Quotes About Autonomy

Every man by nature is a freeman born; by nature no man cometh out of the womb under any civil subjection to king, prince, or judge.

As a songwriter and musician, it strikes me that in music, a certain territorial nature when it comes to one's own autonomy around life and art is common and understood.

Parul Wadhwa, The Masquerade

You are the only one who can.

Is It Frightening To Be Free?""You said it.""You Say To People 'Throw Off Your Chains' And They Make New Chains For Themselves?""Seems to be a major human activity, yes.

Freedom without responsibility? What freedom is that? None at all.

Nature never said to me: Do not be poor still less did she say: Be rich her cry to me was always: Be independent.

Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.

The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.

A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.

It is one thing to show your child the way, and a harder thing to then stand out of it

Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.

You may give them your love, but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts.

You may strive to be like them but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

What a strange development of patriotism that turns a thinking being into a loyal machine!

We know that no one should tell a woman she has to bear an unwanted child. We know that religious beliefs cannot define patriotism.

We preferred our own way of living. We were no expense to the government. All we wanted was peace and to be left alone.

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by agreement or by emotional appeal.

Inner # peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your # emotions

Nothing external to you has any power over you.

...he came to the conclusion that you cannot depend on people, and that you can live in peace only if you keep them at arm's length.

So long as a man rides his hobbyhorse peaceably and quietly along the King's highway, and neither compels you or me to get up behind him - pray, Sir, what have either you or I to do with it?

The young should early be trained to bear being left alone; for it is a source of happiness and peace of mind.

Problems occur when we tie our peace of mind to another's state of mind.