Bottom line is, even if you see 'em coming, you're not ready for the big moments. No one asks for their life to change, not really. But it does. So what are we, helpless? Puppets? No. The big moments are gonna come. You can't help that. It's what you do afterwards that counts. That's when you find out who you are.
Joss WhedonTag: life inspirational strength self-discovery self-determination buffy-the-vampire-slayer changes whistler
It's not what happens to us that molds us. It's what we do with what happens to us.
Anita StansfieldTag: inspirational self-determination
True joy comes from operating with Inner-directedness and recognizing who you are.
Sanaya RomanTag: inspirational self-determination self-awareness
I felt the taste of mortality in my mouth, and at that moment I understood that I was not going to live forever. It takes a long time to learn that, but when you finally do, everything changes inside you, you can never be the same again. I was seventeen years old, and all of a sudden, without the slightest flicker of a doubt, I understood that my life was my own, that it belonged to me and no one else.
I’m talking about freedom, Fogg. A sense of despair that becomes so great, so crushing, so catastrophic, that you have no choice but to be liberated by it. That’s the only choice, or else you crawl into a corner and die.
Tag: life freedom philosophy self-determination adulthood
So often times it happens that we live our lives in chains, and we never even know we have the key."
(Already Gone)
Tag: life self-determination
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]
Tag: self-determination
One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility
Eleanor RooseveltTag: be-yourself self-determination deeds
Why should I care what other people think of me? I am who I am. And who I wanna be.
Avril LavigneTag: self-determination self-confidence rock punk cool avril
Now look at me! Take a good look! I was born and I knew I was alive and I knew what I wanted. What do you think is alive in me? Why do you think I'm alive? Because I have a stomach and eat and digest the food? Because I breathe and work and produce more food to digest? Or because I know what I want, and that something which knows how to want—isn't that life itself? And who—in this damned universe—who can tell me why I should live for anything but for that which I want?
Ayn RandTag: self-determination self-awareness
You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
Maya AngelouTag: be-yourself self-determination
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