Quotes About Autonomy

I'll wheel you into the kitchen, Katy,' said Clover. 'I can wheel myself,' I said. 'So what have you two been up to?

because you can't encourage independence of spirit and expect a child to remain hanging on to your skirts.

Undisciplined, determined to be free.

voluntary part of their

A man's weakness and strength, purity and impurity, are his own, and not another man's; they are brought about by himself, and not by another; and they can only be altered by himself, never by another.

cease to be a slave to self, and no man will have the power to enslave you. As

A man's weakness and strength, purity and impurity, are his own, and not another man's; they are brought about by himself, and not by another; and they can only be altered by himself, never by another.

A man's weakness and strength, purity and impurity, are his own, and not another man's; they are brought about by himself, and not by another; and they can only be altered by himself, never by another. His condition is also his own, and not another man's. His suffering and his happiness are evolved from within. As he thinks, so he is; as he continues to think, so he remains. A

When you say yes to something you don't want to do, here is the result: you hate what you are doing, you resent the person who asked you, and you hurt yourself.

There is nobody you need to impress. There is nobody who is judging you. And there will be nobody who can stop you.

If you don't choose yourself, someone else will and the result won't be pleasant.

symbolically, nobody can deliver wisdom to you except you. The being who finds peace inside himself needs nobody to tell him what to do, nobody to project their own fantasies onto him.

if you don't make courageous choices for yourself, nobody else will.

I don't blame them. I never blame anyone but myself. Every second I am manipulated and coerced and beaten down it's because I've allowed it.

Be an entrepreneur at work. An "entre-ployee." Take control of who you report to, what you do, what you create. Or start a business on the side. Deliver some value—any value—to somebody, anybody, and watch that value compound into a career.

Never have your happiness dependent on a yes or no decision from one person.

Choose Yourself! Copyright © 2013 by James Altucher

Freedom to help ourselves so that we can help others. Freedom to live the life we choose to lead, instead of having to live the life that has been chosen for us.

you choose your family, your friends, your colleagues, your tribe, your life.

Everything in life is about having as many options as possible so you can maximize your freedom.

But one thing is for sure: if you don't make courageous choices for yourself, nobody else will. There's

The ethic of the Choose Yourself era is to not depend on those stifling trends that are defeating you. Instead, build your own platform, have faith and confidence in yourself instead of a jury-rigged system, and define success by your own terms.

If the wants, needs, and prejudices of others, even those you love, take up too much mental real estate in your brain, then you have no room left over to actually be the person you were meant to be—the person who actually has the potential to help others.

if you don't make courageous choices for yourself, nobody else will. There's