"If all responsibility is imposed on you,..." - Quote by Franz Kafka
If all responsibility is imposed on you, then you may want to exploit the moment and want to be overwhelmed by the responsibility;yet if you try, you will notice that nothing was imposed on you, but that you are yourself this responsibility.
More by Franz Kafka
“I am away from home and must always write home, even if any home of mine has long since floated away into eternity.”
“If you find someone who makes you smile, who checks up on you often to see if you're okay. Who watches out or you and wants the best for you. Who loves and respects you. Don't let them go. People like that are hard to find.”
“There is a down-and-outness under true knowledge and a childlike happy arising from it.”
More on Responsibility
“To some generations much is given. Of other generations, much is expected.”
“Think about it: What the busybodies are saying is that third parties like themselves -- who are paying nothing to anybody -- should be determining how much somebody else should be paying those who work for them.”
“Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”
More on Self
“Conscious attention is a designed function of the brainwhich scans the environment for any trouble making changes.If you identify yourself with your trouble shooter, then naturally you define yourself as being in a perpetual state of anxiety.”
“Be as thou wast wont to be.See as thou wast wont to see.”
“Motion is always a relative thing. I move in relation to something else. Any particle in this universe can change in relation to any other particle; but take the whole universe as one, and in relation to what can it move? There is nothing besides it. So this infinite Unit is unchangeable, immovable, absolute, and this is the Real Man.”