Quotes About Responsibility

The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not." -Cutting for Stone

The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don't. If you keep saying your slippers aren't yours, then you'll die searching, you'll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more. Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.

I'm so sorry,' Stone said. I don't know whether he was speaking to me, or Ghosh, or the universe. It wasn't enough, but it was about time.

Being the first born gives you great patience.

Most of us can't go back and make restitution. We can't do a thing about our should haves and our could haves. But a few lucky men like Ghosh never have such worries; there was no restitution he needed to make, no moment he failed to seize.

What a bad idea it had been to give the Bible to anyone but priests, Ghosh thought. It made a preacher out of everybody.

promised more. Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.

This is the covenant of water: that they're all linked inescapably by their acts of commission and omission, and no one stands alone. She stays there listening to the burbling mantra, the chant that never ceases, repeating its message that all is one. What she thought was her life is all maya, all

A rich man's faults are covered with money, but a surgeon's faults are covered with earth.

is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don't. If you keep saying your slippers aren't yours, then you'll die searching, you'll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more. Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.

This is the covenant of water: that they're all linked inescapably by their acts of commission and omission, and no one stands alone. She

This is the covenant of water: that they're all linked inescapably by their acts of commission and omission, and no one stands alone.

Some part of him must know this is unreasonable even as he thinks it. But his mind can't accept the alternative. If it's all his fault, what earthly excuse does he have be still breathing?

Please understand. This happened before her birth. She was born this way. Nothing you or anyone else did caused it. Understand? This isn't your fault. In Jeremiah, doesn't God say, 'Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee'?" "He does!" she says, shocked to hear a Bible verse from this worldly man.

This is the covenant of water: that they're all linked inescapably by their acts of commission and omission, and no one stands alone. She stays

It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.

I don't see this planet being... they're talking about how they're turning around the environmental problems here, but I think it's already too late.

Offspring were a joy or a shame, but still the crown of their elders, nature's unpredictable creatures.

Will you tell us the stories that make us uncomfortable, but not complicit?

But what I forgot was that it was our plan, not hers, not the one doing the dying, this was a plan for those who still had a next. See, our job was simple: keep on living. Her job was harder, the hardest.

It is what we do in order to care for things, make them ourselves, our elders, our beloveds, our unborn. But perhaps that is a lazy kind of love. Why can't I just love the flowers for being a flower? How many flowers have I yanked to puppet as if it was easy for the world to make flowers?

Denn was auch immer auf Erden besteht, besteht durch Ehre und Treue. Wer heute die alte Pflicht verrät, verrät auch morgen die neue.

Your spirituality can also help you let go of control. You may finally come to the realization that you cannot take responsibility for everything. Feeling that you are part of something greater can help you let go of intrusive thoughts, fears, doubts, and guilt.

When you have kids, you instantly feel that you do not want to do them wrong. Those dads that go off to Florida and start a new life, I couldn't imagine that: seeing my kid once every Christmas, every three years. If I'm gone for six days it feels like too much.