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Rocks Into Roses: Life Lessons and Inspiration for Personal Growth

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“Not only is our humanity prone to self-sabotage, but it also exhibits a certain fickleness in our nature. This inconsistency is also to some extent responsible for our willingness to pass the buck. Furthermore, it often makes us appear unstable and insecure in our ways. We can be subject to mood swings, oscillating between humility and arrogance; peacefulness and violence; or between happiness and sadness. This irregularity displayed in our nature is responsible for why we vacillate between actions. It might be in our nature to be good and kind, but we lean towards cruelty and brutality.”

Taking Responsibility
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“The case I would like to make to my grandfather is that I'm no more to blame for any of this than I am for global warming, the pandemic, the war in Ukraine, the cesspool of social media or our politically polarized country. The problem is that while I may not be responsible for the growing divide between the world's haves and its have-nots, it's also true, or at least it feels true, that the world's disarray is worsening on my watch. What I'd like is to be let off the hook to be absolved of all wrongdoing, when in truth I feel both complicit and utterly helpless. Though I live in the present, I can't help feeling that I owe an apology to both the past and the future.”

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Book:Life and Art: Essays
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“No more should you fall for that prank that blaming others is the ideal thing to do. Though it might make you feel good to see others blamed instead of you, don’t fall for the illusion that if you accept the truth about yourself others will see through the façade and lower the premium, they put on you. No such thing should ever tempt you to pass blame on to another person again. If you are ever tempted to do that, look for what is gone amiss in your life so that you can put things right.”

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“You are not to blame for what that murderer has tried to do." She exhaled. "We each bear our own manner of responsibility." He opened his mouth to argue, but she forestalled him with a hand. "The point is, they are harming my people. I want it stopped, Jadon." "Yes, lady." "We will tend Shoshanah's wounds. Then we will put an end to this hunt. I am done being the prey to some invisible foe.”

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