Quotes About Autonomy

Just because all your friends are doing it, doesn't mean you have to follow suit. Don't be a blind follower, you don't know where you're going.

The best thing to learn from any government is that it does not get affacted by what other people talk or think about it.

Nobody can treat you like a liability without your approval

Appreciate the things and people in your life while remaining independent of them. Give thanks for them, but realize that they do not complete you. Only you can complete you.

Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame. —Erica Jong

Step on my toe. Must I curse? I may. Must I forgive you? I may. Must I yell? I may. Must I smile? I may. What I do will reflect my character, but it is "I" who will act and not just react like a bell ringing when a button is pushed.

To them, joining a group and putting themselves at the mercy of someone else's collectivist judgment makes about as much sense as

Freedom is being able to live with the consequences of your decisions.

I've had to be a man since I was 12 or 13. I had a job. And I was playing the piano for people twice my age. Handling responsibility is what makes a man a man.

Physics is all about order and design. About laws that govern the forces making up our universe. We didn't create them. We just discovered them and learned how to use them. It is now my humble opinion that when you have laws, you have a lawgiver. When you have overwhelming evidence of intelligent design, you have an intelligent designer. Unless such a conclusion gets in the way of your personal autonomy and career.

Our own way is what our heart wants, and do not let others influence us.

Maybe it's because he never had any control over what was happening to him as a boy. Being late was somehow a way of taking charge.

cats." "A fellow named Robert Heinlein said, 'Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

Alis volat propiss. (She flies with her own wings.)

As much as choice could sometimes be a burden, not having one was far worse.

relationships you choose to make are far more important than the ones that are forced on you. She's always saying 'you have to love your family, but you don't have to like them, or want to spend time with them.

choice increases the likelihood of compliance. It's not the choice itself that's important, it's the feeling that the person has a choice that makes a difference in behavior.

One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

The king and ministers of Ling may have high rank, but the judge has greater autonomy. As for the silken cord of the monastic law of Dharma, the judge is the one to tie its silken knot, and, as for the golden yoke of the imperial rule, the judge is the one to give it weight.

There the beloved red sweater, bright tangle of necklace, earrings of amber. Each confirming: I chose these, I. But habit is different: it chooses. And we, it's good horse, opening our mouths at even the sight of the bit.

His aim was the creation of self sufficient small towns,really very nice towns if you were docile and had no plans of your own and did not mind spending your life with others with no plans of their own. As in all Utopias, the right to have plans of any significance belonged only to the planner in charge. - discussing Ebenezer Howards' Garden City

Here I am, alone again, alone but not completely by myself, alone without the freedom of not having to think about someone else

Instead of telling him what to do, find ways to involve him in decisions