Henri de Lubac Quotes

You hold the keys of change within you. You be the change you want to see.

When I talk about self-management, self-regulation, self-government, the word I emphasize is self, and my concern is with the reconstruction of the self. Marxists and even many, I think, overly enthusiastic anarchists have neglected that self.

They can fatten me up. They can give me a full body polish, dress me up, and make me beautiful again. They can design dream weapons that come to life in my hands, but they will never again brainwash me into the necessity of using them. I no longer feel allegiance to these monsters called human beings, despite being one myself.

It is by his freedom that a man knows himself, by his sovereignty over his own life that a man measures himself.

Bring the child to the consciousness of his own dignity, and he will be free. We see no limit to what should be offered to the child, for his will be an immense field of chosen activity.

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

From the moral as from the intellectual point of view, the child is born neither good nor bad but master of his destiny.

Actually being able to exercise your own choice can bring about greater opportunity.

I'm very interested in how we take ownership of our own stories and our own lives.

If we confound and break up the proposed unfolding the world impresses upon us, we can give ourselves the space to consider what we want to be as a species.

I'm honored to be a part of the #ShowEm campaign because it recognizes the importance of who we are at our core and what drives us to become who we want to be, no matter what obstacles we face. Jockey has given me a platform to show people that the impossible can be possible if you keep fighting and believing.

Humanist thinkers such as Rousseau convinced us that our own feelings and desires were the ultimate source of meaning and that our free will was, therefore, the highest authority of all.

When someone really, truly believes in themselves, magic happens.

I know what I'm capable of, and I try to go out and prove that.

We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.

I am the seed of the free, and I know it. I intend to bear great fruit.

A human being is like a television set with millions of channels.... We cannot let just one channel dominate us. We have the seed of everything in us, and we have to recover our own sovereignty.

A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all - that is myself.

Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one's self- sovereignty.

I am learning that if I just go on accepting the framework for life that others have given me, if I fail to make my own choices, the reason for my life will be missing. I will be unable to recognize that which I have the power to change.

Accept that you are where you are and what you are because of your own choices and decisions.

The best way forward is to give more people everywhere greater power to build their own destinies.

That’s what you taught me - we don’t have to accept destiny or Des Tiny. We can create our own future, all of us. We have the power to rule our lives - we just have to make the choice to use it.

The best you'll ever do is to understand yourself, know what it is that you want, and not let the cattle stand in your way.