self-determination

We become what we want to be by consistently being what we want to become each day.

Your craft is comprehensive if it represents you.

Instead of killing and dying in order to produce the being that we are not, we have to live and let live in order to create what we are.

Live life daringly.

We all have vices, visible and invisible. Some we deliberately keep secret. Others we don__ even realize or we refuse to admit we have_Vices 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__ creation, and you can enjoy them__f you choose__ithout being broken by them.- Zeena Schreck for VICE Magazine

Every new day brings new strength, new dreams and new opportunities.

When you overcome the difficulties of life, you develop an inner strength

You can get through the storm with your hope in Jesus.

He who knows his strength has overcome many difficulties.

Freedom is free will.

You will find the limit of strength with every new situation.

What! Would I be turned back from doing a thing that I had determined to do, and that I knew to be right, by the airs and interference of such a person, or any person I may say? No, I have no idea of being so easily persuaded. When I have made up my mind, I have made it.

Woe betide him, and her too, when it comes to things of consequence, when they are placed in circumstances requiring fortitude and strength of mind, if she have not resolution enough to resist idle interference ... It is the worst evil of too yielding and indecisive a character, that no influence over it can be depended on. You are never sure of a good impression being durable; everybody may sway it. Let those who would be happy be firm.

May you find grace to endure every circumstance.

Human history is the ancient story of the umbilical conflict between a lone individual versus a cabalistic society. A love-hate relationship defines our personal history with society, where the suppression of individuality for the sake of the collective good battles the notion that the purpose of society is to enable each person to flourish. A conspicuous feature of cultural development involves societies teaching children the sublimation of unacceptable impulses or idealizations, consciously to transform their inappropriate instinctual impulses into socially acceptable actions or behavior. The paradox rest in the concept that in order for any person to flourish they must preserve the spiritual texture of themselves, a process that requires the individual to resist societal restraint, push off against the community, and reject the walls of traditionalism that seek to pen us in. The climatic defining event in a person__ life represents the liberation of the self from crippling conformism, staunchly rebuffing capitulating to the whimsy of the super ego of society.

I can weave threads of myself into a tapestry already designed by others.

I__ not going to be like my mother. You__e maniacs. You__e mad.__es,_ said Kate. __ know it. And so you won__ be. The best of luck to you. And what are you going to be instead?

I__ not going to be like my mother. You__e maniacs. You__e mad."__es,_ said Kate. __ know it. And so you won__ be. The best of luck to you. And what are you going to be instead?