RESPONSIBILITY

"The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs." --Joan Didion

"Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." --Erica Jong

 "When you blame others, you give up your power to change." --Author Unknown

"Up to a point a man's life is shaped by environment, heredity, and movements and changes in the world about him.  Then there comes a time when it lies within his grasp to shape the clay of his life into the sort of thing he wishes to be.  Only the weak blame parents, their race, their times, lack of good fortune, or the quirks of fate.  Everyone has it within his power to say, "This I am today; that I will be tomorrow."  --Louis L'Amour

At the end of the day, it's still MY responsibility to pick myself up, dust myself off, and DO