Francine Pascal Quotes

And yet it disturbs me to learn I have hurt someone unintentionally. I want all my hurts to be intentional.

It makes sense that no one else can cause you pain. That's your job.

Just think: you cannot find a single misery for which you are not responsible. It may be jealousy, it may be anger, it may be greed - but something in you must be the reason that is creating the misery.

There are some things we should feel guilty about, but the guilt feelings should attach to the deed, not to the doer.

We are more pained when one of our friends is guilty of something shameful than when we do it ourselves.

Just because one of Arlene's husbands was a murderer is no reason for me to be ugly

To take responsibility for one's own actions, good and bad, is something else.

You will look in vain to see Donald Trump ever taking responsibility for anybody and apologize.

You cannot hurt me. Only I can do that.

Guilt starts as a feeling of failure.

How boring these emotions are that we're caught in and can't get free of, no matter how much we want to.

Instead of always asking yourself why so-and-so acts this or that way, learn to ask: "What's inside of me that wants to hurt itself over how anyone else acts?"

What we suffer, what we endure, what we muff, what we kill, what we miss, what we are guilty of, is done by us, as individuals, in private.

I’ve blamed her for all of this, for leaving, for ruining me. And maybe that was the seed of it, but from that one little seed grew this tumor of a flowering plant. And I’m the one who nurtures it. I water it. I care for it.I nibble from its poison berries. I let it wrap around my neck, choking the air right out of me. I’ve done that. All by myself. All to myself.

I was depressed. I was just depressed. I did not want to be a Pittsburgh Steeler because I knew of the record.

People of poor character tend to blame their choices on circumstances. Ethical people make good choices regardless of circumstances. If they make enough good choices, they begin to create better conditions for themselves.

I must be without remorse or regrets as I am without excuse; for from the instant of my upsurge into being, I carry the weight of the world by myself alone without help, engaged in a world for which I bear the whole responsibility without being able, whatever I do, to tear myself away from this responsibility for an instant.

Thou shalt be both the plaintiff and the judge of thine own cause.

We forget our faults easily when they are known to ourselves alone.

Only those sadnesses are dangerous and bad which one carries about among people in order to drown them out.

Victimization status is the modern promised land of absolution from personal responsibility.

I cannot shift the blame for Chechnya, for the sorrow of numerous mothers and fathers. I made the decision, therefore I am responsible.

The truly just is he who feels half guilty of your misdeeds.

Discouragement tricks you into mentally or emotionally dwelling in the very place you want to leave.

Sin and shame ever go together; he that would be freed from the last must be sure to shun the company of the first.