“I can accept no responsibility for any changes in your existence, miraculous or otherwise. You must take responsibility for your own life. You must have your own life because if you haven’t had at least that, what have you had?”

Meaning

This reads as a firm refusal to rescue someone from the consequences of their own choices. It can be taken to mean that identity has to be built, not borrowed, and that a life without personal ownership is a thin one. It lands when a person is tempted to wait for permission, rescue, or transformation from outside instead of taking charge of their own direction.

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Original Language & Translation

Originally said in English.

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