Elie Wiesel Quotes

At which point should we let go and do what we want to do, and when should we submit to rules? Coming to terms with our true natures and who we really are has always been a fascination to humans. I know it fascinates me.

True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion.

Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

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

Nobody can tell you what to do. No matter what they pay you. No matter what obligations you feel you owe them. Every second defines you. Be who you are, not who anyone else is, or who anyone else wants you to be.

Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control. Stop aspiring to be anyone other than your own best self: for that does fall within your control.

No man is free who is not master of himself... Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose?

Don't let other people decide who you are.

Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it's time you took the pen from his hand and started writing it yourself.

From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines. Going where I list, my own master, total and absolute. Listening to others, and considering well what they say. Pausing, searching, receiving, contemplating. Gently but with undeniable will, divesting myself of the holds that would hold me.

Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.

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

In a very slow way, I found my path. Even now, I think, 'If I can't do it my way, I'd rather not do it.'

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

I want to be defined by my own essence.

I think people should be able to do what they want to do.

I have my life, my world. I do what I want, without annoying anyone.

But egoism is more than this. It is the realization by the individual that he is above all institutions and all formulas; that they exist only so far as he chooses to make them his own by accepting them.

I always had that yearning, that hunger, to one day be independent and be my own person and build my own world. The most fulfilling thing is to live a life where you have freedom.

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

For why should my freedom be judged by another’s conscience?

Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free.

Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is of right, absolute.

My freedom is more important than your good idea.

The essence of freedom is that each of us shares in the shaping of his own destiny.