Seneca the Younger Quotes

Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.

I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves.

Each is responsible for his own actions.

If I laugh a couple of times a day, I'm doing good. People think it's their God-given right to be happy, and it's just not. It's something you've got to work at. I like to paint the human condition, and the human condition is not smiles and happy people.

I always felt like, well, if TLC doesn't do good, it's because of our own recognizance.

The great escape of our times is escape from personal responsibility for the consequences of one's own behavior.

Almost all unhappiness in life comes from the tendency to blame someone else.

I don't think anybody can be held accountable or responsible for anyone's behaviors expect the individual. This goes beyond that particular situation.

I'm not one to blame anyone else for anything. And I don't think anyone else should either.

You and only you are responsible for your life choices and decisions.

Never accept the blame for what evil people do. We are all responsible for our own actions.

You are responsible for the world that you live in. It is not government's responsibility. It is not your school's or your social club's or your church's or your neighbor's or your fellow citizen's. It is yours, utterly and singularly yours.

We make our own choices and we're each responsible for them. Blame and credit belong to the individual. You haven't the right to claim either from someone else.

When you think everything is someone else's fault, you will suffer a lot.

The ego's form of happiness can't exist without unhappiness. The ego will be happy when something good happens but unhappy when it ends.

You must accept responsibility for your actions. This doesn't include reactions, interactions or transactions if you're thinkin' loophole.

Trying to be happy in this world is greatest illusion.

The evil done by oneself, self-begotten, self-bred, crushes the foolish, as a diamond breaks a precious stone.

Self-pity is an acid which eats holes in happiness.

What a bummer it is to be a human being.

Ourselves are to ourselves the cause of ill.

It is harder to be unhappy when you are eating.

I want that. I want that awful intense and serious unhappiness, cos then I might feel better, and then I might be happy.

One is responsible for one's own life. Passivity provides no protection.

All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for external reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration. You may succeed in making another feel guilty about something by blaming him, but you won't succeed in changing whatever it is about you that is making you unhappy.