Quotes About Autonomy

Also, I used to think that one day I might get someone to iron my shirts, but the truth is I really like doing them myself.

we cannot choose for our children whether they live or die. It is a devastating realization, but also liberating. I finally chose life for myself. I chose the perilous but essential path that allows me to accept that Nic will decide for himself how—and whether—he will live his life.

Resist trying to be what other people want you to be. Anyone in your life who tries to change you is really saying: as I can't control myself I will try and control you. By the same token, don't attempt to control other people's behaviour - it's not your place.

Authority, I say, is held by a person or persons who lead humans to a fuller exercise of their freedom to accomplish human tasks.

I didn't want to be responsible for Alisa; I had a hard enough time being responsible for myself.

La peor consecuencia de la vejez es que los demás invaden tu intimidad. Ya nadie respeta las manías, las costumbres, tu forma particular de hacer las cosas, desde la higiene a la organización del día. Alguien, con la intención de ayudar, se ocupa de ti. Pero ocuparse de ti es ocupar tu territorio íntimo. La independencia perdida de mi padre le transformó en un señor malhumorado. La incapacidad para valerse solo le enfrentó con los demás.

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.' Theodore Roosevelt On

grown women don't make mistakes; they make decisions!

Read and admire, but then go back to first principles and ask the question yourself, in your own way. Dare to disagree.

We each have a particular way of shaping ourselves in the world. To take on someone else's conversational style and to keep repeating other people's questions as if they were our own is to exhaust ourselves. It doesn't matter if it is the thoughts of Socrates or Susan Sontag. Read and admire, but then go back to first principles and ask the question yourself, in your own way. Dare to disagree.

Do they know they make the honey for you? Or do they work tirelessly because they think its their own choice?

Just go. When you're on your deathbed you're gonna wish you could get back all the time you spent waiting on other people.

Do the bees know they make the honey for you? Or do they work tirelessly because they think it is their own choice?

Surrealism sought to maintain its autonomy and the right to continue its own particular investigations into ways of changing consciousness, the role of the unconscious within the social body, and the current state of language both visual and verbal.

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Freedom, in the abstract, is irresponsibility for your choices. Freedom, in reality, is total responsibility for your choices. Treat freedom with the responsibility and realism it deserves.

If you don't value freedom above everything else, everything else is worthless

Oh, yes. I mean to marry him. But not because I want him to give me a life. I want to marry him to share the life I already have. The difference, I think you will find, is a significant one.

I put my hands on my hips, not caring if I sounded like a Billingsgate fishwife. "Yes, it was a dangerous thing to do, but as it seems to have escaped your attention, I remind you I am above thirty years of age, of sound body and mind, and in control of my own fortune. That means," I said, moving closer still, poking his chest for emphasis, "I am mistress of myself and answer to no one.

but just beneath the bell was a small scarlet plaque bearing the name of the club and the legend ALIS VOLAT PROPRIIS. "'She flies with her own wings,'" I translated.

I am an adult person who is not answerable to children.

I am angry at being used as a pawn," I retorted. "I am not your chess piece to move as you see fit, my lady. I was not engaged upon this investigation simply because you wished to amuse Her Royal Highness or make certain Miles Ramsforth didn't hang. You were testing me.

I would not like him to be a pawn in someone else's political gamesmanship.

She deserves to be left in peace, not displayed like a fairground attraction for people with half a shilling to gawp at.