Quotes About Responsibility

We are all stumbling and falling under our own crosses, those carved from our hands, our sweat, and those not of our own making.

God helps those who help themselves.' ... If God waits around to see if we can pull off miracles without him, then I conclude that God is playing games with us.

Nothing ever happens to just one person.

If you keep someone else's secret long enough, it becomes your own.

Saving up to buy things you want and deserve is a way of taking control of your life and your happiness, of recognizing that no one but you is responsible for getting you what you want in this world.

They might get through work but they go home and sleep

The soul must stretch over the cosmogonic abysses, while the body performs its daily duties.

Persons of strong character are usually the happiest. They do not blame others for troubles that can be traced to their own actions and lack of understanding. They know that no one has the power to add to their happiness or detract from it, unless they themselves allow the adverse thoughts or wicked actions of others to affect them.

Keen intelligence is two-edged," Master once remarked in reference to Kumar's brilliant mind. "It may be used constructively or destructively, like a knife, either to cut the boil of ignorance, or to decapitate oneself. Intelligence is rightly guided only after the mind has acknowledged the inescapability of spiritual law.

Fulfilling one's earthly responsibilities need not separate man from God, provided he maintains mental uninvolvement with egotistical desires and plays his part in life as a willing instrument of the Divine.

he who discards his worldly duties can justify himself only by assuming some kind of responsibility toward a much larger family." The

there he is like butter on water, and not like the unchurned, easily diluted milk of undisciplined humanity. Fulfilling one's earthly responsibilities need not separate man from God, provided he maintains mental uninvolvement with egotistical desires and plays his part in life as a willing instrument of the Divine. There

He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord: but he that is married careth for the things of the world, how he may please his wife." 1 I had analysed the lives of many of my friends who, after undergoing certain spiritual discipline, had then married. Launched on the sea of worldly responsibilities, they had forgotten their resolutions to meditate deeply. To

The law of demand and supply reaches into subtler realms than I had supposed." Ananta spoke with a spiritual enthusiasm never before noticeable. "I understand for the first time your indifference to the vaults and vulgar accumulations of the world." Late as it was, my brother insisted that he receive diksha into kriya yoga. The 'guru' Mukunda had to shoulder the responsibility of two unsought disciples in one day.

the highest yogic attainments are not barred to the family man. Even in the world, the yogi who faithfully discharges his responsibilities, without personal motive or attachment, treads the sure path of enlightenment.

God gave freedom to man, and man has misused that freedom; this is the cause of all suffering.

Self-care is never a selfish act - it is simply good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer others. Anytime we can listen to true self and give the care it requires, we do it not only for ourselves, but for the many others whose lives we touch.

Forget. So there was my duty laid out in front of me, as simple and clear as a bowl of water: Remember.

Why him? Why not me? He asks the questions over and over, as if one day they might have a different answer, and the burden of guilt be lifted at last.

It would always be my burden, not that I lacked genius, but that I was fully aware of it.

If Henry Wingo had not been a violent man, I think he would have made a splendid father.

Because I'm an American, I let her die by degrees, isolated and abandoned by her family. She often asks me to murder her as an act of kindness and charity. I barely have the courage to visit her.

Leadership in today's world has never been so important and at the same time so difficult.

Crystal clear roles characterize high performance teams. Every team member is clear about his or her particular role as well as those of the other team members.