Quotes About Autonomy

But to look to others as a primary source of our self-value is dangerous: first, because it doesn't work; and second, because it exposes us to the danger of becoming approval addicts.

Genuine self-esteem is what we feel about ourselves when everything is not all right. This means, when we are challenged by the unexpected, when others disagree with us, when we are flung back on our own resources, when the cocoon of the group can no longer insulate us from the tasks and risks of life, when we must think, choose, decide, and act and no one is guiding us or applauding us. At such moments our deepest premises reveal themselves.

What is needed and demanded today, in the age of the knowledge worker, is not robotic obedience but persons who can think.

In the ultimate sense, I accept my aloneness. That is, I accept that no one is coming to make my life right, or save me, or redeem my childhood, or rescue me from the consequences of my choices and actions.

To practice self-responsibility is to think for oneself.

Independence is reliance upon our own mind and judgment, the acceptance of intellectual responsibility for our own existence.

No, my little Pearl! Thou must gather thine own sunshine. I have none to give thee.

It was as if she had been made afresh out of new elements, and must perforce be permitted to live her own life and be a law unto herself without her eccentricities being reckoned to her for a crime.

The world's law was no law for her mind

In the end, both sides wanted what the Pilgrims had been looking for in 1620: a place unfettered by obligations to others.

She is free to do what she wants, and free not to do it.

How many were the years of my life that went by before my body, and my self became really mine, to do with them as I wished? How many were the years of my life that were lost before I tore my body and my self away from the people who held me in their grasp since the very first day?

And, when the revolutionary cries that he is fighting for 'freedom', be sure to go running away from him just as fast as you can, for you can be damned certain he's fighting for the freedom to tell you what to do.

Nov 25, 2016 11:14am Držite se svojih uverenja ako vam to odgovara. Držite se ?vrsto! Nemojte se kolebati! Vaše ideje o ispravnom i pogrešnom jesu vaše definicije o tome ko ste. Ipak, ne zahtevajte da se drugi definišu prema vašim merilima!

definition. How can she not see that when you are defined, you lose the ability to define yourself?

When, she wonders, did she stop being a child? The law says it was when she turned eighteen, but the law doesn't know her.

I am what you made me

I will do everything in my power to save them from themselves, but if I am unsuccessful, at least I can take some comfort in the fact that I would then be free.

There is a fine line between freedom and permission. The former is necessary. The latter is dangerous.

I'd never want a piece of someone else's brain, Kele had said. I mean, you don't know where it's been.

I've had enough of organizations for a while, no matter how good the cause. I prefer being a free-agent rabble-rouser. Dan

have found that building a sandbox around a domineering child, then allowing that child to preside over it, frees the adults to do the real work.

But... don't we get a say? Actually, said Cirrus, no.

Never let anyone else name you