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Quotes About Autonomy

I have my own laws and my own court to judge me, and I refer to these rather than elsewhere.
~ Michel de Montaigne
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to live to yourself.
~ Michel de Montaigne
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~ Michel Foucault
Liberty, far from putting man in possession of himself, ceaselessly alienates him from his essence and his world
~ Michel Foucault
Indie publishing lets me feed my inner control freak.
~ Michelle M. Pillow
At the very least, if I have not - yet- chosen to end your life, I refuse to allow any of my kin to forever deprive me of my prerogative to do so.
~ Michelle Sagara West
Writing was the antijob, the fuck you to all jobs, her claim on her autonomy, what kept her feral and free.
~ Michelle Tea
El poder de decisión le llega al hombre cuando ya no le hace falta para nada; cuando ni un solo día puede dejar de guiar un carro o picar piedra si no quiere quedarse sin comer. ¿Para qué valía, entonces, la capacidad de decisión de un hombre, si puede saberse? La vida era el peor tirano conocido.
~ Miguel Delibes
El cuerpo no se elige —se decía— pero el alma sí; cada uno hacemos de nuestra alma lo que nos apetece que sea.
~ Miguel Delibes
You will find that you don't need to trust others as much as you need to trust yourself to make the right choices.
~ Miguel Ruiz
Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves.
~ Miguel Ruiz
I respect you when I don't try to tell you how to live your life, how to dress, how to walk, how to talk, how to do whatever you do in your kingdom.
~ Miguel Ruiz
You have the right to believe or not believe these voices and the right not to take what they say personally. We have a choice whether or not to believe the voices we hear within our own minds
~ Miguel Ruiz
Let us trust ourselves completely to make the choices we must make.
~ Miguel Ruiz
You are never responsible for the actions of others; you are only responsible for you.
~ Miguel Ruiz
If you decide to be with a person, don't try to change anything about her. Just like your dog or your cat, let her be who she is. She has the right to be who she is; she has a right to be free. When you inhibit your partner's freedom, you inhibit your own because you have to be there to see what your partner is doing or not doing. And if you love yourself so much, you are never going to give up your personal freedom. Can
~ Miguel Ruiz
Be responsible for every choice you make in your life. This is your life; it's nobody else's life, and you will find that it's nobody else's business what you do with your life.
~ Miguel Ruiz
Love is based on respect. Fear doesn't respect anything, including itself. If I feel sorry for you, it means I don't respect you. You cannot make your own choices.
~ Miguel Ruiz
You have the right to live your own life, in your own way, and there is no wrong way.
~ Miguel Ruiz
Most of the time when we tell our children how to live their lives, it's because we don't respect them. We feel sorry for them, and we try to do for them what they should do for themselves.
~ Miguel Ruiz
Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves. All people live in their own dream, in their own mind; they are in a completely different world from the one we live in.
~ Miguel Ruiz
We don't have the right to change anyone else, and no one else has the right to change us. If we are going to change, it is because we want to change, because we don't want to suffer any longer.
~ Miguel Ruiz
If others change, it's because they want to change, not because you can change them.
~ Miguel Ruiz
Si las personas cambian es porque quieren cambiar, no porque tú puedas cambiarlas.
~ Miguel Ruiz