Quotes About Autonomy

El tiempo de los suicidas ha de ser extraño porque está enteramente en su mano terminarlo

The irony is that if you're like most people, you allow everything and everyone, except you, to determine what you are feeling. Said differently, you allow external influences to dictate your emotions.

Beliefs are choices. No one has authority over your personal beliefs. Your beliefs are in jeopardy only when you don't know what they are.

A wild creature is not subject to any will except its own

This technique works for humans as well. If you have a kid who is reluctant to get dressed, give her a choice of clothing. That makes her feel powerful. Wrong: Would you please get dressed? Right: Which do you want to wear, the red shirt or the blue one?

Fictional characters soon take on a life of their own. They run with the bit between their teeth.

c'est moi"—"the state is myself

Just because you're a slave to your lover in the bedroom doesn't mean you have to be a slave to him in the rest of your life.

It must be wonderful to be you, Dominic, and know that you alone have shaped yourself. It must be even more wonderful for other people, your mother and even God Himself for all I know, to know that. It absolves them of a terrible responsibility.

In a basic sense, the greater the development of each individual the more able, more effective, and less needy of limiting or restricting others she or he will be.

You have to be enough for yourself, Maddie. No one else can do it.

We heed no instincts but our own.

Mama and Nathan lean on me a lot, but they give me a lot of rope, too. Maybe too much." "Maybe," I say. "I can shorten it for you.

We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves.

What happened to perfectly capable kids who'd been so bombarded with help that they felt helpless to do anything on their own? Or the kids who'd been so driven at home, they'd never had to find their own drive? It couldn't be good, she thought.

Nobody else gets to live your life.

The best way to keep from being a victim is to write your own terms." It

Being guided is not being manipulated. Being exploited is.

First you recognize stillness, then you are it. You feel yourself as autonomous, that is, not identified with what is all around you. And now true relation is possible.

No matter what the cause, the result is the same: iGen teens are less likely to experience the freedom of being out of the house without their parents--those first tantalizing tastes of the independence of being an adult, those times when teens make their own decisions, good or bad.

Each time one prematurely teaches a child something he could have discovered himself, that child is kept from inventing it and consequently from understanding it completely.

Children should be able to do their own experimenting and their own research. Teachers, of course, can guide them by providing appropriate materials, but the essential thing is that in order for a child to understand something, he must construct it himself, he must re-invent it. Every time we teach a child something, we keep him from inventing it himself. On the other hand that which we allow him to discover by himself will remain with him visibly for the rest of his life.

Now I no longer wish to be loved, beautiful, happy or successful. I want one thing and one thing only - to be left alone.

To be adult is to be alone.