What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul. Jewish Proverb
Category Archives: RESPONSIBILITY
Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present. Jean de la Bruyere
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“My will shall shape my future. Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man’s doing but my own. I am the force; I can clear any obstacle before me or I can be lost in the maze. My choice; my responsibility; win or lose, only I hold the key to my destiny.”
– Elaine Maxwell
And those who ride on the Border side, Albeit they like him not, They know his mettle has oft been tried Where blows were thick and hot.
The Feud: A Border Ballad
by Adam Lindsay Gordon (1833 – 1870)
Australian writer
http://alldownunder.com/australian-authors/adam-lindsay-gordon/feud-a-border-ballad.htm
foto at the nsw queensland border in coolangatta/tweed heads australia
Let us all understand that death is not an eraser. It does not remove the deeds or the meanings that existed in anyone’s life. It does not make poor men rich or great men fallible. And when death comes, let us not romanticize its presence nor the person it takes from us. Let us see death for what it really is: a border that we all must cross; a border that, more than any other, defines the lives we are able to lead. Do not mourn for those who cross over. Rather, reflect on the definition they’ve left behind. It is the only truth we are able to know here on earth. When the definition is great, then celebrate it. When it is lacking, then learn from it and improve on it. And use it to make your own definition more truthful and loving and miraculous.
~Russell Andrews
Read more: http://www.gadel.info/2011/07/loss-of-loved-one-quotes-sayings.html#ixzz2mTi1iac2
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Abraham Lincoln
“How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it a leg.”
― Abraham Lincoln
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
Erica Jong
“Life can be very terrible,” he said. “One needs much courage.”
“To kill oneself? yes, I suppose one does.”
“Also to live,” said Poirot, “one needs courage.”
― Agatha Christie, Death in the Clouds
Israfel has long been a house of cards, and he has been disturbed. He can feel his supports collapsing, day by day.
― Louise Blaydon, The Time of the Singing
“How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in life, when one finds darkness not only in one’s culture but within oneself? If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox. One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse. There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.”
― Barry Lopez
It doesn’t matter what people call you unless they call you pigeon pie and eat you up.
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited
“We have an obligation to one another, responsibilities and trusts. That does not mean we must be pigeons, that we must be exploited. But it does mean that we should look out for one another when and as much as we can; and that we have a personal responsibility for our behaviour; and that our behaviour has consequences of a very real and profound nature. We are not powerless. We have tremendous potential for good or ill. How we choose to use that power is up to us; but first we must choose to use it. We’re told every day, “You can’t change the world.” But the world is changing every day. Only question is…who’s doing it? You or somebody else?”
― J. Michael Straczynski
If we are not responsible for the thoughts that pass our doors, we are at least responsible for those we admit and entertain. Charles B. Newcomb.
“There’s a door."
"Where does it go?"
"It stays where it is, I think.”
― Terry Pratchett, Eric
Whoever undertakes a task cannot repudiate the responsibility. Chinese.
"Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages: Classified Subjectively and Arranged Alphabetically"
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
Voltaire
foto – ulladulla harbour 2010
He who is guilty is the one that has much to say. Ashanti .
If you could choose your parents,… we would rather have a mother who felt a sense of guilt—at any rate who felt responsible, and felt that if things went wrong it was probably her fault—we’d rather have that than a mother who immediately turned to an outside thing to explain everything, and said it was due to the thunderstorm last night or some quite outside phenomenon and didn’t take responsibility for anything.
(D.W. Winnicott (20th century), British child psychiatrist.
http://www.poemhunter.com/quotations/guilt/page-8/
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THE OLD PROVERBIAL RECOVERY 