This misfortune you find is of your own manufacture.
Each one of us reaps what we ourselves have sown. These miseries under which we suffer, these bondages under which we struggle, have been caused by ourselves, and none else in the universe is to blame. God is the least to blame for it.
Let us remember there is not a poor person in the United States who was not made poor by his own shortcomings.
People have to go through what they have to go through. I think in some cases you sort of bring things on yourself and that's what you want it to be than that's the way it is.
Not all or even most suffering is at the hands of fate; it befalls us at our invitation.
We, we, and none else, are responsible for what we suffer. We are the effects, and we are the causes.
We cause our diseases. We are directly responsible for any illness that happens to us.
Events, circumstances, etc., have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown.
