one has personal will

Regardless of the staggering dimensions of the world about us, the density of our ignorance, the risks of catastrophes to come, and our individual weakness within the immense collectivity, the fact remains that we are absolutely free today if we choose to will our existence in its finiteness, a finiteness which is open to the infinite. And in fact, any man who has known real loves, real revolts, read desires, and real will knows quite well that he has no need of any outside guarantee to be sure of his goals; their certitude comes from his own drive.

- Simone de Beauvoir, French existentialist philosopher, writer, social theorist, and feminist activist, from her "Ethics of Ambiguity"