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

Violations of good taste, manners, morals, illegalities, wrongs, crimes—they are all fundamentally the same thing, the insistence on one's own will in defiance of society as a whole.

From Tutt and Mr. Tutt by Train, Arthur Cheney

Subjection to a law not springing from one's own will implies interest or constraint, and constitutes a certain necessity of action, but never makes Duty.

From Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics by Bain, Alexander

Herein is the discipline of sacrifice complete by the using of one's own will to surrender it absolutely to the will of another.

From The Discipline of War Nine Addresses on the Lessons of the War in Connection with Lent by Potter, John Hasloch