587 Quotes About Self-determination

You ought to write down your goals. It serves as a guidepost and gives strength for purposeful action.

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?

Each of us is the enactor of our personal saga; we create the phantom of the self. We are the principal character in our personal story, as well as witnesses and reactors to the storylines of other persons whom we adore. We are each the composers of our evolving personal story; we are the protagonist of our personal life story.

I cannot take credit for the fact that I do not have the soul of a psychopath.

We write to give strength to our soul and to inspire spirit of other souls.

Finding the motivation to undertake your inner search needs Inspiration, vision and determination. To get there you have an obligation to be self-aware and you have a right to be grateful and compassionate with yourself and others. Don’t be afraid to ask your creator, and perhaps even those around you, for something you want, you just might get it. If you ask for something, ask for it with all your heart, because anything less is probably not worth having.

Our lives are cycles. We only break the cycle through changing our perspectives, or by meeting with death.

The road to self-improvement does not begin with the realization of other people’s scorn. Personal salvation commences with the determined excavation and displacement of a crusty layer of self-denial, which defense mechanism camouflaged my intensifying sense of self-repugnance for how I acted in this earthly life.

A person without a crystalline sense of self lives a mythless existence; they lack a definitive path to follow in life. Deprived of a solid sense of self, dispossessed of a connection to the past, destitute of a grounding sense in the present, a person leads a leaden and aimless existence.