“What you're blaming yourself for is being who you are. And that's no one's fault and nothing you can change.”
Source: City of Ashes
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Interview with Judy McGuire for Punk Magazine in 2001. McGuire, Judy, Joe Strummer Interview, 2001, Punk Magazine http://www.punkmagazine.com/stuff/morestuff/joe_strummer.html,

“The fault is in the one who blames. Spirit sees nothing to criticize.”
As quoted in Rumi Wisdom: Daily Teachings from the Great Sufi Master (2000) by Timothy Freke
Variant: The fault is in the blamer — Spirit sees nothing to criticize.
“There's nobody can fix this but yourself. You are the only one who can make the changes.”
Ch 11 - p.236
Novels, Midwinter Break (2017)

Source: Kodokan Judo (1882), p. 24
Context: One more type who can benefit from the practice of judo are the chronically discontented, who readily blame others for what is really their own fault. These people come to realize that their negative frame of mind runs counter to the principle of maximum efficiency and that living in conformity with the principle is the key to a forward-looking mental state.

This quote was taken from the Synergy's Echoes page ( December, 1991 Houston, Texas, KLOL FM Echoes of Exposure with David Sadoff ).

Within You Without You, from Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)
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“That's bullshit. You're being deliberately unpleasant. I suppose you can't help yourself, can you?”
To then Shadow minister for Health Nicola Roxon after a debate before the Nation Press Gallery, subsequently quoted in http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/abbotts-day-from-hell/2007/10/31/1193618926551.html "Abbotts Day From Hell", Sydney Morning Herald, October 31, 2007
2007