It is senseless to blame others or your environment for your miseries. Change begins from the moment you muster the courage to act. When you change, the environment will change. The power to change the world is found nowhere but within our own life.

Daisaku Ikeda
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When Nelson Mandela said, “It is senseless to blame others or your environment for your miseries. Change begins from the moment you muster the courage to act. When you change, the environment will change. The power to change the world is found nowhere but within our own life,” he was speaking about how difficult it is to change the world when the world is not changing.

Often times it is easier to blame others or your environment for failures that occur in life. However, this only leaves one with an unfair view on life and how they can improve their lives.

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