Self Determination Quotes

So often times it happens that we live our lives in chains, and we never even know we have the

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 harmonious life.” [In an interview conducted by Bram Stoker]

I judge the world by my own lightsand I come by my own hand.

This is the twenty-first century - you have to know what you want, then set upon it with everything you've got.

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.

You made tools of us. Have you never considered: the thing of a tool is that anyone may use it.

I am the master of my fate:I am the captain of my soul.

Person-centred counselling may be thought of as 'not enough'. In my experience it is. It allows for self-determination through an acknowledgement of a person's human rights.

The day you ever have that much control over my behavior, it will be because somebody's asking you, should she get the pine box or a plain white shroud?

In fact, there is nothing so easily remade as our definitions of ourselves.