Quotes About Autonomy

Our boundaries are blurred when our desire to be loved and needed by others seduces us into becoming overly involved in their lives. Or when we find ourselves overly committed with tasks and social engagements—even ones we enjoy. We must remember we need time alone, time for the stillness within to nurture us.

It's important to know what you think, my dear, or else you will be so hemmed in by other people's ideas and opinions, you won't have room for your own.

When someone tells me "no," it doesn't mean I can't do it, it simply means I can't do it with them.

I remembered a truism that I had always known: no woman need let a man know the contents of her mind.

The patient must acquire the capacity to assume responsibility for himself, in the sense of feeling himself the active, responsible force in his life, capable of making decisions and of taking the consequences. With this goes an acceptance of responsibility toward others, a readiness to recognize obligations in whose value he believes, whether they relate to his children, parents, friends, employees, colleagues, community, or country.

There's only one very good life, Diana wrote. And that's the life you know you want and you make it yourself.

You've mistaken me for someone else. Do not wait on me, Ms. Lane. Do not construct your world around mine. I'm not that man." "Screw you, Barrons." "I'm not that man, either.

People treat you as badly as you let them treat you. Key word there: let.

He made a lousy passenger, barking instructions I ignored

Naught will be done to you that you doona wish done. Dageus MacKeltar

It's not my fault who I am. The only think that's my fault is what I choose to do

You don't get to make my decisions for me. It's my life and only I know what I need and what I'm willing to go through. I don't want to live without you. I felt that once. I never want to feel it again." I'd been lost, purposeless, denied Heaven. It was as if his frequency and my frequency made such an exquisite song together that without it I wasn't alive.

Did he think I would beg him to stay? Never. People had to want to stay, choose to be with you, or it meant nothing.

I resent being cued. It makes me not want to know.

Acts done by my body against my will are not my acts.

It's not my fault who I am. The only thing that's my fault is what I choose to do with it.

Who wants to be around someone that can change them? Too much power to let another person have!

That is how to live: in the choosing. There are no rules but those you make for yourself.

Then you shouldn't be boinking him!" "It's my own business who I boink

And she doesn't want company. I can't fault her for that. We all must make our way alone before we're much good at making our way together.

Chiseled a single commandment upon a slab of stone: That is how to live: in the choosing. There are no rules but those you make for yourself.

Kim olduÄŸumu öÄŸrendiÄŸin zaman, erkeÄŸin olmama izin ver.

Don't need your approval," I say irritably. "Don't need anybody's." "Stay that way.

How dare anything tamper with our innate structure? Who the hell was it to decide what was right and wrong with us?