In many of people's histories, the guilty party is always someone else, 'it is her fault or his fault, that I am in this state,' 'the fault is theirs, not mine.' Individuals seek to justify their actions through other persons, precisely because they do not want to confront their own lives. It requires too much courage to stop excusing or justifying oneself because of other people.
-- Alanna Aisha Aribalo, from The Pilgrim - A Timeless Journey to the Crystal City of Machu Picchu, Hecho el Deposito Legal en la Biblioteca Nacional del Peru, 2008.

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much love, light and laughter,
ananya.

*~Come play with my children feel the peace and Scatter some joy.~*
~*Blowing out someone else's candle doesn't make your's burn any brighter.*~
We can't all be stars, but we can all twinkle.
We may not have it all together, but together we have it all.

We make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars, as if we were villains on necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion.
~William Shakespeare, King Lear, Edmund at act 1, sc. 2

My conscience hath a thousand several tongues,
And every tongue brings in a several tale,
And every tale condemns me for a villain.
Perjury, perjury, in the highest degree,
Murder, stern murder, in the direst degree,
All several sins, all used in each degree,
Throng to the bar, crying all, "Guilty! Guilty!
~William Shakespeare, King Richard III

[W]e are all guilty in some Measure of the same narrow way of Thinking ... when we fancy the Customs, Dresses, and Manners of other Countries are ridiculous and extravagant, if they do not resemble those of our own.
~Joseph Addison

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He wrapped himself in quotations—as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
—Rudyard Kipling

When one person makes an accusation, check to be sure he himself is not the guilty one. Sometimes it is those whose case is weak who make the most clamour
~ Piers Anthony

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Things ain't what they used to be and probably never was. ~ Will Rogers