“All pain in life comes from wishing things were different than they are. Conversely, peace and happiness must come from accepting life as it is and breaking through the barriers of illusion to do so... All things that we label good or bad often hold in them surprises if we stay open. Each of us has choice in how we interpret life's events and in this way we are each responsible for our own reality.” IfsWayDifferentRealityPainChoicesWishAcceptingEventsIllusionAll ThingsResponsibleSurpriseLabelsBarriersPeace And HappinessAccepting LifePain In Life Author:Kristine Carlson
“As social secretary, I was responsible for putting together all the events that the President and the First Lady host.” FirstsTogetherSocialPresidentEventsResponsibleHostSecretaryFirst Lady Author:Desiree Rogers
“We must act now and wake up to our moral obligations. The poor and vulnerable are members of God's family and are the most severely affected by droughts, high temperatures, the flooding of coastal cities, and more severe and unpredictable weather events resulting from climate change. We, who should have been responsible stewards preserving our vulnerable, fragile planet home, have been wantonly wasteful through our reckless consumerism, devouring irreplaceable natural resources.” ShouldHas BeensHomeNaturalPoorCitiesMoralEventsPlanetsMembersResourcesShould HaveWake UpResponsibleClimateEnvironmentalClimate ChangeObligationWeatherVulnerableAffectedFragileSustainabilityConsumerismSevereUnpredictableTemperatureRecklessShould Have BeenNatural ResourcesDroughtStewardsIrreplaceableFloodingMoral ObligationDevouringCoastalPoor And Vulnerable Author:Desmond Tutu
“Every press secretary faces an enormous amount of information. Events move really fast. You're responsible for a tremendous amount of information, and again, a tremendous amount on competing agendas. Not everybody grease in the White House.” FacesMovingHouseWhiteEventsInformationAmountResponsiblePressesEnormousAgendasWhite HouseSecretaryCompetingGrease Author:Dee Dee Myers
“To believe that your husband, wife, parents, kids, boss, job, bank account, or body is even partly responsible for your emotions, to think that there are bullets 'out there' that you have to contend with, that there are stressful life events to overcome, is to miss something vital.” ThinkingBelieveBodyKidsJobsParentEmotionWifeMissingEventsHusbandOvercomingAccountsResponsibleBossBulletsStressfulYour HusbandBank AccountsHusband WifeStressful Life Author:Andrew Bernstein
“To be responsible is to be the uncontested author of an event or thing.” EventsResponsibleBeing Responsible Author:Jean-Paul Sartre
“Profound sadness is always the result of an unhealthy condition of the body. ... We [should] say, 'I am sad; everything looks black to me; but external events are in no way responsible. It's my body that insists on reasoning. These are the opinions of my stomach.'” WayShouldLooksBodyBlackResultsOpinionSadnessConditionsEventsResponsibleProfoundReasoningStomachUnhealthyProfound Sadness Author:Emile Chartier