We ourselve are the authors of almost all our woes and griefs, of which we so unreasonably complain.

The true source of our sufferings has been our timidity.

All suffering is caused by my identifying myself with something, whether that something is within me or outside of me.

We suffer but little from suffering itself; but from the manner wherein we accept it overwhelming sorrow may spring.

We are wrong in believing that it comes from without. For indeed we create it within us, out of our very substance.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

Of most dreadful suffering, I am the cause.

We literally paid for our own oppression.

The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.

We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.

We create our fate every day . . . most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.

What a lamentable thing it is that men should blame the gods and regard us as the source of their troubles, when it is their own wickedness that brings them sufferings worse than any which destiny allots them.

Our suffering comes from our unlived life — the unseen, unfelt parts of our psyche.

All suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their own happiness or satisfaction

we're responsible for our own lives.