hat...”
“I felt Mr Willard had deserted me. I thought he must have planned it all along, but Buddy said No, his father simply couldn't stand the sight of sickness and especially his own son's sickness, beca...”
“There's nothing more unattractive than a man who blames predestination for his own failures and a woman who blames men for her own vulnerability...Blame thyself”
“Most people throw away their personal power... If you want to know where, look at who and what you hate, blame, resent, and envy.”
“A stupid is one who thinks that those in power today had clandestine means of getting there, yet wants to get there without thinking of the clandestine route they would be taking.”
“For the first time in my life I began to realize that it is not evil and brutality, but nearly always weakness, that is to blame for the worst things that happen in this world.”
“I know you would like to blame the world, but the fact is that life is an 'up to you' thing.”
“The world and everyone in it is always ready to blame a man for anything when he is already knocked down.”
“The problem was I always took the blame. But he was wrong. But I thought me taking the blame could fix it.”
“We habitually erect a barrier called blame that keeps us from communicating genuinely with others, and we fortify it with our concepts of who's right and who's wrong. We do that with the people who...”
“Blame is such a self-defeating choice. It renders one helpless, putting any solution well out of reach, for we rarely can change others. Consider this, a solution well within your reach, someone yo...”
“It is senseless to blame others or your environment for your miseries. Change begins from the moment you muster the courage to act. When you change, the environment will change. The power to change...”
“Don't let this consume you. Try not to blame me. Don't live in hate. Or grief. Just live.”
“Dont blame any one, including you. There is something called destiny.”
“When all this is over, people will try to blame the Germans alone, and the Germans will try to blame the Nazis alone, and the Nazis will try to blame Hitler alone. They will make him bear the sins ...”
“If we always think the other guy is the reason for our lack of success, then its time to start planning ways to lift ourselves up, rather than planning ways to take him down.”
“Your downfall is a preparation for your up-rise. If you dont know this secret, you will remain on the floor, blaming your legs instead of your head!”
“There's enough grief in this world without always getting into whose fault it is.”
“Of course I fall. Yet, I incessantly blame my falls on circumstance so that I can deny my own inadequacy and therefore remain my own god. And so, I am left to ask which will come first, the fall th...”
“If I could just write it down in a piece of paper, then maybe she could get a decent night's sleep, eat a little of her dinner. Maybe she could have a minute's worth of peace.”
