Questioned By Life

It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us.  We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life — daily and hourly.  Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct.  Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual.
―    Viktor E. Frankl
From his book:  “Man’s Search for Meaning“
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The Imposition Of Position

Rank does not confer privilege or give power.  It imposes responsibility.
—    Peter Drucker
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Wear A Damn Mask!

Freedom is not the right to do whatever we want;
It is the privilege of doing what we ought;
It is not private license;
it is public responsibility;
It is not freeing ourselves;
it is binding ourselves for the good of all.
—    Bishop Robert Brown
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#CryBabyDonald Is Too Human

To err is human;  to blame it on the other guy is even more human.
—    Bob Goddard
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To Meet And Fulfill

The job of priests with respect to the lay people is not to make them the longa manus of the clergy, telling them what they’ve got to do;  but to make them believing men and women, adult Christians, leaving them to meet and fulfill the concrete demands of their Christianity on their own responsibility and in accordance with their own consciences.
—   Yves Congar
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Choice

“Are you a socialist?” Ted Turner asked Carl Sagan.  “I’m not sure what a socialist is,” Sagan replied.
But I believe the government has a responsibility to care for the people,” Sagan said.
“I’m talking about making people self-reliant, people able to take care of themselves,” he continued.  “There are countries which are perfectly able to do that.  The United States is an extremely rich country, it’s perfectly able to do that.  It chooses not to.  It chooses to have homeless people.”
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#45: White House Turnover

I never blame myself when I’m not hitting.  I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats.  After all, if I know it isn’t my fault that I’m not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?
—    Yogi Berra
[Come 3 November, WE’LL get the chance to change bats.    —    KMAB]
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One Of Your Responsibilities

Life will bring you pain all by itself.  Your responsibility is to create joy.
—    Milton Erickson, M.D.
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The Responsibility Side Is On The Right

Yes, in this country we have freedom, we have rights, but our rights end when they infringe on the health and safety of others.
We have rights, but we also have responsibilities.  When did we forget the responsibility side of the equation?
Our love of freedom causes us to make wise choices to keep each other safe.
Our freedom engenders concern and compassion.  Our freedom gives us strength, not weakness.  Our freedom makes us bold.  Our freedom gives us dignity.  Our freedom causes us to protect the most vulnerable among us.  Our freedom generates in us the desire to do the right thing.
Our freedom prompts us to wear a mask.
From the site:   Meditations in Motion
Located at:  https://meditationsinmotion.wordpress.com/
The specific post is at:  https://meditationsinmotion.wordpress.com/2020/08/16/wearing-the-masks-of-freedom-and-love/
[Please visit the original site if you have a spare moment.   —   KMAB]
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Too Frightening For Too Many

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being.  With freedom comes responsibility.  For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.
—    Eleanor Roosevelt
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To Our #IdiotInChief: Wear A Mask!

Liberty means responsibility.   That is why most men dread it.
―    George Bernard Shaw
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Let’s Make It So

Unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so.
—    Noam Chomsky
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Sea Worthy

Amid questions, here’s what we’re sure of in the USS Fitzgerald collision…
“On the sea there is a tradition older even than the traditions of the country itself and wiser in its age than this new custom.  It is the tradition that with responsibility goes authority and with them both goes accountability.”
It continues:  “It is cruel, this accountability of good and well-intentioned men.  But the choice is that or an end of responsibility and finally as the cruel scene has taught, an end to the confidence and trust in the men who lead, for men will not long trust leaders who feel themselves beyond accountability for what they do.”
“And when men lose confidence and trust in those who lead, order disintegrates into chaos and purposeful ships into uncontrollable derelicts.”
—     By John Kirby
From the article:  “Accountability, Navy Style”  Thursday, 31 July 2008
Found at:   http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/17/opinions/uss-fitzgerald-this-much-we-know-kirby/index.html
Originally from:   http://conservativewahoo.blogspot.com/2008/07/accountability-navy-style.html
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Be Responsible

Without responsibility to something outside of himself, man is not able to be free.  Responsibility is the criterion of freedom.
—     Viktor E. Frankl
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