Quotes About Autonomy

A girl does not need anyone who does not need her.

Your freedom to be you includes my freedom to be free from you.

There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.

Love ... is the honoring of others in a way that grants them the grace of their own autonomy and allows mutual discovery.

Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.

The most important part of any relationship is allowing others to choose their own response to a situation, and of course this is the most difficult part.

We best serve intimate relationship by becoming sufficiently developed in ourselves that we do not need to feed off others.

I am single and not looking to be in a relationship.

The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.

It's important not to lose who you are in a relationship just because it's nice to cuddle with somebody.

Extreme independence is as destructive to a relationship as total dependence.

Every pot must sit on its own bottom.

If you love someone, set them free.

Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction. Ultimately people shape their own characters.

Raising a child is the only relationship you have where if you do it right, it will end in separation.

On the whole I prefer cats to women because cats seldom if ever use the word 'relationship'.

Seeing yourself as responsible for the quality of your relationship, as a prime mover in your life, I think is a bold, amazing step.

What relationship can you have with yourself if you systematically hand your genitals over to someone else?

Many of our problems with anger occur when we choose between having a relationship and having a self.

To live in relationship and yet remain independent, that is what courage is.

I don't want to be your other half. I believe that one and one make two.

It is better," says Eckhard, "to look at the wall. You look at the wall, you have your own thoughts. You look at he TV, you have the thoughts of the state.

The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms.

Solitude is the beginning of all freedom.