Quotes About Autonomy

Mother left us alone to enjoy our own company while she enjoyed hers and reclaimed precious time for herself. When she wasn't living her solitude, she was contemplating it.

Because we bear responsibility for our own actions alone. Not for anyone else's.

ya mutlu olmay? seçeceksin ya da mutsuzluÄŸu. BaÅŸka kimse senin ad?na karar veremez.

We turn on the TV and leave it on, allowing someone else to guide us, shape us, and destroy us.

For me, there is no happiness without freedom, and freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves.

We are all surrounded by other autonomous people who don't always behave as we'd like.

Der ganze Plan ist in seiner Grundform unendlich einfach (...): Man gebe uns die Souveränität eines für unsere gerechten Volksbedürfnisse genügenden Stückes der Erdoberfläche, alles andere werden wir selbst besorgen.

freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

People don't necessarily like to be experimented on. Not even by fiction.

IT IS A MISTAKE to suppose that all men, or at least all Englishmen, want to be free. On the contrary, if freedom entails responsibility, many of them want none of it. They would happily exchange their liberty for a modest (if illusory) security.

A real man—a financier—was never a tool. He used tools. He created. He led. Clearly

Eddy, I've made my own way since I was a kid, and when I marry it's going to be because the man I love and a girl named Tina are traveling together in the same direction at approximately the same speed, and each under his own power. I won't be steered, towed, nor provided with an icebreaker. (...)

no one knows what's really wrong with you but you; no one can find a cure for it but you; no one but you can identify it as a cure; and once you find it, no one but you can do anything about it.

Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice... No one can prevent you from being aware of each step you take or each breath in and breath out.

Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice.

For true love to be there, you need to feel complete in yourself, not needing something from outside.

We are not passive. To be passive means to be pulled, pushed, and swayed by circumstances or the people around us.

I don't want people following Jon Kabat-Zinn. I want them following themselves.

My confidence comes from me, not from Jon Jones. I can't draw my confidence from another person.

I don't like to give advice. I like to give people information because everyone's life is different, and everyone's journey is different.

You get to a certain age and you can't judge yourself on your dad or your parents.

A bowler is his own captain. I know what needs to be done, what the ball is doing. If you don't know where you are going to bowl and where you think the batsman will hit, then how can you tell the captain what you want? You are the judge.

The thing is, if you're in this world, you have to do things for yourself, not for others, because everyone will judge you for anything.

It's not for other people to judge me.