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Quotes About Obligation

To realize one's destiny is a person's only obligation.
~ Paulo Coelho
To realize one's destiny is a person's only real obligation and when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
~ Paulo Coelho
Often in the search for your destiny you will find yourself obliged to change direction
~ Paulo Coelho
To realise one's destiny is a person's only real obligation.
~ Paulo Coelho
To realize one's Personal Legend is a person's only real obligation.
~ Paulo Coelho
To realize one's destiny is a person's only real obligation.
~ Paulo Coelho
What remains will be the love that moves the heavens, the stars, people, flowers, insects, the love that obliges us all to walk across the ice despite the danger, that fills us with joy and with fear, and gives meaning to everything.
~ Paulo Coelho
And yet we feel obliged to repress our emotions and our desires, because they don't fit with what we call "maturity.
~ Paulo Coelho
Old One, the tenant said apologetically. It is none of my business and I ought to die, but after all they are the children of your elder brother's son who after all is the first in the next generation after you.
~ Pearl S. Buck
It was not enough that she had never loved him. Love had nothing to do with responsibility.
~ Pearl S. Buck
One would have said he was his son's servant rather than his father.
~ Pearl S. Buck
I don't want an angry song with no silver lining ending up on my album. Then I'd have to play, or feel obliged to play, that song every night in repetition as a mantra of anger.
~ Alex Ebert
Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
~ Samuel Johnson
The function of art is to struggle against obligation.
~ Amedeo Modigliani
Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent, but must develop it.
~ John Paul II
Anyone who reads a book with a sense of obligation does not understand the art of reading.
~ Lin Yutang
When we free ourselves we are not freed into a void. When we free ourselves we are freed into a dimension in which Art is an obligation.
~ Terence McKenna
People who make films don't think they have any obligation to help bring (perpetrators) to justice. They are only interested in art, not in justice.
~ Efraim Zuroff
God places the solitary in families,' comforting words from the Bible … families, by blood, by obligation, by necessity, by desire … and sometimes, if one is very lucky, by love.
~ Danielle Steel
I'm not canceling this trip." She added the words that strike terror into every traveler's heart. "It's non-refundable.
~ Unknown
How many times in life can we make decisions that are important but will not hurt anyone? Are we obligated- maybe we are- to say yes to any choice when no one will be hurt? We use the word hurt when talking about things like this because when these things go wrong it can feel as if you were hit in the sternum by a huge animal that's run for miles just to strike you.
~ Dave Eggers
Her student loans were voracious and demanded monthly feedings
~ Dave Eggers
We had traveled 4200 miles or whatever and thus were obligated to create something. We had to take the available materials and make something worthy.
~ Dave Eggers
That small act of noticing him when no one else did. That brief act of caring. Just one person seeing another's struggle and bringing them to their feet again. It was the difference between a cold world of being forever apart and a world where one could feel bound to another. Obligated to kindness.
~ Dave Eggers