Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

Our only responsibility is to live our own life and take care of our own children.

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.

When you make bad decisions bad things happen. And it was so simple. You know, the decisions you make are going to become the life that you live!

You always have a choice. It's just that some people make the wrong one.

The choice you make, makes you.

Nothing is inevitable in life. People make choices, and those choices have results, and we all live with the results.

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

Barring extreme physical and mental disabilities, each and every one of us is where we are today -- be it poor or wealthy, happy or sad, on the streets or in a condo, in a Mercedes or a rusted-out Pinto -- because of the choices we have made during our lives. It's the choices we have made that put us where we are, not the choices others have made for us.

We may find it convenient to live with the illusion that circumstances or other people are responsible for the quality of our lives, but the reality is that we are responsible-response-able-for our choices.

The mistakes you make now count. Not for everything, and not forever. But they do matter, and they shape you.If you take nothing else from what I've been through, at least remember this: make your choices well. Because you'll always be accountable for them. That's what being an adult is all about.

As individuals, we have to act independently of the politics at hand. I don't feel an added responsibility to do anything more beyond being who I've always been and acting decently. I've always felt people are looking down on us and expecting us to fail. That's enough of a burden, and we automatically try to act with dignity.

Dont blame me, I was given this world, I didn't make it.

The Establishment likes people who take no responsibility and cannot respect themselves.

Each of us has the right and the responsibility to assess the roads which lie ahead, and those over which we have traveled, and if the future road looms ominous or unpromising, and the roads back uninviting, then we need to gather our resolve and, carrying only the necessary baggage, step off that road into another direction. If the new choice is also unpalatable, without embarrassment, we must be ready to change that as well.

People look around you, the signs are everywhere. You've left it for somebody other than you to be the one who to care.

You always have to take responsibility for the choices you made. Once you can come to that truth, it's a very satisfying and relieving feeling. You don't have to fight anymore, you just get to do.

Everybody's got the potential for great good and great wrong in them, but it's the choices we make that define who we really are.

Your choices make you whoever you turn out to be.

People have choices in this life. They should exercise them responsibly.

We have a gift of life. What we do with that gift is dependent on the choices we make. The people who we spend time with. The things that we go out to do every day.

I don't want people to love me. It makes for obligations.

When we fail to set boundaries and hold people accountable, we feel used and mistreated. This is why we sometimes attack who they are, which is far more hurtful than addressing a behavior or a choice.

Since you are the one who has to live with your choices, be sure they are your own.

A truly moral nation enacts policies that encourage personal responsibility and discourage self-destructive behavior by not subsidizing people who live irresponsibly and make poor choices.

You have a choice in life very often whether you do good or you feel good.