587 Quotes About Self-determination

A person has numerous resources available for learning including observing nature and witnessing how other people behave. We can examine other people lives to find clues how to live, but ultimately we must develop a personal code of living a sterling existence.

A dialectical tension exists between people and nature through which each person determines his or her ultimate state.

The only thing that we will ever truly know is ourselves; our personal being is our finest creation.

In order to make a lasting contribution to humanity, we cannot allow other people’s expectancies to limit our development or restrict our dreams. We must live our own lives unaffected by other people’s expectations.

We are conscious beings always experimenting with the mystery of becoming our ultimate manifestation.

It is a worthy quest to not simply develop a sense of identity, but become the magnanimous version of the self.

Spiritual poverty, even more than material poverty, exposes weakness in a person’s character.

Every day we are creating a self that stands as a witness and a contributor to the history of our generation, which is a citizen of the world.

The essential humanness of people is that under the press of circumstances human beings tend to economize by developing what we must possess in order to survive.