Quotes About Autonomy

Calitatea ta uman? nu trebuie s? depind? de a celorlal?i

You only find yourself when you disobey. Disobedience is the beginning of responsibility, I think.

Success is fucking up on your own terms.

Despite the many occasions when its characters feel frustrated before the weight of circumstances, and despite blaming their feeling of impotence on daiva, 'fate', moral autonomy shines through in the epic. Because they have some freedom to choose they can be praised when they follow dharma or blamed when they follow adharma. At the moment of making a decision they become conscious of their freedom, and it is this perception of autonomy that gives them the ability to lead authentic moral lives.

Freedom isn?t selective; it is either complete, unfettered, and now . . . or it is not freedom.

Real freedom isn't subject to how others estimate our value; it is in realizing that none are free who find their sense of worth wondering how others measure their lives.

In any relationship where one person depends on another to be his or her "parachute -- and the other accepts this role -- both will fall to the ground.

Living under the defeatist directions of the false self, we wrongly assume that the only way to reach real independence, real safety, is to look to someone else to take us there. It isn't in another's power to do for you what you must do for yourself. It never has been.

Then, rather than trying to change others to suit our needs, our choice would be to simply drop this false idea that someone else is responsible for our fulfillment.

Could one forget how to be free?

We have a need to persuade ourselves we are not at the mercy of the world.

Women have usually been better at this than men, haven't they? Pursuing these subtleties?" "Women have no choice but to be this way if we want any kind of influence, or simply a little control of our own lives.

In fact, I think it would be preferable if we split up. We can watch a wider expanse that way.

Without the freedom to make 'mistakes', people cannot learn to take control of their lives successfully.

We're the sort of people who take our own world with us wherever we go

Take control of your life..don't let the people in your life...take control of you!

Very intimate but very separate at the same time'. That's my credo for friendship.

Our marriage is between us. If we decide to continue being together or not, it's our business.

No, I have no desire to be a feminist, I just want to be a female,

After 3, a body has a mind of its own.

la historia nos enseña que una vez tomadas por alguien todas las instancias del poder, el poder se vuelve autónomo, se alimenta a sí mismo, separado de su sociedad por el mismo control que ejerce sobre ella, y puede arrastrar por años a sus gobernados por el lado equivocado de la historia.

We must learn to speak the language women speak when there is no one there to correct us.

I would like so much to be the freest of free women: so free that I would even be liberated from the painful sensation of being liberated. I would like to be so freely free that I would never even think to say to myself: "How free I am!

He actually knows what has to be done and how to do it, and he's going right ahead and doing it, without holding a dozen conferences and round-table discussions and giving everybody a fair and equal chance to foul things up for him. You know as well as I do that that's undemocratic.