Quotes about Self-determination

you are the single biggest influence in your life.

I want people to understand, that you are responsible for your life. Weather you are transexual, weather you are a divorcee, weather you are terminally ill, weather you are posessed by the devil or trying to get the devil out of you. You have control over your life, and it is only when you recognize that, and is willing to be responsible for your life that you can truely soar, and I believe that it's possible in our lifetime to fly if you want to.

Whether you flounder or flourish is always in your hands—you are the single biggest influence in your life.

I wear my hat as I please, indoors or out.

If someone is bent on hurting herself, she'll find a way to do it. She was a grown woman; sooner or later, she was responsible for herself.

You are not a prisoner of your past; you are the architect of your future.

Do I tell you how to braid your hair? Don't tell me how to plow a field.

Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live.

If you live your life by what others say, it stops being your life.

God has paid an awful price to arrange for human self-determination. He obviously places great value on it. It is, after all, the only way he can get the kind of personal beings he desires for his eternal purposes. And just as we are not to try to manipulate others with impressive language of any kind (Matt. 5:37), so we are not to harass them into rightness and goodness with our condemnings and our "pearls" or holy things.

Freedom comes with the decision: it does not wait for the act.

I was not designed to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.