Responsibility.

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast.

Viktor E. Frankl, from Man's Search for Meaning

Greater.

Sir Roger on human duties ...

We have been taught that we must forgive and that and we have an obligation to forgive.  This doesn't come from any contract, it doesn't come from anything that we've undertaken.  It lies there in the nature of things and it's what is necessary, I think, if we are to live in the easygoing way that we hope for, but it does suggest that all human beings have a need for sacred things, a need for something which, as it were, cannot be spoiled, something which must be treasured and as which has an absolute authority and all our institutions in which our membership is a real value.  All these institutions in which membership is presupposed and rehearsed, are as a result of this endowed with a certain aura.  We are naturally beings that live in a sanctified or consecrated world.  We don't necessarily put it in that way, but we feel it whenever we encounter something which is calling upon us to be more than just the self-centered contract-making thing that we are in day-to-day life.  For instance all these things that are associated with your national membership, the flag, the oath, the parade, and so on, people, ordinary people, at least not obviously Princeton intellectuals, but ordinary people, when observing such a thing, their hair prickles and they stand to attention, maybe their eyes water, and so on.  This is a recognition that they're in the presence of something that cannot be spoiled, that is greater than them, and of which they are a part. I think this is something we feel also through our sense of beauty, which endows the whole world with an aura or can do. 

Responsibility.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

George Bernard Shaw

Restore.

We need to restore the full meaning of that old word, duty. It is the other side of rights. 

Pearl S. Buck

Customary.

Responsibility.  Noun.  A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one's neighbor. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star. 

Ambrose Bierce

Absolution.

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poorhouse. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the almshouse as brightly as from the rich man's abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring. I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace.

Henry David Thoreau, from Walden

If your everyday life seems poor, don’t blame it; blame yourself; admit to yourself that you are not enough of a poet to call forth its riches; because for the creator there is not poverty and no poor, indifferent place. And even if you found yourself in some prison, whose walls let in none of the world’s sounds – wouldn’t you still have your childhood, that jewel beyond all price, that treasure house of memories? Turn your attentions to it. Try to raise up the sunken feelings of this enormous past; your personality will grow stronger, your solitude will expand and become a place where you can live in the twilight, where the noise of other people passes by, far in the distance. 

Rainer Maria Rilke, from Letters to a Young Poet

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

Oscar Wilde, from The Picture of Dorian Gray