Quotes About Responsibility

as you realize that you are responsible for your reactions in any given moment, others will cease to have any power or control over you.

be miserable or motivate yourself whatever has to be done its always your choice

parents are not for leaning upon, but rather exist to make leaning unnecessary.

no one can make us upset without our consent

You are the sum total of the choices that you make in your life.

Only you can improve your lot or make yourself happy. It is up to you to take control of your own mind, and then practice feeling and behaving in the ways that you choose.

So raise your children to be self-sufficient, to make their own decisions as soon as they're able, and to feel pride in the decisions they do make.

a good man is but a bad man's teacher, and a bad man is but a good man's job.

This is the only thing that you need to do for vision, happiness, release from pain…. Say only this, but mean it with no reservations…I am responsible for what I see. I chose the feelings I experience…

All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you.

What was driving you was the trajectory of Well-Being. What was driving you was the understanding that you weren't born to be dependent on someone else. And you did not come to use someone else as your excuse for not being in alignment.

Be a caretaker, not an owner.

Opinions are of very little value by themselves. It is only what we do with them that makes any difference in the world.

Nurturing things without possessing them

Tus pensamientos son algo que tú controlas y que tiene su origen en ti

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you . . .

You are behaving as a fool if you look outside of you for an explanation of how you should feel or what you should do. Taking credit as well as responsibility for yourself is the first step to eliminating this erroneous zone. Be your own hero.

refuse to participate in activities that cause harm to anything on the planet.

see your role in the transformation of the planet.

Decide that any and all unhappiness that you choose will never be the result of someone else, but rather that it will be the result of you and your own behavior. Remind yourself constantly that any externally caused unhappiness reinforces your own slavery, since it assumes that you have no control over yourself or them, but they have control over you.

Feelings are not just emotions that happen to you. Feelings are reactions you choose to have. If you are in charge of your own emotions, you don't have to choose self-defeating reactions.

The truth, as I see it, is that everything you think, say, and do is a choice—and you don't need to think, speak, or act as you've done for your entire life. When you abandon making choices, you enter the vast world of excuses. Right now, while reading this book

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.*

As long as you feel that you have to do anything because it is expected of you in a particular relationship, and your doing it creates any resentment or your not doing it any guilt, you can count yourself as having work to do in this erroneous zone.