Blame Or Responsibility? 100 Things to Blame
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Blame or responsibility? Here is a list of 100 ways to blame and avoid responsibility for your life so that you can remain a victim or a martyr.
“It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.” —Cicero
“He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us His holy Spirit.” —I Thessalonians 4:8
“The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.” —Albert Ellis
- Be careful what you take on inside.
- Read and discover how CBT, REBT, & Stoicism evolved into one system: STPHFR.
- Blame or responsibility? The choice is easy when you master this system.
- Read and discover the best self-help system using CBT & REBT.
Blame Or Responsibility?
You can blame any one of, a combination of, or all of the following 100 reasons for your problems:
- abuse
- addiction
- additives
- adopted
- advantages
- air quality
- alcohol
- angels
- asbestos insulation
- bacteria
- balance
- biohazards
- biology
- birth experience
- birth order
- chemical imbalance
- childhood
- class
- computers
- conditioning
- culture
- depleted soils
- devils
- diet
- disease
- drugs
- economy
- education
- environment
- ethnic group
- exercise
- experience
- family
- fertilizers
- flow of chi
- food
- foster-care experiences
- fungus
- genes
- God
- greed
- harmony
- hereditary
- Heritage
- hormones
- human nature
- illness
- influences
- lack of …
- lack of love
- lead paint
- lead pipes
- maya (illusion)
- media
- men
- microbes
- moon: Eastern astrology
- neurology
- neighborhood
- opportunity
- parenting
- parents
- peers
- pesticides
- poisoned water
- poisoned air
- pollution
- posture
- power plants
- prejudice
- processed foods
- programming
- psychology
- race
- racism
- radon poisoning
- radiation
- relationships
- religious leaders
- religious training
- scripts
- sex
- single-parent home
- sociology
- spinal alignment
- spirits
- spiritual
- stress
- sun: Western astrology
- support system
- suppression
- teachers
- toxins
- trauma
- viruses
- vitamins
- water quality
- women
- work
- work environment
- Read and discover how CBT, REBT, & Stoicism evolved into one system: STPHFR.
- Blame or responsibility? The choice is easy when you master this system.
- Read and discover the best self-help system using CBT & REBT.
BLAME OR RESPONSIBILITY & LIFE OWNERSHIP
- You can blame or take responsibility for your mind, thinking, feeling, behavior, AND attitude.
Blame Or Responsibility?
Be The Person You Want to Be With
- Who would you rather be with?
- A person who whines, blames, and damns?
- A person who fixes what they can to overcome the obstacles that life presents?
Blame Or Responsibility?
Which do you think will help you the most?
- To blame other causes, such as those in the list above.
- To blame your thinking and to change it without blaming or damning your being.
- To blame your choices but not your being (self-hood).
- Read and discover the best self-help system using CBT & REBT.
- Read and discover how CBT, REBT, & Stoicism evolved into one system: STPHFR.
- Blame or responsibility? The choice is easy when you master this system.
Blame Or Responsibility?
Quotations Various Sources
Listed Alphabetically
“A baby expects to be soothed, but a mature adult soothes themselves.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“A man’s as miserable as he thinks he is.” —Marcus Seneca
“Adults are experts at self-disturbance and inept at self-soothing.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“And just as two wrongs don’t make a right, rage against offenders is probably the worst way to try to correct them.” —Albert Ellis and Robert A. Harper, A Guide to Rational Living, Third Edition, p. 130
“Are you part of the problem or part of the solution?” —Anonymous
“As long as the mind is in conflict–blaming, resisting, condemning–there can be no understanding. If I want to understand you, I must not condemn you, obviously.” —J. Krishnamurti, The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti, Volume V, p. 51
“Being right does not give you the right to damn.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.” —Galatians 6:4
“Damning is the worst form of demanding.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.” —Baruch Spinoza
“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.” —Mark Twain
“Either do not attempt at all, or go through with it.” —Ovid
“Even when people act nastily to you, don’t condemn them or retaliate.” —Albert Ellis and Robert A. Harper, A Guide to Rational Living, Third Edition, p. 205
“Give not over thy mind to heaviness, and afflict not thyself in thine own counsel.” —Ecclesiasticus 30:21
“Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.” —Samuel Johnson
“He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us His holy Spirit.” —I Thessalonians 4:8
“I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.” —Charles M. Schwab
“I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.” —Booker Taliaferro Washington, 1856-1915
“If pleasure first, then pain second.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.” —Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“If you would stop, really stop, damning yourself, others, and unkind conditions, you would find it almost impossible to upset yourself emotionally–about anything. Yes, anything.” —Albert Ellis and Robert A. Harper, A Guide to Rational Living, Third Edition, p. 127
“It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.” —Agnes Repplier
“Let us not burden our remembrances with a heaviness that is gone.” —William Shakespeare
“Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.” —Jean-Paul Sartre, 1905-1980
“No one has ever gotten to anyone.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“Only God can damn without serving Satan.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.” —Anonymous
“Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.” —Erica Jong
“Teaching the principle of emotional responsibility can be one of the hardest tasks in REBT as clients may have habitually blamed others for their problems and now the therapist is pointing to the true source of their emotional problems–themselves.” —Michael Neenan and Windy Dryden, Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy: Advances in Theory and Practice, p. 43
“The moment you blame anyone for anything, your relationship and your personal power deteriorate.” —Brian Koslow
“The willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life is the source from which self-respect springs.” —Joan Didion
“There is no man so low that the cure for his condition does not lie strictly within himself.” —Thomas L. Masson
“We can actually put the essence of neurosis in a single word: blaming–or damning.” —Albert Ellis and Robert A. Harper, A Guide to Rational Living, Third Edition, p. 127
“When you blame others, you give up your power to change.” —Anonymous
“You are what you hate, not what you ate.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“You can overcome anything if you don’t bellyache.” —Bernard Baruch
- Read and discover how CBT, REBT, & Stoicism evolved into one system: STPHFR.
- Blame or responsibility? The choice is easy when you master this system.
- Read and discover the best self-help system using CBT & REBT.
Blame Or Responsibility?
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- Read and discover how CBT, REBT, & Stoicism evolved into one system: STPHFR.
- Blame or responsibility? The choice is easy when you master this system.
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- Read and discover how CBT, REBT, & Stoicism evolved into one system: STPHFR.
- Blame or responsibility? The choice is easy when you master this system.
- Read and discover the world’s best breathing exercise for your feelings and stress.