Quotes About Responsibility

When people used to complain to the Buddha that they were upset, telling him, Our children upset us; our partner agitates us, his simple reply would be, You are not upset because of your children or your partner; you are upset because you are upsettable.

The law of karma says that no matter what context I find myself in, it is neither my parents, nor my science teacher, nor the mailman, but I alone who have brought myself into this state because of my past actions. Instead of trapping me in a fatalistic snare, this gives me freedom. Because I alone have brought myself into my present condition, I myself, by working hard and striving earnestly, can reach the supreme state which is nirvana.

Make good boundaries your goal. They are your right, your responsibility, your greatest source of dignity.

You were born to be among the advisors and thinkers, the spiritual and moral leaders for your society. There is every reason for pride.

Father says that I'm one little instrument in the great Orchestra of Life, and that I must see to it that I'm always in tune, and don't drag or hit false notes

Cuando pensaba en el porvenir, una avalancha de días, apretujados los unos contra los otros, se le venía encima y se venía encima de su casa y de sus hijos. Para él, los días no contaban de la misma manera que contaban para los demás.

Los asesinos no volverán a entrar aquí mientras no laven sus crímenes.

Neglect is when a parent does not feed a child or provide the basic necessities such as clothing or shelter, or medical attention if needed. Leaving a child alone when the child is not yet ready to care for him/herself is neglectful since it leaves a child in a potentially dangerous situation.

As you begin to accept that you were not responsible for the abuse, and that your parents had a problem many people have, you may feel less embarrassed.

Every command leaves behind a painful sting in the person who is forced to carry it out.

Há muitos anos que me ocupo dessa tradução: a esfera privada na qual, todavia, ainda não me instalei confortavelmente, e onde tudo deve caminhar com conscienciosidade e responsabilidade, é a língua alemã.

No child, not even the most ordinary, forgets or forgives a single one of the commands inflicted on it.

If there is a problem somewhere... this is what happens. Three people will try to do something concrete to settle the issue. Ten people will give a lecture analyzing what the three are doing. One hundred people will commend or condemn the ten for their lecture. One thousand people will argue about the problem. And one person -- only one -- will involve himself so deeply in the true solution that he is too busy to listen to any of it... [W]hich person are you? -Fr. Longère

A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent.

I told him that I did not believe that they could burn people in our age, that humanity would never tolerate it…

I don't want my past to become anyone else's future.

But because of his telling, many who did not believe have come to believe, and some who did not care have come to care. He tells the story, out of infinite pain, partly to honor the dead, but also to warn the living - to warn the living that it could happen again and that it must never happen again. Better than one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, he has decided, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all. (vi)

We cannot indefinitely avoid depressing subject matter, particularly it it is true, and in the subsequent quarter century the world has had to hear a story it would have preferred not to hear - the story of how a cultured people turned to genocide, and how the rest of the world, also composed of cultured people, remained silent in the face of genocide. (v)

Indifference to me, is the epitome of all evil.

Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

And action is the only remedy to indifference, the most insidious danger of all.

To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.

Not all games are innocent. Some come dangerously close to cruelty.

I have tried to keep memory alive... I have tried to fight those who would forget. Because if we forget, we are guilty, we are accomplices.