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"Men are not worried by things, but by their ideas about things. When we meet with difficulties, become anxious or troubled, let us not blame others, but rather ourselves. That is: our ideas about things."
"I praise loudly and I blame softly."
"If a man be under the influence of anger his conduct will not be correct."
"Do not blame the food because you have no appetite."
"If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty."
"He is lifeless that is faultless."
"No human being can control love, and no one is to blame either for feeling it or for losing it. What alone degrades a woman is falsehood."
"Reproach is shame, blame, disgrace, disapproval and a disrespectful attitude toward yourself. When you're under reproach, your behavior shows it."
"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."
"It is the act of an ill-instructed man to blame others for his own bad condition; it is the act of one who has begun to be instructed, to lay the blame on himself; and of one whose instruction is completed, neither to blame another, nor himself."
"We all feel the urge to condemn ourselves out of guilt, to blame others for our misfortunes and to fantasize about total disaster."
"Time affords us the ability to blame past errors on others while whole heartedly pronouncing our futures successes."
"Blame the city I'm a product of it"
"You should know," said Estella. "I am what you have made me. Take all the praise, take all the blame; take all the success, take all the failure; in short, take me."
"Parents have to understand: if your kid isn't you, don't blame the kid."
"I've only myself to blame for it, my impotence most of all and my weakness. If I do any good work now it will be only by chance."
"I don't blame you for everything, she told me. Just the stuff my friends & I can agree on."
"The truth is that the terrorists are motivated by an ideology. It has nothing to do with what we do. They will give you all the excused to justify their terrorism. They will blame the victim. But the truth is that they are doing all these killings because they are waging Jihad. They will continue killing us until we submit and surrender. What they want is establishment of Khalifat worldwide."
"I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the center of the world."
"A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents."
