Quotes About Autonomy

Love doesn't have goals or benchmarks or blueprints, but it does have a purpose. The purpose is not to change the people we love, but to give them what they need to thrive. Love's purpose is not to shape our beloved's destiny, but to help them shape their own. It isn't to show them the way, but to help them find a path for themselves, even if the path they take isn't one we would choose ourselves, or even one we would choose for them. The

What makes the terrible twos so terrible is not that the babies do things you don't want them to do --- one-year-olds are plenty good at that --- but that they do things because you don't want them to.

She had already decided that, when she grew up, she was going to do whatever she pleased and not let anyone order her about.

We shall not have the Algerians with us, if they do not want that themselves.... The era of the European administration of the indigenous peoples has run its course.

She shook her head. "I won't go." His chuckle had absolutely no humor in it. "You say that as if you have a choice." "There is always a choice.

The essence of philosophy is the abandonment of all authority in favor of individual human reason.

Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion.

He felt poor, as well, although he didn't consider himself poor. He considered himself free.

Eventually kids become grown-ups too, and from there, the world is whatever they choose to make of it.

everything within our control is a choice. I

that, we are not the type of people who chase down others who spurn us.

Cleo didn't want Bowen, or even Gaby, to tell her how to stay safe in a storm. She didn't want Matty to ask who looked out for her. She did. That was just how it had been since she was seventeen. Besides,

Hey No one makes me do anything. Not my family. Not your family...not even you.

In a place where everyone knew my story, it was nice to know there was a chapter that ONLY I HAD TO READ. :)

But I kept it to myself--maybe because I didn't think it mattered, but probably because, in a place where everyone knew my story, it was nice to know there was a chapter that only I had read.

You wanted to be treated like grown-ups? Well, that includes both the good and the bad.

But there are things you tell yourself. And there are things you know. And Maddie knew that the one person she could depend on was herself. But that's okay, she thought. I'm usually enough.

in a place where everyone knew my story, it was nice to know there was a chapter that only I had read.

Los aliados no van a hacer una mierda por nosotros. Nadie ha hecho nunca nada por nosotros, ya lo sabes.

This day (Independence Day) reminds us that true independence is not merely the absence of external control, but the resolute presence of self-determination.

If you don't have a strategy, you're part of someone else's strategy.

Sometimes you just have to act on your own. Sometimes you have to do what you know inside to be right.

Do you realize how important it is to be independent? To be able to take care of yourself? To not rely on someone else for your most basic needs? And to not get so damn attached to stuff that you'd rather demean yourself than live without it?

aunque somos libres para elegir nuestro camino, debemos aceptar que los demas tambien son libres para hacer lo mismo.