Self Determination Quotes
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“We all have vices, visible and invisible. Some we deliberately keep secret. Others we don鈥檛 even realize or we refuse to admit we have鈥ices can be lots of fun, or they can turn your life into a living hell. Accept them for what they are, just another aspect of the mind鈥檚 creation, and you can enjoy them鈥攊f you choose鈥攚ithout being broken by them.
- Zeena Schreck for VICE Magazine”
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- Zeena Schreck for VICE Magazine”
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“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.鈥
--Zeena Schreck Interview for KJTV-1990”
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--Zeena Schreck Interview for KJTV-1990”
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“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?”
― The Yiddish Policemen's Union
― The Yiddish Policemen's Union
“Some say that to believe in destiny is to dismiss the role of free will. That self-determination cannot prevail in the presence of fate. When the truth is, the only part of destiny we can control is the fate we choose for another.”
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“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.”
― My Several Worlds
― My Several Worlds

“We are only here for a little while, and our bodies belong to ourselves and no one else.”
― God, No! Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales
― God, No! Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales

“[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.”
― The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers 1899-1936: The Making of a Detective Novelist
― The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers 1899-1936: The Making of a Detective Novelist

“The capacity for personal freedom is a rare talent. Talent exists to be used. We do not ask sheep to be wolves; we, the wolves, do not ask ourselves to be sheep. Sheep can make such rules as happen to suit them--but it's foolishly naive to expect wolves to obey.”
― Blade of Tyshalle
― Blade of Tyshalle

“I am not your king, impudent larva? Who then has created you?
Orestes: You. But you should not have created me free.”
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Orestes: You. But you should not have created me free.”
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“It's only young people who make giant, life-altering decisions based on what other people might think, and it's because they don't see their own death looming. Their fear is, "Will my family, friends and lovers admire me?" whereas an older person's fear is that vision of themselves lying in a hospital bed, a breathing tube up their nose and the thought running through their heads, "Why didn't I at least try to do what I wanted to do, while I had the chance?”
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“A man don't always have to eat what he's standing life. If he wants, a man can fix a meal of his own choosing.”
― Them
― Them

“A dream conceived from the inside-out eventually becomes reality. But a dream desired from the outside-in is subject to spoil and tragedy.”
― From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence
― From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence
“You have 100% control over yourself, and your life. It is up to you to stop giving your power away, and to decide what you want to be, do, or have...and go after it.”
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“When you increase in learning and education, you increase your ability to act, and you have a chance to improve your circumstances.”
― Becoming Your Best: The 12 Principles of Highly Successful Leaders
― Becoming Your Best: The 12 Principles of Highly Successful Leaders
“What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.”
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“In fact, there is nothing so easily remade as our definitions of ourselves.”
― How to Read the Air
― How to Read the Air
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