“Never let me hear you say it s someone else s fault. It often is, but you must never shirk your own responsibility ... You can t change others, but you can do something about a fault in yourself.”
“You can either complain about how hard your life is, or you can realize that only you are responsible for it.”
“The irresponsible mother helped explain bella s maturity. She d had to grow up early, to become the caretaker. That s why she didn t like being cared for- she felt it was her job.”
“Because it s my fault, you see. I did it. And you must always clean up your own messes, even when your messes look just like you and curtsy very viciously when what they mean is, I am going to make trouble forever and ever.”
“ If a person is not willing to take responsibility for themselves, it does not excuse them from not taking responsibility when their bad choices affect others.”
“A father acts on behalf of his children by working, providing, intervening, struggling, and suffering for them. In so doing, he really stands in their place. He is not an isolated individual, but incorporates the selves of several people in his own self. Every attempt to live as if he were alone is a denial of the fact that he is actually responsible. He cannot escape the responsibility, which is his because he is a father. This reality refutes the fictitious notion that the isolated individual is the agent of all ethical behavior. It is not the isolated individual but the responsible person who is the proper agent to be considered in ethical reflection.”
“As believers, we all have the responsibility to leverage our wealth for kingdom purposes.”
“Financial crashes happen precisely because the people who remember the last one have either died or retired and thus are no longer around, with memories and character formed by that previous experience, to warn people not to be irresponsible.”
“Да имаш дете е като да си направиш татуировка на лицето. Наистина трябва да си сигурна, че точно това искаш, преди да му се посветиш.”
“Completing the circle is both philosophical and tactical - there is a growing sense of mastery that comes with practice, diligence, and experience.”
“Unsere Fähigkeit zur Verantwortung ist [...] nicht etwas, das durch Philosophen, Politiker oder Geistliche quasi von außen in unser Leben hineingebracht würde, sie gehört vielmehr zum Grundbestand des Humanum. Wir verlieren uns selbst, wenn wir diesem Prinzip nicht zu folgen vermögen.”
“Along with individual responsibility goes some societal responsibility to enable young people and their parents to do what they need to do. Otherwise, what is a society?”
“You literally don t have to take it as joy when someone else take-up your Responsibility, it makes you lose your Dignity.”
“Oh my God — Fern — please! Stop talking like that! I don’t want your heart! I don’t want to be responsible for anybody else’s heart. For anybody else’s anything! He looked confused: A peculiar idea. Once you’re alive in this world, you’re responsible.”
“Your responsibility is to repent.”
“The sacred responsibility is to repent.”
“Someday you’ll learn that it’s not much use running away from things, when you have to eventually come back and face them.”