Quotes About Autonomy

I understand that trying and achieving are the same thing when you are your own master—and I am.

The greatest gift a parent can leave a child is that parent's own independence.

My petunias," she tells me in a flat voice, "are none of your business.

this knowledge—like love, sex, or having or not having a baby—has nothing to do with government.

She would always say that people who try to control people and change people's habits are the ones that make all the trouble. If you don't like somebody, walk away, she said, but don't try and make them like you. ---Harriet, on what Ole Golly says

There's as many ways to live as people.

You are the only person who thinks in your mind! You are the power and authority in your world.

La libertad es el mejor marido.

Nigdy niczego nie potrzebuj?... Odmawiam wszystkiego... Nie chc? ani poca?unku... ani r?cznika! Chc? tylko pogr??a? si? we wspomnieniach!... I ?eby zostawiono mnie w spokoju!... Wszystkie wspomnienia!... Okoliczno?ci! To wszystko, czego sobie ?ycz?!...

He is a guy without collective importance. He is just an individual.

You can't change the way he feels," the doctor said. "But you can change the way you react to what he says and does. You have power over that, Madeleine. His emotions don't have to dictate your responses.

You have to make yourself whole—no one else can.

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I hope you know that about yourself, that you are perfect on your own. You have to make yourself whole—no one else can.

hope you know that about yourself, that you are perfect on your own. You have to make yourself whole—no one else can.

No me importa lo que puedan opinar. No tengo interés en verme como me ven los otros. Phillipa Gordon. Ana la de la isla.

I may not be able to do much that I want to do but I won't do another thing that I don't want to do.

You sometimes see in a wind a piece of paper blowing about anyhow. Suppose the piece of paper could make the decision: 'Now I want to go this way.' I say: 'Queer, this paper always decides where it is to go, and all the time it is the wind that blows it. I know it is the wind that blows it.' That same force which moves it also in a different way moves its decisions.

No one can think a thought for me in the way that no one can don my hat for me.

Just be indipendent of the external world, so you don't have to fear for what's in it.

The world is independent of my will.

Die Logik muss für sich selber sorgen

Anything your reader can do for himself leave to him.

For him freedom meant doing exactly what you wanted all the time. Was that freedom for everybody?