I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade women to endeavor to acquire strength, both of mind and body, and to convince them that the soft phrases, susceptibility of heart, delicacy of sentiment, and refinement of taste, are almost synonymous with epithets of weakness, and that those beings are only the objects of pity, and that kind of love which has been termed its sister, will soon become objects of contempt.
Mary WollstonecraftStichwörter: strength happiness empowerment equality gender men women feminism weakness self-determination misogyny hypocrisy inequality independence stereotypes flattery double-standards clichés dignity inferiority social-norms women-s-rights contempt
If you knew your potential to feel good, you would ask no one to be different so that you can feel good. You would free yourself of all of that cumbersome impossibility of needing to control the world, or control your mate, or control your child. You are the only one who creates your reality. For no one else can think for you, no one else can do it. It is only you, every bit of it you.
Esther HicksStichwörter: reality self-determination peace-of-mind abraham law-of-attraction reality-check control-freaks allow abraham-hicks control-issues controlling esther-hicks
The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.
Ralph Waldo EmersonStichwörter: self-esteem confidence courage courage-to-be-oneself self-determination independent-thought pride lightning protection self-belief self-protection lightning-rod self-reliance-independence
You are not controlling the storm, and you are not lost in it. You are the storm.
Sam HarrisStichwörter: free-will freedom self-determination attitude
The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.
Ayn RancStichwörter: evil self-determination
[I]t's difficult to make people see that what you have been taught counts for nothing, and that the only things worth having are the things you find out for yourself. Also, that when so many brands of what Chesterton calls 'fancy souls' and theories of life are offered you, there is no sense in not looking pretty carefully to see what you are going in for. [...] It isn't a case of 'Here is the Christian religion, the one authoritative and respectable rule of life. Take it or leave it'. It's 'Here's a muddling kind of affair called Life, and here are nineteen or twenty different explanations of it, all supported by people whose opinions are not to be sneezed at. Among them is the Christian religion in which you happpen to have been brought up. Your friend so-and-so has been brought up in quite a different way of thinking; is a perfectly splendid person and thoroughly happy. What are you going to do about it?' -- I'm worrying it out quietly, and whatever I get hold of will be valuable, because I've got it for myself; but really, you know, the whole question is not as simple as it looks.
Dorothy L. SayersStichwörter: life meaning-of-life christianity self-determination spirituality values diversity guidance
Let every man be master of his time.
William ShakespeareStichwörter: life time self-determination control
We are against ignorance. We feel that you have to educate yourself, no matter what the situation is. People who refuse to educate themselves - people who refuse to find out what something is about, that they're frightened of - find comfort in being ignorant.”
--Zeena Schreck Interview for KJTV-1990
Stichwörter: fear individuality morality ignorance self-determination autonomy fear-of-unknown independent-thinking
Fate is unalterable only in the sense that given a cause, a certain result must follow, but no cause is inevitable in itself, and man can shape his world if he does not resign himself to ignorance.
Pearl S. BuckStichwörter: education choice fate ignorance understanding self-determination destiny
I am not your king, impudent larva? Who then has created you?
Orestes: You. But you should not have created me free.
Stichwörter: liberty freedom humanity mankind self-determination creation
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