Quotes About Autonomy

You can only control your own actions. Not other people's reactions.

Don't do for a group what a group can do for itself.

I am Born Free How Someone Can Hold Me In The Manacles of Slavery.

The more fully the individual is developed, the greater his freedom.

Emancipation of the toilers can be the work only of the toilers themselves.

Well, you live your life the way you want, I live mine the way I want. We see who makes it farther.

To sum up, the world is mine without effort of mine, and the world has not the slightest hold on me.

A woman deprived of her free will can never have the credit of making a sacrifice.

You don't necessarily have to want to become an adult; it happens as a matter of course, as you go, making choices. The important thing, I think, is to choose for yourself. Standing

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Everyone lives the way she knows best.

Se sei sempre arrabbiata con gli altri, se non fai che dargli addosso, vuol dire che dipendi da loro.

Erika always handled her own problems no matter where they were. He got that from her, and this is the dark side of that independence. It's gone too far!

A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.

We cannot live in a world that is interpreted for us by others. An interpreted world is not a hope. Part of the terror is to take back our own listening. To use our own voice. To see our own light. —Hildegard of Bingen

Although I am allowed to admire what is growing in the well-tended fields of my religious neighbors, I am not allowed to pull off the road and help myself. The things I envy have their own terroir , their own long histories of weather and fertilization. They do not exist to serve me, improve me, or profit me. They have their own dominion.

From the time he was young, he dressed the way you told him to dress; he acted the way you told him to act; he said the things you told him to say. He's been listening to somebody else tell him what to do... He hasn't changed. He is still listening to somebody else tell him what to do. The problem is, it isn't you any,ore; it's his peers.

I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I started my business at the age of twenty three and I didn't want one more boss telling me what to do. So I was motivated simply because I didn't want a boss.

Vulnerable. It wasn't a word she liked the sound of. It was a weak word. A needy word. And she didn't want to need anyone.

Always, there must be free will. It is not for us to impose our beliefs on others or to endeavor to persuade one to the practices of our faith. We do not seek those who need our help. Rather, they must seek us and request our assistance. —Esmée Roussel, the Dress Witch" Davis, Barbara. The Keeper of Happy Endings

Please . . . don't do this. Don't try to get in my head and figure me out. I promise you, it isn't worth it.

That's the dilemma with family. When it comes to our parents, we're always children. At what point do we grow up? They raise us to function as individuals, but when do they allow us to act independently?

He shook his head. "For me." Leaving the bed, he went to the door, picked up the large picnic basket that the girls were holding, then closed the door, leaving them outside. Much as he had needed their help earlier, he didn't want an audience now.

This is your space to do with as you please, a playground where you can create the game with all its rules without compromise—one of the perks of living alone.