Quotes About Self-assertion

Non preoccuparti delle barriere degli altri: è sufficiente che tu abbatta le tue.

Feeling pressured into doing something I didn't want to do for people I didn't want to please.

Leslie?" Irial whispered. "What are you doing?" "Choosing." Tears were soaking the blanket under Leslie's face. "I'm mine. Not anyone else's." "I'm still yours, though. That won't ever change, Shadow Girl." And then he was gone, and her emotions crashed over her.

All your life, other people will try to take your accomplishments away from you. Don't you take it away from yourself.

My feeling is that labels are for canned food... I am what I am - and I know what I am.

not standing there and taking it, being subservient to and trying to gain the acceptance of the bully. It means fighting back.

I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.

To love is to see myself in you and to wish to celebrate myself with you. What I love is the embodiment of my values in another person. Love is an act of self-assertion, self-expression and a celebration of being alive.

If someone talks trash, you can just trash them back. Clamming up in a corner makes the thing half your fault." "[...] There are people out there who get crushed by that logic.

I'm not a cat. And I'm not gonna turn into one even if you hug me . . . I was born like this.

Morality was viewed by the Egyptians not as the assertion of self against the world but rather as the individual search for harmony with the eternal order ... The Egyptian was free to seek out a place in a benevolent world order, but he was not to disrupt it by either nonconformity or self-abnegation.

En kötüsü, hay?r demeyi ö?renemedim. Yeme?e kal, dediler: kald?m. Oysa, kal?nmaz. Onlar biraz ?srar ederler; sen biraz nazlan?rs?n. Sonunda kalk?p gidilir. Her söylenileni ciddiye almak yok mu, ?u sözünün eri olmak yok mu; bitirdi, y?kt? beni.

No one can dub you with dignity. That's yours to claim.

Those who achieved power were satisfied so long as they could merely retain it, and advertise it uncritically in the conventionally self-assertive manners.

On the one hand, for each of us, sin is the claim to the right to myself, and so to my way of seeing things, which—far more than class, gender, race and generation—is the ultimate source of human relativity. On the other hand, sin is the deliberate repudiation of God and the truth of his way of seeing things. If my way of seeing things is decisive, anyone who differs from me is wrong by definition—including God. No

I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.

The people who hurt you don't get the last word. You get to tell the story of you, and your story has more power than you can imagine.

Mine, ... Mine is what she is.

I'd be damned if I was going to be the victim of a loser - or anyone else.

I won't be forced either. I've had enough. If that makes me a dog in the manger, so be it. But if I am yours, then you damned well are going to be mine.

The central virtue in a shame-based expression of recovery is obedience to a power greater than ourselves. Being asked by the third step to turn our will and lives over to a Higher Power continues the disempowering process that alienates us from our own resources and our own powers of self-assertion and determination.

The I is such that it can assert itself, absolve itself, undergo countless permutations.

I'm choosing my own story. Because if you can't do that, you might as well give up.

You be as angry as you need to be," she said. "Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Not your grandma, not your dad, no one. And if you need to break things, then by God, you break them good and hard.