Quotes About Autonomy

The great thing about fact-based decisions is that they overrule the hierarchy.

Achieving simplicity begins with the basic notion that you're the captain of your fate: you are in control, steer the rudder, pull the lever, flip the switch, and call the shots.

If you want to, and you don't, then that's on you.

People bring their own shit to the way they see things. If they don't believe what you're doing is right, that's their choice. But the choice has more to do with them than with you. Don't worry about it. You made your own choice.

Rob's confidence was communicated with a simple look that said, If you want to, and you don't, then that's on you.

Because it's our choices that makes us who we are...

Back in those days it was just me swimming around in the dark, doing back flips and taking naps whenever I want.

Hank: As unbelievable as you may find this, Scott, we can do some things without your guidance. Warren: You're right, Hank! Why, did you know I went to the bathroom this morning- Hank: Not without Scott! Warren: Yes!

Hackers, makers, programmers, engineers, nerds, techies — what we'll call "geeks" for the rest of the book (deal with it) — we're a creative lot who don't like to be told what to do.

way counselors would shut someone down when they started arguing that they didn't have to listen, they were going to do it their own way. The counselors would point out that "Your best thinking is what put you here.

is nothing more liberating than playing an illogical game where only you understand all of the rules.

This quote I will do alone, leaving you behind. Don't follow. I'm well beyond you now, and traveling very fast.

Non volevo le loro voci nella mia mente, le loro idee su di me, le loro storie o i loro problemi personali. Perché avrebbero dovuto volere i miei?

You put yourself here. Set this trap for yourself. So if you feel trapped by it now, it is your own fault. - The Director

Make good boundaries your goal. They are your right, your responsibility, your greatest source of dignity.

codependent behaviors. Generally these are behaviors that are care taking of others to the point where you and your needs are lost.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

You shouldn't act as a spokesperson for someone who's trying to impose his will on you.

Never let a man be responsible for your happiness.

The minute you supply a person with the answers, by that very action you block them, once and for all, from the opportunity of inventing those same answers for themselves. If you want to go on an ego trip, to show how smart you are, give the answers. But if what you want is action to be taken, then you must refrain from giving the answers.

Mrs. Arbuthnot said she did see, but nevertheless she thought it rather silly to have everything taken out of their hands. I love things to be taken out of my hands, said Mrs. Wilkins.

I wasn't sure it was right to abandon myself to lighthearted banter, to allow someone to interfere with my being able to behave in whatever way I chose, whenever I wanted. What if I wanted to enjoy a memory or a good cry? I wasn't weaned from that yet; I wasn't finished being with him in the only way I had left.

Always pick the thing that is not a chain, is one way to try to save the world.

Yet what keeps me from dissolving right now into a complete fairy-tale shimmer is this solid truth, a truth which has veritably built my bones over the last few years--I was not rescued by a prince; I was the administrator of my own rescue.