Self Determination Quote Quotes

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“Time provides all of us with the opportunity to change, alter our belief system, and create new perspectives that challenge a person’s character and teach him or her how to become a happier and wiser person.”
Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“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.”
Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

Michael R. French
“Rationality and calm self-determination were one of the great illusions of the universe... in the end, we were all ruled by our passions.”
Michael R French, Once Upon a Lie

“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, Dead Toad Scrolls

“None of us can discover personal bliss by blindly following the footsteps of other people. We must dare to be originals for we have only one life to live. Living a life that placates other people is fool’s gold.”
Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“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, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Failure generates its own majesty. Defeat becomes a panoptic stain on the soul; it creates its own all-embracing pathos. Reverses engulf us in fleshy feelings of self-pity, sorrow, and apathy. Resounding setbacks might even be subtlety attractive because it means we can give up trying. It is tempting to accept defeat, surrender to our insecurities, and admit that because of failing to accomplish one particular goal that the best part of our life was wasted. Cynically writing ourselves off as a failure, we are free to capitulate to the emptiness of our lives.”
Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“A restless human heart always seeks to increase personal understanding and works to attain excellence.”
Kilroy J. Oldster

“A person whom seeks self-improvement must design specific tasks that instigate learning.”
Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“The soul evolves as a person addresses the chaos, vagaries, and perplexities of enduring an earthly life. We each ultimately become our own version of an ideal self by stage-managing who we become.”
Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“We employ education and the convictions gained through the intermeshing of personal experiences and fresh ideas to establish the configuration of our being that in actuality was our mysterious potentiality from the very inception of our birth.”
Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“The action generated the possibility of a future different from the past. Bitter division was healed by way of bold, confident leadership.”
Rom Watangu

“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.”
Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Every person intuitively seeks personal independence, the ability to exercise autonomy over the course that his or her life takes.”
Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

Germany Kent
“Being competitive in the marketplace will require you to be innovative, creative, and hard-working, but nothing can prepare you if you're not up for the challenge. ”
Germany Kent