Quotes About Agency

Neither can we deny that free will (the power of free choice) is a good thing.

You decide your own level of involvement.

These are Tyler's words coming out of my mouth. I am Tyler's mouth. I am Tyler's hands.

The same way a compact disk isn't responsible for what's recorded on it, that's how we are. You're about as free to act as a programmed computer. You're about as one-of-a-kind as a dollar bill

Humiliation is humiliation only when you choose to suffer.

I said it before-the only one who can decide is the person herself. I did all I could. From here on out, it's up to her.

Now he worked on a new theory: There was no higher system guiding Nickel's brutality, merely an indiscriminate spite, one that had nothing to do with people. A figment from tenth-grade science struck him: a Perpetual Misery Machine, one that operated by itself without human agency. Also, Archimedes, one of his first encyclopedia finds. Violence is the only lever big enough to move the world.

A figment from tenth-grade science struck him: a Perpetual Misery Machine, one that operated by itself without human agency. Also, Archimedes, one of his first encyclopedia finds. Violence is the only lever big enough to move the world.

Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation. You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you can always control what you will feel and do about what happens to you.

Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them.

Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them. In other words, man is ultimately self-determining. Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become in the next moment.

For in every case man retains the freedom and the possibility of deciding for or against the influence of his surroundings.

Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation. You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you can always control what you will

Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation. You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you can always control what you will feel and do about what happens to you. There is a scene in Arthur Miller's

Finally, Frankl's most enduring insight, one that I have called on often in my own life and in countless counseling situations: Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.

Freedom is but the negative aspect of the whole phenomenon whose positive aspect is responsibleness. In fact, freedom is in danger of degenerating into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of responsibleness.

Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation. You cannot control

A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining.

Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them. In other words, man is ultimately self-determining. Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become in the next moment. By the same token, every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.

Frank! would have argued that we are never left with nothing as long as we retain the freedom to choose how we will respond.

Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them. In other words, man is ultimately self-determining.

A human being is not one thing among others - Things determine each other, but Man is ultimately self-determining. What he becomes, within the limits of endowment and environment, he has made out of himself.

Ultimately, man is not subject to the conditions that confront him; rather, these conditions are subject to his decision.

M]an is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he succumbs to conditions or defies them. In other words, man is ultimately self determining. Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become in the next moment.