Quotes About Responsibility

If our kids only expect blessings and exemptions, they will be terrible grown-ups. These are not the adults we want to launch, nor are they the Snowflakes we want our kids to marry. We cannot be the mothers-in-law for these people, oh my gosh. If grown-ups expect sandwich dolphins from their spouses, bosses, churches, friends, and children, this will all be a disaster.

I manage to feel guilty one way or another, no matter which purchasing priority wins the day. I've either spent too much, bought cheap processed junk, or I've subsidized the sweat shop industry. Even simplifying can be complicated. GAH!

A good parent prepares the child for the path, not the path for the child. We can still demonstrate gentle and attached parenting without raising children who melt on a warm day.

If people around me aren't moved by my Christ or my church, then I must be doing a miserable job of representing them

Owning a dog is slightly less expensive than being addicted to crack.

Fletch then kisses me on the forehead before opening the cabinet under the coffeemaker to grab placemats and napkins. Retrieving these items is his job because I kind of don't like to bend. I also refuse to carry anything heavier than my purse.

Over the summer we chatted one night while Angie stripped a bed, changed wet sheets, comforted and repajamaed a toddler, and chased down a car of speeding teenagers while shaking a brick at them, never once interrupting the conversation or setting down her margarita. The only reason this woman isn't president of General Motors is because she's chosen not to be.

Great leaders make decisions ...

We are so unbelievably blessed to have all the things we have, all the opportunities and ideas and people and tasks and interests and experiences and responsibilities - choosing to freak out about it all, rather than enjoying the living of our lives, is like throwing pearls before swine. Such a waste of such a glorious gift.

All this is to say that it's not your fault that you're fucked up. It's your fault if you stay fucked up, but the foundation of your fuckedupedness is something that's been passed down through generations of your family, like a coat of arms or a killer cornbread recipe, or in my case, equating confrontation with heart failure. When

Forgiveness is all about taking care of you, not the person you need to forgive. It's about putting your desire to feel good before your desire to be right. It's about taking responsibility for your own happiness instead of pretending it's in somebody else's hands. It's about owning your power by giving all your anger, resentment, and hurt the heave-ho.

You are a victim of the rules you live by.     ââ'¬â€Jenny Holzer;

The definition of screwing someone over is taking their money and doing a lousy job or destroying their water source or enslaving populations, things like that—your mother being disappointed or your father disapproving or your friends being outraged does not qualify as screwing someone over.

Where there's a will there's a way; we just prefer to pretend there isn't a way so we don't have to take responsibility and do the uncomfortable stuff required to grow.

We need people to feel happy and fulfilled and loved so they don't take their shit out on themselves and other people and the planet and our animal friends.

Watch your words. And everyone else's.

You can choose to be a victim to your circumstances or take responsibility for how you choose to perceive them.

Bei Vergebung geht es darum, sich um sich selbst zu kümmern – und nicht etwa um denjenigen, dem man vergeben muss. Es geht darum, das Bedürfnis nach Wohlbefinden vor den Wunsch, recht zu haben, zu stellen. Es geht darum, Verantwortung für das eigene Leben zu übernehmen, statt vorzugeben, es liege in der Hand anderer. Es geht darum, die eigene Macht zu nutzen, indem man Wut, Ablehnung und Schmerz den Laufpass gibt.

Ayn Rand: Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.

Know what's going on with their money

Kids get so wrapped up in the joy of drawing or pretending or discovering that they'd rarely eat or bathe or sleep if we didn't make them.

Success is not about your circumstances, it's about who you're being.

Geld zu haben ist, wie alles andere auch, ein Werkzeug. Sehen Sie es als solches. Und betrachten Sie dabei nicht nur sich selbst. Überlegen Sie vielmehr, wie Sie zum Teil jener Dynamik werden können, in der Geld in allen Bereichen einer Verbesserung dient. Dann ist es nicht nur ein Segen Geld zu haben, dann bringt es auch eine Verantwortung mit sich.

Sie sind verantwortlich für das, was Sie sagen und tun. Sie sind nicht dafür verantwortlich, ob sich die Leute darüber aufregen oder nicht.