"Everything you have, whether it's money or stuff, is an obligation. It is as much your duty to care for and nurture any object you own as it would be if that object were your child. All possessions come with responsibilities. More possessions equals greater responsibility."

-- Brad Warner

#Money Quotes #Children Quotes #Responsibility Quotes

“"Openness" [story] ultimately asks this same question - can a relationship survive complete honesty? As a romantic, I want to say "Yes, of course!" But, over time, I've come to agree with Dan Savage.”
“I still look good. I'm trippin', but people tell me that all the time. So check it out, I'm 63, and still kicking. I've been putting records out every year.”
“We all want a world without war, without conflict, without human suffering.”

Source : "On September 21, call a global truce" by Jeremy Gilley, www.cnn.com. January 15, 2012.
“Taking the things people do wrong seriously is part of taking them seriously. Itâ€™s part of letting their actions have weight. Itâ€™s part of letting their actions be actions rather than just indifferent shopping choices; of letting their lives tell a life-story, with consequences, and losses, and gains, rather than just be a flurry of events. Itâ€™s part of letting them be real enough to be worth loving, rather than just attractive or glamorous or pretty or charismatic or cool.”

Source : Francis Spufford (2012). “Unapologetic: Why, despite everything, Christianity can still make surprising emotional sense”, p.34, Faber & Faber
“I feel like I have to top myself every film I do, and it gets hard.”
“When you hand good people possibility, they do great things.”
“My father used to think the word 'legend' was tossed around far too often. I want to say today that in the opinion of his family, my father was a legend.”
“Older boys often asked me to teach them â€œsome bad words in your languageâ€. At first I politely refused. My refusal merely increased their determination, so I solved the problem by teaching them phrases like 'man kharam' which means â€œI'm an idiotâ€. I told them that what I was teaching them was so nasty that they would have to promise never to repeat it to anyone. They would then spend all of recess running around yelling â€œI'm an idiot! I'm an idiot!â€. I never told them the truth. I figured someday, somebody would”

Source : Firoozeh Dumas (2007). “Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America”, p.34, Random House

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