Self Determination Quotes

There is no pre-mapped intellectual topology path leading to truth. Truth is a process of conducting a searching investigatory dialogue with oneself in an attempt to examine and discern the contents of a person’s own mind. Every person must ask himself or herself what is essential in life.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Life has a tendency to provide a person with what they need in order to grow. Our beliefs, what we value in life, provide the roadmap for the type of life that we experience. A period of personal unhappiness reveals that our values are misplaced and we are on the wrong path. Unless a person changes their values and ideas, they will continue to experience discontentment.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Self-mastery involves a studious account of all aspects of human life and developing a comprehensive philosophy for living without fear or anxiety throughout the remaining years of a person’s life. A person must live within the limits of the human condition, which does not justify giving into all of our destructive impulses or living a pleasurable and guiltless life. Self-mastery does not require a person to live a life without passion; rather, it entails channeling vibrant personal passions into living in a virtuous manner of created beings.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Understanding of oneself is the first act in establishing a transformative philosophy for living a vivid and a reflective existence. Knowing thy self is essential to designing and instigating a meaningful life that is self-directed instead of exclusively controlled by innate traits and external determinates.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Self-development requires direct action. Knowledge must precede action. The self’s relation to the world must be grounded in reality through ideas and thoughts. Self-reflection and introspection expands our appreciation of life.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

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

~ Zeena Schreck

It takes self-discipline and persistence action to achieve the goal.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Every person interprets the silence that surrounds him or her. The eternal silence of the universe that we exist in is terrifying because it forces each of to ask what our purpose is, why are we here, and what should I do?

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

In the learning process, a learner does encounter some difficulty. But with diligent, you will master the act.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You can do extraordinary deeds.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Every person is the master of his or her own destiny. What we think about alters our character. Our character organizes our personality, and our personality scripts how successfully we interact with other people and respond to a changing environment.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

There is no sin unless through a man's own will, and hence the reward when we do right things also of our own

~ Augustine Of Hippo

It is important to measure ourselves at least once in life, undertake a personal odyssey that constructs a clarifying prism of our being.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Through our work and play, each of us eventually becomes a personification of what we cherish in life.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

A noble journey through the travails of time calls for a person to disregard conventional social, cultural, and moral contexts and strive to cleave a personal meaning that guides their existence.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Despite the personalization of life’s events, all people largely experience the same general transformative stages of life and eventually we all encounter a row of similar tragedies. We do not experience identical lives or exemplify replicable personalities. Every person is a receptacle whom is capable of experiencing the full gamut of the entire human condition. Our lives act as a period of apprenticeship, which we devote laboring to discover the truths that we can live by.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

No person can claim to be anything more or anything less than his or her individual assimilation of a lifelong symposium of inimitable physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual occurrences. Simply put, we each place our own individualized stamp upon the meaning of life. How we live, how we struggle, and how we die reflects what life means to each of us. We are all students of life, we are a product of what we pay attention to, what we observe, and experience, and what subjects arrest our minds.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Choice is the keynote of self-determinism. To determine anything, you must have the choice to determine. Choice to determine means that you must have the power of decision. Decision and time have a lot in common. When we have clean, clear decision, we have clean, clear time. And when we have indecision, there is an unclarity about time.

~ L. Ron Hubbard

How are you going to choose to show up for life today?

~ Lisa Cypers Kamen

Do not allow the opinions of others to oppress you.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Arrogance is a map of a road that leads to bridges that are out.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Sorrow and strife comes to all persons. Mature people expect hardships and setbacks and patiently and determinedly work to accomplish their goals. Immature people lash out in anger and frustration when circumstances conspire to blunt their short-term objectives.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Keep the goal in mind and push onward to accomplish it.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The most difficult adversary I have ever faced happens to look just like me.

~ Johnnie Dent Jr.

Why should I care what other people think of me? I am who I am. And who I wanna be.

~ Avril Lavigne

If you can believe in yourself, you can soar with great wings far beyond the sky.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Privacy’ is an unusable term. We should instead talk about freedom, autonomy and self-determination of the individual. Being allowed to be yourself, to think whatever you want and to act within the law with no hindrance. That resonates with everyone.

~ Danny Mekiä‡

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.

~ Matthew Woodring Stover

In the end there is nothing to be done but to state clearly what has been done, without shame or regret, and say: Here I am, and this is what I am. Now deal with me as you see fit. That is your right. Mine is to stand by the act, and pay the price.You do what you must do, and pay for it. So in the end all things are simple.

~ Ellis Peters

She who follows another’s course, finds a sure path to her own remorse.

~ John Kramer

You ought to learn as best as you can.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I am not surprised by any situation.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Explore the infinite possibilities in existence.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Let every man be master of his time.

~ William Shakespeare

In liminal space, one meets the unknown, the marginalized, the synchronistic, the other, the unconscious edge of one's former narratives. At this point, the possibility to try out new narratives, to reframe one's story, becomes critical. Through narratives of participation the center of gravity shifts from fear and defensiveness to curiosity, creativity, and celebration. One begins to take a stand to validate one own's affects and doubts while at the same time interrogating them. The effect of such a shift is that the area of questioning about the self, the world, and the use of narrative language begins to widen noticeably. We can no longer assume there will be an outcome of homogeneous accounts through dialogue. The frames of narratives of participation anticipate heterogeneity rather than accord.

~ Helene Shulman

I need not present my actions, my words, myself for somebody else's approval. And basing my decisions on somebody else's approval or making my own approval contingent on somebody else's only postpones what I really want.

~ Jan Denise

No one decides where I go, least of all myself, though each step is where it must be.

~ Tomas Tranströmer

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?

~ Patricia V. Davis

Don't you ever let a soul in the world tell you that you can't be exactly who you are.

~ Lady Gaga

There's a rebel lying deep in my soul. Anytime anybody tells me the trend is such and such, I go the opposite direction. I hate the idea of trends. I hate imitation; I have a reverence for individuality.

~ Clint Eastwood