Quotes About Autonomy

It is simply up to the individual to decide what "the One" is: how it should be defined, and how it should be experienced

You don't want to wake up one morning and realize that everything you've done in your life has been to please someone else. That you've let yourself be railroaded along the way.

I don't want to know where Semco is headed. It doesn't unnerve me to see nothing on the company's horizon. I want Semco and its employees to ramble through their days, to use instinct, opportunity, and ingenuity to choose projects and ventures.

At Semco we accept that every individual wants and needs a worthwhile pursuit in life. It's up to us to provide the environment and opportunity for their gratification.

Semco, we abolish manuals, procedures, and policies so that people are free to improvise, to soar, and to collect the moments of happiness that constitute genuine success.

You can't call your life your own: and in return you have safety, if it's worth having at the price you pay.

Listen,' he said. 'It's important. We are all. Free. To do. Whatever. We want. To do.

The only law is one which leads to freedom

We choose, ourselves, to be hurt or not to be hurt, no matter what. Us who decides. Nobody else.

Responsible is Able to Respond, able to answer for the way we choose to live. There's only one person we have to answer to, of course, and that is...? ...ourselves.

Are you saying I can fly?" "I say you are free.

whatever stands against that freedom must be set aside, be it ritual or superstition or limitation in any form.

Just read The Virtue of Minding Your Own Business. Oh my, what currents run deep! Beautifully seen, beautifully told. Praise praise praise . . . Pardon my French, but you are one darn major American writer! ---Richard Bach, author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull and Illusions, on Sandcastle and Other Stories

I didn't see how that applied to me, and reminded myself never to let a book replace my own thinking

Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose.

the forces of rulers and ritual slowly, slowly will kill our freedom to live as we choose.

We are all. Free. To do. What- ever. We want. To do.

Gracias por tratar de hacerme sentir culpable, porque nunca más cambiaré de rumbo para complacer a otro.

I allow the world to live as it chooses, and I allow me to live as I choose.

Just because people love your mind, doesn't mean they have to have your body, too

The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.

No matter what situation you're in, you always have a choice.

Describe your ideal job. Go into detail about how you would feel, what experiences you would have, and how you would be treated.

A part is not just a temporary emotional state or habitual thought pattern. Instead, it is a discrete and autonomous mental system that has an idiosyncratic range of emotion, style of expression, set of abilities, desires, and view of the world. In other words, it is as if we each contain a society of people, each of whom is at a different age and has different interests, talents, and temperaments. In