self-determination

self-determination

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.
You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. Letter to My Daughter
Let him who would move the world first move himself.
You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.
It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.
If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.
You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices. The Fault in Our Stars
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
A girl should be two things: who and what she wants. The Gospel According to Coco Chanel: Life Lessons from the World's Most Elegant Woman
Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.
You cannot change what you are, only what you do. The Golden Compass
The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are. Blindness
Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others.
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door
A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most.
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves. Julius Caesar