Quotes About Responsibility

They shared the chores of living as some couples do --she did most of the work and he appreciated it.

Captain Kidd said, It has been said by authorities that the law should apply the same to the king and to the peasant both, it should be written out and placed in the city square for all to see, it should be written simply and in the language of the common people, lest the people grow weary of their burdens. The young man tipped his head toward the Captain with an odd look on his face, It was a kind of longing, a kind of hope. Who said that? Hammurabi.

knowing in his fragile bones that it was the duty of men who aspired to the condition of humanity to protect children and kill for them if necessary. It comes to a person most clearly when he has daughters.

What lover would not be terrified if he were to weigh for one moment the full implication of his declaration, which is not made lightly, to commit himself for life?

Nadie puede dar lo que no le pertenece.

Únicamente en los momentos en los que me haces sufrir cuando no corro peligro. No debiste aceptar ser un dios para mí, si los deberes de los dioses te dan miedo, y todo el mundo sabe que los dioses no son tan tiernos. Ya me has visto llorar. Ahora te queda el tomarle el gusto a mis lágrimas.

Two more divorces. Free again, but it's just a feeling; freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose—and commit myself to—what is best for me.

In love, no one can harm anyone else; we are each of us responsible for our own feelings and cannot blame someone else for what we feel. It hurt when I lost each of the various men I fell in love with. Now, though, I am convinced that no one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.

If you love someone, you must be prepared to set them free.

To realize one's destiny is a person's only obligation.

Because you believed I was capable of behaving decently, I did.

Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and commit myself to - what is best for me.

In love, no one can harm anyone else; we are each responsible for our own feelings and cannot blame someone else for what we feel.

It's not what enters men's mouth that is evil, said the alchemist. It's what comes out of their mouths that is.

In the beginning there was only a small amount of injustice abroad in the world, but everyone who came afterwards added their portion, always thinking it was very small and unimportant, and look where we have ended up today.

It is part of the human nature always to judge others very severely and,when the wind turns against us,always to find an excuse for our own misdeeds,or to blame someone else for our mistakes.

All religions lead to the same God, and all deserve the same respect. Anyone who chooses a religion is also choosing a collective way for worshipping and sharing the mysteries. Nevertheless, that person is the only one responsible for his or her actions along the way and has no right to shift responsibility for any personal decisions on to that religion.

Free again, but it's just a feeling; freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and commit yourself to what is best for you.

We are the ones who create the messes in our heads. It does not come from outside.

No one can manipulate anyone else. In any relationship, both parties know what they're doing. even if one complains later on that they were used.

I fell asleep and dreamed that life was only Happiness. I woke and discovered that life was Duty. I did my Duty and discovered that life was Happiness.

But other people also 'invite' us to behave like victims, when they complain about the unfairness of life, for example, and ask us to agree, to offer advice, to participate. Be careful. When you join in that game you always end up losing.

The greatest gift God gave us is the power to make decisions.

The only power you have on this planet is the power of your decisions.