Quotes About Autonomy

The most successful people recognize that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation.

How do you react when you think you need people's love? Do you become a slave for their approval?

The fate of your heart is your choice and no one else gets a vote

I am a drifter, and as lonely as that can be, it is also remarkably freeing. I will never define myself in terms of anyone else.

No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.

Eventually I knew what hair wanted; it wanted to be itself ... to be left alone by anyone, including me, who did not love it as it was.

Unfortunatley, Lady of the Haven, my one true love remains my self.

I was not rescued by a prince; I was the administrator of my own rescue.

It is hard, though, 'cos record labels love to boss you around. I won't let them do that anymore.

I'm an individual, and an individual can't follow and doesn't want to lead.

It is far better to render Beings in your care competent than to protect them.

It is better, proverbially, to rule your own spirit than to rule a city.

if one wants to live a full life, one first sets one's own house in order;

the foremost rule is that you must take responsibility for your own life. Period.

Si dices «no» a tu jefe, a tu mujer o a tu madre cuando hay que decírselo, entonces te transformas en alguien que puede decir «no» cuando hay que decirlo. Por el contrario, si dices «sí» cuando tienes que decir «no», te transformas en alguien que solo puede decir «sí», incluso cuando manifiestamente toca decir lo contrario.

After all, if you're not the leading man in your own drama, you're a bit player in someone else's—and you might well be assigned to play a dismal, lonely and tragic part

Freud and Jung, with their intense focus on the autonomous individual psyche, placed too little focus on the role of the community in the maintenance of personal mental health.

There is great intrinsic pleasure in helping already competent and admirable young people become highly skilled, socially valuable, autonomous, responsible professionals. It is not unlike the pleasure taken in raising children, and it is one of the primary motivators of valid ambition.

To sacrifice ourselves to God (to the highest good, if you like) does not mean to suffer silently and willingly when some person or organization demands more from us, consistently, than is offered in return. That means we are supporting tyranny, and allowing ourselves to be treated like slaves. It is not virtuous to be victimized by a bully, even if that bully is oneself.

is far better to render Beings in your care competent than to protect them.

is necessary to lift your eyes above the horizon, to establish a transcendent goal, if you wish to cease being a puppet, under the control of things you do not understand and perhaps do not want to understand. Then

It is necessary to lift your eyes above the horizon, to establish a transcendent goal, if you wish to cease being a puppet, under the control of things you do not understand and perhaps do not want to understand.

Jordan B. Peterson

You can use your own standards of judgment. You can rely on yourself for guidance. You don't have to adhere to some external, arbitrary code of behaviour (although you should not overlook the guidelines of your culture. Life is short, and you don't have time to figure everything out on your own. The wisdom of the past was hard-earned, and your dead ancestors may have something useful to tell you).