Quotes About Obligation

In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.

Destiny and desire, karma and kama, are the two forces that propel the world. Destiny is a reaction, an obligation that follows an action. Desire is an aspiration that forces the world to transform in a particular way. Destiny creates fate. Desire is based on free will. We have the freedom to accept life as it is or to make it the way we want it to be. That is what makes us Manavas or humans.

You renounced your right to think independently when you let someone else play your game for you. His word is your word. And you must be committed to keeping it. For to keep one's word is dharma. To hate is not dharma.

Actions in Hindu mythology are never 'right', though they are often necessary or obligatory, and they always come at a price.

A yajaman is a karta too; but all kartas are not yajamans.

Destiny and desire, karma and kama, are the two forces that propel the world. Destiny is a reaction, an obligation that follows an action. Desire is an aspiration that forces the world to transform in a particular way. Destiny creates fate. Desire is based on free will. We have the freedom to accept life as it is or to make it the way we want it to be. That is what makes us Manavas or humans. Kaikeyi

secepat itu Indi memvisualisasikan sepasang sepatu tua yang disembunyikan di bawah tangga. Sepatu nyaman yang selalu dipakai ketika kaki pemiliknya letih. Namun, ketika sang pemilik ingin menghadapi dunia, dia tak mungkin memilih sepatu itu. Akan dipakainya sepatu mentereng yang memang diperuntukkan sebagai pendampingnya. Dunia menuntut demikian. Sekalipun tidak nyaman, tapi itu kewajiban.

Gratitude is complicated. Feelings of dependence—and interdependence—can be both elusive and resisted, mostly because they are caught up with soul-crushing ideas of obligation and debt. But if gratitude is mutual reliance upon (instead of payback for) shared gifts, we awaken to a profound awareness of our interdependence. Dependence may enslave the soul, but interdependence frees us.

Neighbourliness is not a quality in other people, it is simply their claim on ourselves.

In short, it is much easier to see a thing through from the point of view of abstract principle than from that of concrete responsibility.

Luther had said that grace alone can save; his followers took up his doctrine and repeated it word for word. But they left out its invariable corollary, the obligation to discipleship...The justification of the sinner in the world degenerated into the justification of sin and the world. Costly grace was turned into cheap grace without discipleship.

Paul] has no intention to instruct the Christian community about the task and responsibility of government. His entire concern is with the responsibility of the Christian community towards the State.

Poštovanje smo dužni samo ponekom. A ljubav svakom ko nas je voleo.

De quién es la imagen, e inscripción que tiene? Le responden: De César. 25 Les dijo entonces: Paguen pues a César lo que es de César; y a Dios lo que es de Dios.

It was such a dismal time in Japan. It almost seemed as if they were dying as a people, their economy in tatters, the population dwindling, the remaining citizens isolated and adrift. Had they been wrong about everything? Kenzo wondered. The power of consensus and obligation, the imperatives of racial purity and harmony?

We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.

Life is like jury duty. Just do it and get it over with.

My life is a gift not an obligation and I Get To make the most of it.

Talent is a gift that brings with it an obligation to serve the world, and not ourselves, for it is not of our making.

Life has always been a small matter with me when duty points the way

Life obliges me to do something, so I paint.

To be Christian is to be obliged to engage the world, pursuing God's restorative purposes over all of life.

Permanent remorse about failing to do your human duty, in my opinion, can be worse than losing your life.

The point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.