Quotes About Autonomy

To live as it pleases me, or not to live at all.

This – is now my way: where is yours?' Thus I answered those who asked me 'the way'. For the way – does not exist!

This- is now my way,- where is yours? Thus did I answer those who asked me the way. For the way- it does not exist!

Another form on sagacity and self-defence consists in reacting as seldom as possible and withdrawing from situations and relationships in which one would be condemned as it were to suspend ones 'freedom', ones initiative, and become a mere reagent.

Can you furnish yourself with your own good and evil and hang up your own will above yourself as a law? Can you be judge of yourself and avenger of your law? It is terrible to be alone with the judge and avenger of one's law. It is to be like a star thrown forth into empty space and into the icy breath of solitude.

you had to become master over yourself, master of your own good qualities. Formerly they were your masters: but they should be merely your tools along with other tools.

The double role of living systems as parts and wholes requires the interplay of two opposite tendencies: an integrative tendency to function as part of a larger whole, and a self-assertive, or self-organizing tendency to preserve individual autonomy (see Chapter 7).

My freedom is not and cannot be something that I observe as I observe an outward fact; rather it must be something that I decide, moreover, without appeal. It is beyond the power of anyone to reject the decision by which I assert my freedom and this assertion is ultimately bound up with the consciousness that I have of myself.

La mera posibilidad no es todavía una libertad.

Love shouldn't be dictated

Gustavo Solivellas dice: La verdadera libertad consiste en el dominio absoluto de sí mismo (Galileo Galilei)

Individualism is cherished because it produces freedom, but the gift is conditional.

The protagonist in 'Winter's Bone' was a really good role for a female. She was strong; she didn't have to conform to something or be a sidekick to any man. That's part of what you're responding to; it's a woman-centric situation. Her value in the film was not reliant on any man.

A big part of the equation for 'Winter's Bone' was making it for so little that we owe nobody. We had a guaranteed loan and were able to pay it back.

Support space-resource and industrial infrastructure. Multibillion-dollar satellites or voyagers to Mars and beyond, if we don't live off the land, we will always only be visitors or wire stringers in territories we do not inhabit or control.

It's not wise to just blindly copy what others are doing.

The wise use of your freedom to make your own decisions is crucial to your spiritual growth, now and for eternity.

By now all rock bands are wise enough to be suspicious of music industry scum.

I know that keeping aloof is not a wise thing but since I have nothing to prove, please don't depict me as an escapist.

I've never been told what to do by Fahadh. That because you are married to me, this is how you should be. Nothing has changed career wise or in my personal life.

Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself.

I myself think that the wise man meddles little or not at all in affairs and does his own things.

You will not make a man wiser by taking freedom of action from him. A man can only learn when he is free to act.

Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.