you are responsible for you own happiness

Your patriotism is not measured by what your country can do for you. It's all about what you can do for your country for your own benefit and for the benefit of unborn generations!

Pastor, Face Your Business. When people say this, they mean that I must just stay behind the pulpit and preach.

Being a hero, the man had observed, is largely a matter of knowing one's cues.

When there is no owner, there will be an abuser.

My job is to scream cockle - doodle - doo. Don't blame me if the sun doesn't rise.

God will create the best opportunity for you. To find those opportunities is your responsibility.

When liberators hide their liberty tools, injustice prevails. True leaders intervene by dealing with injustice before it passes puberty.

Once you are in power, never forget those who put you there. Deal with those who think they can do better than you and those who think you are god's representative on earth. Deal with each other...

We ourselves are the authors of almost all our woes and griefs, of which we so unreasonably complain.

Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.

Hands can cook, hands can create, hands can kill. There is no better tool than our hands.

Faith, in its most correct form, never removes responsibility; it removes fear of responsibility. The results are complete opposites with the greater saying, 'God's will is my delight.'

Even today, after so many years, I cannot determine where my pure negligence ended, and where my culpability began. Perhaps I will never know.

See, my special gift is that I'm a mediator. I help guide the tortured souls of the newly dead to their afterlife destinations - wherever that happens to be - generally by cleaning up whatever messes...

It is impossible to erase my choices.

I felt like a fool. A rotten sitter. Kristy the Careless. Everyone in town was going to see Jackie with his cane. Of course they would ask what happened and they'd find out the truth. He'd been left...

When a strong woman recklessly throws away her strength she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.

"Surely you can entrust your task to your friends." "No," said Taran, after a long pause, "I have taken it on myself through my own choice." "If that is so," answered Medwyn, "then you can give it up...

So a voice in the mountain is enough to let loose an avalanche. A word too much may be followed by a caving in. If the word had not been spoken, it would not have happened.

I was scared. Do you know what it's like to hold someone else's life in your hands? It's like playing God. Can you think of anything scarier than that?

So, then. You want a story and I will tell you one. But just the one. Don't either of you ask me for more. It's late, and we have a long day of travel ahead of us, Pari, you and I. You will need your...

It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who...

responsibility-"response-ability"-the ability to choose your response.

Our parts now -- which perforce we must play -- are not father and daughter, but one old Abhorsen, making way for the new. But behind this, there is always my love.

If your faith is genuine, then you meet your responsibilities, fulfill your obligations, and wait until you are found. It will come. If not to you, then to your children, and if not to them, then to...

It's hard enough for a person to keep their own socks pulled up, let alone someone else's.

He believed that rank without power was a sham.

You are responsible for your own life and what happens in it, so are the other people.

Why, oh why must one grow up, why must one inherit this heavy, numbing responsibility of living an undiscovered life? Out of the nothingness and the undifferentiated mass, to make something of...