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    Sylvia Plath
    “Why can’t I try on different lives, like dresses, to see which fits best and is more becoming?”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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    Robert T. Kiyosaki
    “It's not what you say out of your mouth that determines your life, it's what you whisper to yourself that has the most power!”
    ― Robert T. Kiyosaki
    tags: inspiration, life, self-determination, self-image, wisdom
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  • #3
    Jane Austen
    “There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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    Nora Ephron
    “Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”
    ― Nora Ephron
    tags: courage, empowerment, self-determination, women
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  • #5
    Charlotte Brontë
    “I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: ataraxy, defiance, empowerment, independence, individuality, self-assurance, self-awareness, self-containment, self-determination, self-esteem, self-reliance, self-respect, self-sufficiency, self-trust, solitude
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  • #6
    Frank Zappa
    “If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: be-yourself, life, self-determination
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  • #7
    Lauren Oliver
    “I'd rather die my way than live yours.”
    ― Lauren Oliver, Delirium
    tags: independence, lena-holoway, self-determination, self-reliance
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    Harvey Fierstein
    “Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself.”
    ― Harvey Fierstein
    tags: be-yourself, identity, individuality, inspirational, life, self-determination, self-esteem, self-expression
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: age, empowerment, equality, experience, freedom, gender, independence, men, reason, self-determination, submission, superiority, women, women-s-rights
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  • #10
    Anne Frank
    “Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.”
    ― Anne Frank
    tags: growing-up, innocence, inspirational, parenting, personal-responsibility, right-of-passage, self-determination, self-responsibility
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  • #11
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: destiny, self-determination
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    Maya Angelou
    “Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: change, inspirational, self-determination
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, ideal-woman, identity, image, independence, integrity, love, men, realism, romance, self-awareness, self-determination, women
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    Virginia Woolf
    “As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, Orlando
    tags: clichés, dignity, double-standards, empowerment, feminism, gender, hypocrisy, intelligence, men, misogyny, self-determination, social-norms, stereotypes, thought, women
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  • #15
    José Saramago
    “Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.”
    ― José Saramago, Blindness
    tags: self-determination, soul
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
    tags: ataraxy, independence, individuality, inspirational, self-assurance, self-awareness, self-containment, self-determination, self-esteem, self-reliance, self-respect, self-sufficiency, self-trust, solitude
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    Richard Dawkins
    “There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point… The truly adult view, by contrast, is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it.”
    ― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
    tags: atheism, existentialism, follow-your-bliss, self-actualization, self-determination
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    Groucho Marx
    “I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.”
    ― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
    tags: carpe-diem, happiness, live-in-the-moment, self-determination
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, ideal-woman, identity, image, independence, integrity, realism, self-awareness, self-determination, women
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: integrity, self-actualization, self-determination
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    Howard Zinn
    “I'm worried that students will take their obedient place in society and look to become successful cogs in the wheel - let the wheel spin them around as it wants without taking a look at what they're doing. I'm concerned that students not become passive acceptors of the official doctrine that's handed down to them from the White House, the media, textbooks, teachers and preachers.”
    ― Howard Zinn
    tags: autonomy, complacency, ethics, independence, politics, proactivity, self-determination, society
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    Carlos Castaneda
    “The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.”
    ― Carlos Castaneda
    tags: happiness, self-determination, self-reliance
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  • #24
    Mary Wollstonecraft
    “[I]f we revert to history, we shall find that the women who have distinguished themselves have neither been the most beautiful nor the most gentle of their sex.”
    ― Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
    tags: achievement, beauty, clichés, distinction, empowerment, gender, gentleness, greatness, history, intelligence, self-determination, stereotypes, women
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  • #25
    Wayne W. Dyer
    “You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.”
    ― Wayne W. Dyer
    tags: be-yourself, self-determination
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  • #26
    “The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours - it is an amazing journey - and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins.”
    ― Bob Moawad
    tags: self-determination, self-discovery
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    Hugo Hamilton
    “Maybe your country is only a place you make up in your own mind. Something you dream about and sing about. Maybe it's not a place on the map at all, but just a story full of people you meet and places you visit, full of books and films you've been to. I'm not afraid of being homesick and having no language to live in. I don't have to be like anyone else. I'm walking on the wall and nobody can stop me.”
    ― Hugo Hamilton, The Speckled People: A Memoir of a Half-Irish Childhood
    tags: anchoring, attachment, belonging, country, empowerment, home, homelessness, independence, individuality, inspirational, nationality, roots, self-assurance, self-awareness, self-containment, self-determination, self-esteem, self-reliance, self-respect, self-sufficiency, self-trust
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    Cormac McCarthy
    “The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down. The rain will erode the deeds of his life. But that man who sets himself the task of singling out the thread of order from the tapestry will by the decision alone have taken charge of the world and it is only by such taking charge that he will effect a way to dictate the terms of his own fate.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
    tags: empowerment, fate, fear, ignorance, life, order, secrets, self-determination, superstition
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  • #29
    Theodore Roosevelt
    “The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: life, self-actualization, self-determination, self-fulfillment
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  • #30
    Roy T. Bennett
    “When you do the right thing, you get the feeling of peace and serenity associated with it. Do it again and again.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett
    tags: action, do-the-right-thing, doing, inner-peace, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, life, life-quotes, living, optimism, optimistic, peace, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking, serenity
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  • #31
    G.K. Chesterton
    “There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: happiness, satisfaction, serenity
    1606 likes



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