Quotes About Autonomy

Life offers two great gifts--time, and the ability to choose how we spend it. Planning is a process of choosing among those many options. If we do not choose to plan, then we choose to have others plan for us.

If we are to progress in the spiritual walk so that the Disciplines are a blessing and not a curse, we must come to the place in our lives where we can lay down the everlasting burden of always needing to manage others.

Progress without the reasoned freedom to think and act is regression to slavery.

I'm not a huge fan of other people's logic.

Then don't tell me who to kill and when. It unsettles my tranquil disposition.

don't tell me who to kill and when. It unsettles my tranquil disposition.

One of the things that you learn in a rural area like that is self-reliance," he said. "People do everything themselves. That kind of self-reliance is something you can learn, and my grandfather was a huge role model for me: If something is broken, let's fix it. To get something new done you have to be stubborn and focused, to the point that others might find unreasonable.

Adults need to come to understand that the child does not want any of our power. He merely wants some of his own.

If other people don't meet your needs, you have to be willing to walk out, since in the end that may well be the only one way to protect your interests.

Sometimes I venture to call my soul my own

I have a life. A real one. And not all of it is with you.

If I thought my previous employer ran a sweatshop, it was an afternoon tea party compared to being self-employed.

There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.

There's no such thing as neutral education. Education either functions as an instrument to bring about conformity or freedom.

I want to tell you this story without having to be in it

our professions, as presently organized, often discourage self-help, self-discovery, and self-reliance;

The important thing is to recognize that when they want to do something on their own, it's not a rejection of you, it's simply an affirmation of who they are. It's their way of touching base and staying happy and if you don't let them do it, you'll lose the person you love.

Freedom is only given to those who can handle the consequences that come with it

Hunter-gatherer women are therefore not normally treated badly, and many ethnographers have concluded that, in comparison to most societies, married women lead lives of high status and considerable autonomy.

choice is our superhuman power. It allows us to change everything all at once,

Similarly, when we as parents get in the habit of doing small things to make our children's lives easier—when we clean up after them, drive them places that they could walk to, fill out applications for our teenagers, pay teenagers' parking tickets, or regularly jump in to solve children's problems with peers, teachers, or coaches—we run the risk of making our children more fragile, entitled, and self-occupied.

Oh, Frank. Can you really think artists and writers are the only people entitled to lives of their own?

And you know what else I used to love? I loved to watch you get into your car and drive away - just because it meant you knew exactly what you were doing, and because you always did it so well.

It doesn't matter. Take Eddie's blood. Take Belikov's blood. Take your own for all I care. But If she doesn't want to give hers, then that's all there is to it. She said no. This conversation is done.