self-determination

To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.

You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.

Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.

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

It's not what happens to us that molds us. It's what we do with what happens to us.

I'll fight when needed, revel when there's an occasion, mourn when there is grief and die if my time comes...But I will not let anyone use me against my will.

Always listen to yourself... It is better to be wrong than simply to follow convention.

If your weakness is love then you are extremely strong.

It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.

The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.

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.

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

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

This should be one of the basic attitudes__ot to think about what the other is doing. That is his life. If he decides to live it that way, that is his business. Who are you even to have an opinion about it? Even to have an opinion means that you are ready to interfere, you have already interfered.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.

You've already decided what you're going to do, and all that's left is to set the wheels in motion. I mean, it's your life. Basically, you gotta go with what you think is right.

The little things, I can obey. The big things__ow we think, what we value__hose you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone__r any society__etermine those for you.