You are strong enough to overcome the situation!

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

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

Privacyâ€™ 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‡

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

Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Avril Lavigne

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

Johnnie Dent Jr.

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

Lailah Gifty Akita

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 dreaming big. You have a great glorious future.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Craig D. Lounsbrough

Do not allow the opinions of others to oppress you.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Lisa Cypers Kamen

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

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

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

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

You don’t have to compete with any one. Seek to outdo your own performance. You will always be happy.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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

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

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

You can do extraordinary deeds.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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

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

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

Lailah Gifty Akita

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

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

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

All roads taken lead us only to ourselves.

Kilroy J. Oldster

The mysteries of life include the external and the internal conundrums that each person encounters in a world composed of competing ideologies and agents of change. Conflicting ideas include political, social, legal, and ethical concepts. Agents of change include environmental factors, social pressure to conform, aging, and the forces inside us that made us into whom we are as well as the forces compelling us to be a different type of person.

Kilroy J. Oldster

We cannot replicate other people’s lives. We must each institute and broker a personalized meaning to our exclusive existence. We must each serve as our own Zen master, awaken to our inviolate personal truth, and strive to fulfill our sui generis (unique) nature.

Kilroy J. Oldster

All of us share conscious recognition of our individual self. Each of us is more than a product of our conscious thoughts. The dictation of our unconscious mind also affects our behavior. The unconsciousness cogitates upon problems that are too harsh to submit to conscious resolution. The unconscious mind frequently directs us to take action that a rational, conscious mind would eschew. Resembling a two-sided coin, both our conscious and unconscious minds contribute to our thought processes. Collaborative thoughts lead to action, and repeated actions result in the development of behavior patterns, and ingrained behavior patterns lead to a sense of identity.

Kilroy J. Oldster

Character modification requires active participation in challenging new experiences, but without reflection upon our encounters in life and the purposeful alteration in our base philosophy new experiences alone will not result in core personality changes. Our thoughts become our habits, and our habits reveal our character. Only by thinking and acting differently will a person attain the quality of character that they seek.

Kilroy J. Oldster

True joy comes from operating with Inner-directedness and recognizing who you are.

Sanaya Roman

Now look at me! Take a good look! I was born and I knew I was alive and I knew what I wanted. What do you think is alive in me? Why do you think I'm alive? Because I have a stomach and eat and digest the food? Because I breathe and work and produce more food to digest? Or because I know what I want, and that something which knows how to want—isn't that life itself? And who—in this damned universe—who can tell me why I should live for anything but for that which I want?

Ayn Rand

Necessary features of the human mind impose structure upon our experiences. Language acts as a gatekeeper for the mind. We learn and embark on personal transformation by formulating, revising, and refining our conception of the world each time that we encounter new facts, experiences, ideas, and viewpoints. To understand the world a person must employ reason and organize their episodic personal experiences into a system of narrative thought. The language that we employ to internalize our personal experiences constructs our mental system, and our mental thoughts in turn regulate us. We become of a personification of our language, as expressed in narrative stories of the self.

Kilroy J. Oldster

Human beings possess the gift of personal freedom and liberty of the mind. We each possess the sovereignty over the body and mind to define ourselves and embrace the values that we wish to exemplify. Personal autonomy enables humans to take independent action and use reason to establish moral values. We are part of nature. Consciousness, human cognition, and awareness of our own mortality allow us to script an independent survival reality and not merely react to environmental forces.

Kilroy J. Oldster

The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.

Ayn Ranc

This is what evil does; it makes choices for others in the name of religion, in the name of government, in the name of community, in the name of personal gain, that these individuals are best able to make for themselves.

John Kramer

If you fail, never give up. Keep trying, you will succeed.

Lailah Gifty Akita

When the heart accepts death first, words you can trust are feelings you can take.

Auliq-Ice

You have 100% control over yourself, and your life. It is up to you to stop giving your power away, and to decide what you want to be, do, or have...and go after it.

B. Dave Walters

If you believe in your abilities, it will amaze you what you can accomplish.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Walk, act and speak in confident.

Lailah Gifty Akita

It's a tiring game resenting the scars and the fearful memories.

Efrat Cybulkiewicz

In yourself right now is all the place you've got.

Flannery O'Connor

I don't entirely approve of some of the things I have done, or am, or have been. But I'm me. God knows, I'm me.

Elizabeth Taylor

Read good books to improve yourself.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Never give up on yourself.

Lailah Gifty Akita

For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.

Marcus Aurelius

The world of possibilities surround you, if thy will look.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Positive words are well spring of hope and healing.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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