Quotes About Autonomy

El hombre no está absolutamente condicionado y determinado, al contrario, es él quien decide si cede ante determinadas circunstancias o si resiste frente a ellas… El hombre no se limita a existir, sino decide cómo será su existencia, en qué se convertirá en el minuto siguiente.

Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them. In other words, man is ultimately self-determining.

Freedom is not something we have and therefore can lose; freedom is what we are.

A human being is not one thing among others - Things determine each other, but Man is ultimately self-determining. What he becomes, within the limits of endowment and environment, he has made out of himself.

Der er et vist mål af frihed til enhver, selv om det kun gælder valget af hårfarve.

Ultimately, man is not subject to the conditions that confront him; rather, these conditions are subject to his decision.

H]uman freedom implies man's capacity to detach himself from himself.

M]an is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he succumbs to conditions or defies them. In other words, man is ultimately self determining. Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become in the next moment.

A human being is a deciding being.

M]an is by no means a product of inheritance and environment. Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end education is just education towards the ability to decide.

M]an is by no means merely a product of heredity and environment. There is a third element: decision. Man ultimately decides for himself! And, in the end, education must be education toward the ability to decide.

instead of fighting the system, it was often better to say yes and then go off and do whatever you thought was best.

Spending the last several years alone had allowed her to grow in strength. Independence and self-reliance were great things. The best part about them was that the only person who could let you down was yourself.

Never sit at a table you can't walk away from." -Joss Whedon

Sexuality is one of the most important ways in which we identify, establish, and maintain our boundaries.

Don't let anyone—no matter how important, famous, or powerful—make you feel ashamed about standing up for your boundaries.

If you enjoy sex or explore aspects of your sexual identity using technology, that experience should belong to you. Only you should get to decide whether it was a good or bad thing to do.

The only advice … that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions.

Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure

There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

To let oneself be carried on passively is unthinkable.

It is much more important to be oneself than anything else. Do not dream of influencing other people...Think of things in themselves.

If we face the fact, for it is a fact, that there is no arm to cling to, but that we go alone and that our relation is to the world of reality and not only to the world of men and women...

I find myself saying briefly and prosaically that it is much more important to be oneself than anything else. Do not dream of influencing other people, I would say, if I knew how to make it sound exalted. Think of things in themselves.