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• To mature means to take responsibility for your life, to be on your own. Psychoanalysis fosters the infantile state by considering that the past is responsible for the illness.

  Frederick Salomon Perls

  Mean, Responsibility, Past

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• No one can listen to your body for you... To grow and heal, you have to take responsibility for listening to it yourself.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Responsibility, Listening, Body

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2013). “Full Catastrophe Living (Revised Edition): Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness”, p.173, Bantam

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• Take stands, take risks, take responsibility.

  Muriel Siebert

  Responsibility, Risk, Initiative

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• Be compassionate, and take responsibility for each other. If we only learned those lessons, this world would be so much a better place.

  Morrie Schwartz

  Responsibility, Helping Others, Would Be

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• When someone tells you something big, it's like you're taking money from them, and there's no way it will ever go back to being the way it was. You have to take responsibility for listening.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Responsibility, Listening, Way

  Banana Yoshimoto (2011). “The Lake”, p.41, Melville House

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• I had to take responsibility, even if it meant saying no to an authority figure, because I was the authority on me.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Responsibility, Saying No, Authority

  Kelley Armstrong (2010). “The Reckoning: The Darkest Powers Trilogy”, p.108, Penguin Group

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• Sometimes everyone does the right thing and there's still a mess left to clean up. Someone has to take responsibility for it.

  Kami Garcia

  Responsibility, Doe, Sometimes

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• The ruling power is always faced with the question, ‘In such and such circumstances, what would you do?’, whereas the opposition is not obliged to take responsibility or make any real decisions.

  George Orwell

  Real, Responsibility, Decision

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.193, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You don't have to be 'adults'... but be someone who can take responsibility for their own words and actions. Believe it or not, that's actually harder.

  Natsuki Takaya

  Believe, Responsibility, Adults

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• All that children need is love, a grown-up to take responsibility for them, and a soft place to land.

  Deborah Harkness

  Children, Responsibility, Land

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• When you hold people up for ridicule, you have to take responsibility when other people act on it.

  Jay Asher

  Bullying, Responsibility, People

  Jay Asher (2011). “Thirteen Reasons Why”, p.53, Penguin

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• Optimism sprouts from the knowledge that you are in control of your own life, not your past and not those around you. Part of being in control is taking responsibility for how you feel. This means not just admitting to uncomfortable feelings but then examining your circumstances to see what can be done to change these feelings at the source.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Mean, Responsibility, Past

  Augusten Burroughs (2012). “This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.”, p.17, Macmillan

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• Choosing to take responsibility for ourselves and for the consequences our choices create looks like hard work, but it really sets us free.

  Melody Beattie

  Hard Work, Responsibility, Choices

  Melody Beattie (2009). “Choices: Taking Control of Your Life and Making It Matter”, p.15, Harper Collins

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• lf you’re going to deal with reality, you’re going to have to make one big discovery: Reality is something that belongs to you as an individual. If you wanna grow up, which most people don’t, the thing to do is take responsibility for your own reality and deal with it on your own terms. Don’t expect that because you pay some money to somebody else or take a pledge or join a club or run down the street or wear a special bunch of clothes or play a certain sport or even drink Perrier water, it’s going to take care of everything for you.

  Frank Zappa

  Sports, Running, Growing Up

  Interview with Dave Rothman in Oui magazine, April, 1979.

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• Another person's life is that person's life. You can't take responsibility.

  Haruki Murakami

  Responsibility, Life Is, Persons

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “South Of The Border, West Of The Sun”, p.71, Random House

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• Each one of us matters, has a role to play, and makes a difference. Each one of us must take responsibility for our own lives, and above all, show respect and love for living things around us, especially each other.

  Jane Goodall

  Responsibility, Play, Differences

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• Batterers aren't renowned for taking responsibility for their abusiveness, Sam. They tend to shed blame like a snake molts.

  Stephen White

  Responsibility, Snakes, Blame

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• Today I acknowledge that I am not in position to judge what mistakes anyone is making or what lessons anyone needs to learn. I don’t know how far someone has come or when that person will have a breakthrough, I simply don’t know what other people should be doing. But when I think I do know, I clearly am not doing what I should be doing, which is taking responsibility for my own life.

  Hugh Prather

  Mistake, Responsibility, Thinking

  Hugh Prather (2001). “Love and Courage”, p.11, Conari Press

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• Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Responsibility, Giving, Credit

  "Nineteen Stars: A Study in Military Character and Leadership". Book by Edgar F. Puryear Jr., p. 289, 1971.

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• Character in many ways is everything in leadership. It is made up of many things, but I would say character is really integrity. When you delegate something to a subordinate, for example, it is absolutely your responsibility, and he must understand this. You as a leader must take complete responsibility for what the subordinate does. I once said, as a sort of wisecrack, that leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Leadership, Integrity, Character

  "Nineteen Stars: A Study in Military Character and Leadership". Book by Edgar F. Puryear Jr., p. 289, 1971.

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• Realize that the reason most people fail isn't because of the competition but because of the limits they place upon themselves, allowing defeat to take over. Take responsibility for your destiny. You can come up with a performance, if you can reach down and dig deep enough into your competitive soul. You can overcome tremendous obstacles.

  Bruce Jenner

  Self Esteem, Responsibility, Destiny

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• Whenever a warrior decides to do something, he must go all the way, but he must take responsibility for what he does. No matter what he does, he must know first why he is doing it, and then he must proceed with his actions without having doubts or remorse about them.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Attitude, Knowledge, Responsibility

  Carlos Castaneda (2009). “The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

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• I try to live what I consider a "poetic existence." That means I take responsibility for the air I breathe and the space I take up. I try to be immediate, to be totally present for all my work.

  Maya Angelou

  Appreciation, Mean, Responsibility

  Maya Angelou, Jeffrey M. Elliot (1989). “Conversations with Maya Angelou”

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• People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know.

  Brooks Atkinson

  Fear, Believe, Responsibility

  Brooks Atkinson (1951). “Once Around the Sun”

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• When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves.

  George Pataki

  Responsibility, Acceptance, Government

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