Quotes About Autonomy

Let go of the idea that someone else can make your life wonderful. Your happiness is in your own hands; that's the safest place for it.

Don't depend on a partner for your self-esteem. Never give away your value to someone else.

Living alone provides the guardrails of friends and inner autonomy as insurance against losing oneself in that first delirium of infatuation and prematurely surrendering to a relationship you might later regret.

Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.

Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.

You always have to think for yourself.

In the early stages of a pregnancy, the Government cannot intervene with a woman's right to choose. That is it, plain and simple. Guess what. We are not going to be big brother or sister, as the case may be. We are going to allow a woman, her doctor, and her God to make that decision.

I didn't do drugs when I was pregnant; you're the way you are on your own.

Although it may not seem finished to anyone else, it's finished to you. It's your project. You did it by choice. You have the right to decide when you're done.

Autonomy and separatism are fundamentally different. Whereas autonomy comes from a position of strength, separatism comes from a position of fear. When we're truly autonomous we can deal with other kinds of people, a multiplicity of issues, and with difference, because we have formed a solid base of strength.

Just as claiming our power is an act of self-love, forsaking it is an act of self-betrayal. We pay dearly for deference and dependency. It costs us our autonomy, self-esteem, and peace of mind.

We are each the authors of our own lives, Emma. We live in what we have created. There is no way to shift the blame and no one else to accept the accolades.

Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause, He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws.

I need no Chief," said the Kaiser; "I can do this for myself.

Do not expect the mind of your son is to resemble yours, as your figure is reflected by the image in the glass; he was formed, like you, to use his own judgment, and he claims the high privilege of his nature.

Liberty is potential. To create a free being is to place before it the problem of its destiny.

If there be an axiom evident to all, it is this, that liberty is a first necessity of existence.

Just as every man must see for himself, so every man must believe for himself. Acceptation of truth is a purely personal, individual act.

God wills man to be free, but the emancipation of himself is in man's own hands.

Freedom consists in the exercise of the will in overthrowing every opposition which restrains the development of the nature of the creature.

The free creature can alone say of itself "I am." In a word, the free creature is the only one with veritable being.

When the creature takes full possession of the liberty it has received it becomes a person.

I would rather be a failure on my own terms than a success on someone else's," Waits said on the album's release.

We can't control everything thing our kids do. Sooner or later they're just gonna do what they're gonna do. They're like people that way.