Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself.

A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.

Render yourself free to choose, to be, to live, to see.

You're not a product of your nature. That is your genetic makeup or your nurture, the things that have happened to you. Of course those things affect you powerfully, but they do not determine you.

And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.

You are free to choose what you want to make of your life. It's called free agency or free will, and it's your birthright.

There's a flipside to this; if you as an individual have the right to live on your own terms, you must have the right to both succeed and fail on them.

Your one certainty in life, your power as a human being, is that you have a choice in every situation about what you do next and about how you take what has happened to you.

Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

The word 'fate' doesn't really mean much to me in some ways. I think we make our own.

If I had to sum it up, the goal of Scientology is giving the person back to themselves. Like, your own power of choice.

The thing that has never changed is I do what I want to do. If I can't do what I want to do, I don't want to do it.

In a larger sense, we all write our own destiny.

Freedom to me can be so many things; freedom to be myself, to express myself and do the things I want to do, freedom to go in any direction I want to go in order to accomplish my goals.

What I try to pass on in my work for everyone is that we can be who we want.

People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived.' They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates, and society.

Whoever wants to be free, therefore, let him not want or avoid anything that is up to others. Otherwise he will necessarily be a slave.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

In one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism.

Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.

The biggest privilege I've had in my life is being able to make a choice. If you make a choice, it can't be a wrong choice because it seemed like a good idea at the time.

Everybody eventually discovers that they are an individual with the power to affect their own lives and make it better or not.

I wanted to use my possibility to be an individual, and I suppose I have, no?

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.