Maggie Stiefvater Quotes

Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.

A true man does what he will, not what he must.

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.

I don't feel like my life happens to me. I feel like I happen to my life. I feel that I'm in the driver's seat.

I think I'm in control of what I do and what I've done. I think that's the ultimate feminine power. Do as you want.

Everything is something you decide to do, and there is nothing you have to do.

I think it is important to remind people of the extent of our free will.

I definitely do things on my terms, it may not seem that way but I actually do.

You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself.

We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves.

I'm not in charge of my life.

The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.

I feel you're in charge of your own situation.

I can control my destiny; I control my life.

But my whole career, I have done things my way and the way that I wanted.

You don't ever have to feel pushed into anything.

In life our first job is this, to divide and distinguish things into two categories: externals I cannot control, but the choices I make with regard to them I do control. Where will I find good and bad? In me, in my choices.

Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens to the which our wills are gardeners.

Your most important asset is the conscious control of your own life.

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

I wish my life and decisions to depend upon myself, not on external forces of whatever kind. I wish to be the instrument of my own, not other men's, acts of will. I wish to be the subject, not an object...I wish to be somebody, not nobody; a doer - deciding, not being decided for, slef-directed and not acted upon by external nature or by other men as if I were a thing, or an animal, or a slave incapable of playing a human role, that is, of conceiving goals and policies of my own and realizing them.

Man is the maker of his own destiny, and I therefore ask you to become makers of your own destiny.

I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul

Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice and the exercise of choice a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing.

True freedom is understanding that we have a choice in who and what we allow to have power over us.