Quotes About Autonomy

To find yourself, think for yourself. —Socrates

A very important part of creating a new life was independence. She did not want to be accountable to anyone but herself.

Is he a renegade, works best by himself, alienates those in authority? Actually, that would be you, dear. True

I know as well as you do that only the individual has the key to change themselves. It's buried deep inside each and every one of us and although someone else can help us to find the key, we're the only ones who can use it.

She realised that letting someone go was setting them free.

I already know when I'm being bad, and I don't need to be nagged by my underwear.

she had trained him to think she didn't need him.

You know," he said. He paused a minute, as though picking his words carefully. "It's okay to disappoint people sometimes. It's okay for us to say no simply because we don't want to do something." Intellectually

People only stay in your life if they want to. So often, they just go away. And there's really nothing you can do.

You can choose and create the life you want. You are the author of your reality.

He's almost an adult. We have to save ourselves sometimes, Maggie. You should know that.

We don't choose where we come from, Marshall. And we often have little to say about what happens to us. But the adult understands that he and he alone is responsible for his life. You have choices now, choices that will affect your future.

A girl should want to look good for herself, not for boys.

I once asked her if she got bored living alone, and she said, 'To say one is bored to be alone is to admit that one has no inner resources.

What if they were allowed to choose their own mate? And chose wrong?

When people have the freedom to choose, they choose wrong, every single time.

Well..., Jonas had to stop and think it through. If everything's the same, then there are no choices! I want to wake up in the morning and DECIDE things! A blue tunic, or a red one?

If everyting's the same, then there aren't any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide things! (Jonas) It's the choosing that's imortant, isn't it? The Giver asked him.

Henry glared at Anastasia. 'You quit planning on a rich husband, Anastasia. You're gonna get rich on your own. You and me, if we want husbands, fine. But we won't need them. Like our mothers. My mom could do just fine being a waitress, and your mom could do just fine being an artist. They got husbands 'cos they want them. That Bambie, now maybe she'll need a husband. But not you and me. Got it?

If everything's the same, then there aren't any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide things!

The front-buttoned jacket was the first sign of independence, the first very visible symbol of growing up.

The freedom to choose where to spend those hours had always seemed a wonderful luxury to Jonas; other hours of the day were so carefully regulated.

What if they were allowed to choose their own mate? And chose wrong? "Or what if," he went on, almost laughing at the absurdity, "they chose their own jobs?" "Frightening, isn't it?" The Giver said. Jonas chuckled. "Very frightening.

The meaning of yes is created by the ability to say no.