Quotes about Self determination

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The only life worth living is the one we take responsibility for choosing. — Alexandra Stoddard, Time Alive: Celebrate Your Life Every Day
It's not what happens to us that molds us. It's what we do with what happens to us. — Anita Stansfield, Where the Heart Leads
So often times it happens that we live our lives in chains, and we never even know we have the — Eagles, The Very Best of the Eagles
A man must choose his own way of life, and…it is only by following out one’s own bent that there can be the really harmo — Winston S. Churchill
I judge the world by my own lightsand I come by my own hand. — Catherine Madsen
This is the twenty-first century - you have to know what you want, then set upon it with everything you've got. — Manil Suri, The City of Devi
If your weakness is love then you are extremely strong. — Efrat Cybulkiewicz
He loved me and didn't want me hurt. What was worse, he didn't even understand that I had the right to be hurt. — Rosemary Sutcliff, Blue Remembered Hills: A Recollection
You made tools of us. Have you never considered: the thing of a tool is that anyone may use it. — Erin Bow, The Scorpion Rules
This should be one of the basic attitudes—not to think about what the other is doing. That is his life. If he decides to — Osho, Tao: The Pathless Path
I am the master of my fate:I am the captain of my soul. — William Ernest Henley
Person-centred counselling may be thought of as 'not enough'. In my experience it is. It allows for self-determination t — Suzanne Keys, Person-Centred Practice: The BAPCA Reader
Where tradition tells us that people are best kept under control and denied freedom of expression and action, humanistic — Keith Tudor, Dictionary of Person Centred-Psychology
Man is not only that which he conceives himself to be, but that which he wills himself to be... — Jean-Paul Sartre
Self-preservation and determination meant she could get away with anything. As her law-abiding, conventionally minded da — Mary Allsebrook
The day you ever have that much control over my behavior, it will be because somebody's asking you, should she get the p — Michael Chabon, The Yiddish Policemen's Union
We are only here for a little while, and our bodies belong to ourselves and no one else. — Penn Jillette, God, No! Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales
In fact, there is nothing so easily remade as our definitions of ourselves. — Dinaw Mengestu, How to Read the Air
Self-determination could mean independence, confederacy, federal and autonomy. — Jalal Talabani