one's own will

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Via Zoom, a minister prompted Mikayla to look in a mirror to reflect on self-empowerment and recite: “One’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone.”

From New York Times • Jun. 28, 2023

But because of the transforming nature of forgiveness, coupled with the experience that it involves more than one’s own will, we concluded that it has a spiritual dimension.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 13, 2015

Freedom to follow in all things one's own will or inclination, without any civil restraint, is license, not liberty.

From The American Republic : constitution, tendencies and destiny by Brownson, Orestes Augustus

The 'subjectivity' opposed to this, in Schopenhauer's phraseology, is preoccupation with the interests of one's own will.

From Schopenhauer by Whittaker, Thomas

Exercised according to one's own will or caprice, and therefore conveying a notion of a tendency to abuse the possession of power.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah