Quotes About Autonomy

What's unique about boredom is that, depending on the situation, it can wind us up and leave us feeling irritable, frustrated, or restless, or, rather than getting us worked up, it can leave us feeling lethargic. When we have more control and autonomy over the boring tasks, it's more likely that boredom will leave us feeling lethargic. If we have little autonomy and control over the boring tasks, we are more likely to feel frustration.

We have agency—we believe

Again, no matter what you do, you can't control other people's responses.

setting boundaries is making clear what's okay and what's not okay, and why.

If you own this story, you get to write the ending.

If you own this story you get to write the ending. If you own this story you get to write the ending.

But I have plenty of experience with trying to meet everyone's expectations so they won't reject me. It's easy to become a slave to that - to lose yourself in it.

We are the authors of our lives. We write our own daring endings.

Real freedom is freedom from the opinions of others. Above all, freedom from your opinions about yourself.

Our lives are not all interconnected. That theory is a crock. Some people truly do not need to be here.

Your momma and daddy leave you at some point, and then you are on your own.

Solitary people, these book lovers. I think it's swell that there are people you don't have to worry about when you don't see them for a long time, you don't have to wonder what they do, how they're getting along with themselves. You just know that they're all right, and probably doing something they like.

Having the possibility to make decisions about what to do with one's life is a great privilege. As far as most people on this planet are concerned, life is simply about survival.

Tener la posibilidad de decidir a qué quiere uno dedicar su vida es un gran privilegio.

I learnt the most important thing you have to know: how to look after yourself. To stand by your own decisions. I didn't become an author during my time in Paris, but that wasn't important. I took the first step towards becoming a human being with self-awareness. The big step forward after that discovery I had made -- that I am myself and nobody else -- while standing outside the community centre in Sveg.

En los países pobres, lo primero que pierden las mujeres es su capacidad de elegir.

The world is evil only when you become its slave.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. what a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.

I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.

Let every one mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made.

As long as possible live free and uncommitted.

So long as a man is faithful to himself, everything is in his favor, government, society, the very sun, moon, and stars.

In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world.