Byron Katie Quotes

If you're a victim, you're always mad, but never at yourself. You're mad at somebody else.

It's easy to blame other people when things aren't going well.

As long as you blame someone or something else - something outside you that's bigger than you are - as the source of your problems, the problems won't get solved.

We are really the victims of our own problems.

That's one of our biggest problems, it's always somebody else's fault instead of our own fault.

I love playing women, and I think that this is a throughline to a lot of the characters I've played - they all have this aspect of being wronged. And I think, a lot of the time, the characters are actually wronged by themselves, and they find someone else to blame it on.

People don't want to accept the responsibility for their own weakness, so they place the blame on something that they're not responsible for, like disease or genetics.

A loser is someone who makes excuses and alibis and blames everyone else for their losses and failures.

We cannot have a world where everyone is a victim. "I'm this way because my father made me this way. I'm this way because my husband made me this way." Yes, we are indeed formed by traumas that happen to us. But you must take charge, you must take over, you are responsible.

The fox condemns the trap, not himself.

When you’re focused outside and believe that your problem is caused by someone else, rather than by your attachment to the story you’re believing in the moment, then you are your own victim, and the situation appears to be hopeless.

Weak people never admit that they are responsible for their own state. They always blame either circumstances or others.

Don't blame anyone or anything for your situation or problems. When you do that, you are saying that you are powerless over your own life—which is utter crap. An empowering step to reclaiming your life is taking responsibility.

A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark.

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

I can't even say I made my own mistakes. Really - one has to ask oneself - what dignity is there in that?

If people believe they can be in the wrong place at the wrong time, and they have no control over outside circumstances, those thoughts of fear, separation, and powerlessness, if persistent, can attract them to being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

When it's all you, you can't blame a bear. You gotta bear the burden yourself.

My bad luck got tangled up with my bad decisions, and I'm paying for it.

I don't believe we can get very far, with leaders who write off half the nation as a bunch of victims who never take responsibility for their own lives.

As long as you feel like a victim, you are one.

Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.

Whenever you think something or some person is ruining your life, it's you. A victimization mentality is so debilitating.

As long as you think that the cause of your problem is "out there" - as long as you think that anyone or anything is responsible for your suffering - the situation is hopeless. It means that you are forever in the role of victim, that you’re suffering in paradise.

No excuses; those were just weak.