Quotes About Responsibility

This is how guilt infects, if you're afraid that someone will be angry with you, you immediately start feeling angry with them.

I believe we can't trust the gods. They don't shape our lives; we have to do that ourselves. It's not about whose gods are right, because there is no right or wrong. We have to be able to depend on ourselves and trust ourselves. If we can gather strength from our beliefs, then that's enough.

Men who refuse to use condoms do not deserve to be fucked by anyone but other men who refuse to use condoms.

We tend to hold that popping medicine in our mouths and swallowing is the extent of our involvement in the healing process. We believe that if we get better, it's because the medicine worked magic, not the person.

Ich aber konnte überhaupt keine Schuld in dem Kind entdecken, seit es nicht mehr so wehrlos und stumm wie in den ersten Wochen war. Und damals war es wohl nicht unschuldig, sondern nur unfähig zu einer Äußerung gewesen, ein Bündel auf feinem Fleisch und Flachs, mit dünnem Atem, mit einem riesigen dumpfen Kopf, der wie ein Blitzableiter die Botschaften der Welt entschärfte.

I will tell you a terrible secret: language is punishment. Language must encompass all things and in it all things must again transpire according to guilt and the degree of guilt.

If we don't do better than those we accuse, we have no right to complain.

And I wonder how we could possibly have ended up in this place. Why I didn't see the warning signs far enough in advance to prevent this from happening. I try to hold back the sob swooping up from deep inside me like a tsunami from the ocean floor. But I can't, and I bend forward, crying for my failures as a mother

reset to remind you that you're the one in control of your marriage, not Lizzy.

Most people justify their actions with excuses they believe cancel out their own accountability. Most people believe they had no choice to do anything other than what they did.

Wasn't there something inherently selfish about confessions, anyway? The guilty party's chance to purge their guilt. Never mind that another person got flattened in the process. Ignorance was bliss. No pain in not knowing.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility. – Eleanor Roosevelt

I've heard it said that we are the sum total of every choice we've ever made. I don't think anyone could be a better example of that than I am.

If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late." ? Henny Youngman

He felt an enormous responsibility in being the one to declare their worth or lack thereof. What if he threw away something that had been especially meaningful to his grandmother, a family memory that once discarded by him would no longer exist?

Like she's realized, really realized, she's failed as a mother. I instantly regret being the one to bring the realization to the surface again.

Helena Ekdahl, the famous actress – who was brought to Uppsala by her rich, young husband – who bought a theatre for her – and allowed her to play in it until he decided it was time to start a family.

Für mich hat jeder Mensch das Recht, sich zu verändern, und wenn jemand dabei ein wertvolles Mitglied einer Gesellschaft wird, dann soll er auch die damit verbundenen Chancen bekommen, sofern er sich klar von Vergehen distanziert und dafür gezahlt oder gebüßt hat. Ich habe jetzt acht harte Jahre hinter mir, mit allem, was man sich vorstellen kann, mit Bombendrohungen und Gerichtsverhandlungen, und denke schon, dass ich inzwischen einen Beitrag für diese Gesellschaft leiste.

I have grown up alone. I've taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18.

I don't have the luxury of having a dog myself because I travel too much, but I love walking and cuddling somebody else's dog.

Having a purebred human baby is like having a purebred dog; it's nothing but vanity, human vanity.

The Bible told me to be a, "fisher of men". I'm trying, but it gets so exhausting to have to reel them in just to throw them back once you realize it's just another crappie.

Your past doesn't define you. Only your present and your future. If your life is screwed up, stop making excuses. What are you going to do about it today?

To the young and the not so young who make decisions to obey or not to obey, conscious of their personal responsibility for the outcome regardless of which decision they make, no matter who gave the order.