Quotes About Autonomy

I consider the indiscriminate propagation of self-help to be morally unacceptable... self-help is the opposite of autonomous or vernacular life.

The challenging part of parenting for me is to make sure that an individual person is an individual and not some sort of cookie-cutter version of me. At the same time, I want to make sure that I impart my sense of the world as an adult.

To me, success was not having to have a boss and not having a day job. I've been living my own version of success since the early '90s when I first got signed. I haven't had a job since then.

My version of Dolly was mine, and it shouldn't be anyone else's.

I don't have to play by these rules or do these things... I can actually have my own kind of version.

There's always going to be a separate version of you that people will create, and you have no control over it.

docil prin condiÈ›ie, prin gust, prin obicei, n-am ajuns mai târziu la rebeliune decât fiindc? dusesem supunerea la maximum.

Mi-a pl?cut întotdeauna mai degrab? s? m? acuz pe mine decât universul: nu din bun?tate: ca s? nu depind decât de mine.

it stands behind me like a boneless ghost and depends on me alone to lend it my flesh.

Ma liberté s'arrête ou commence celle d'autrui. 

Aquel que quiere ser amado, debe querer la libertad del otro, porque de ella emerge el amor, si lo someto, se vuelve objeto, y de un objeto no puedo recibir amor

It is your show. It is your universe. There is no one else here, just you, and nothing is being withheld from you. You are completely on your own. Everything is available for direct knowing. No one else has anything you need. No one else can lead you, pull you, push you or carry you.

I don't see it as my role to save or rescue anybody any more than regular people feel the need to rescue each other from sleeping and dreaming.

We slip into the lives that are laid out for us the way children slip into the clothes their mother lays out for them in the morning. No one decides. We don't live our lives by choice, but by default.

It's terrible to have to depend on someone else.

As I've said, freedom is really an illusion. Anytime we think we have a real choice, it just means we haven't seen the shotgun aimed at our navel. I

All we ask is to be let alone.

What William wanted was of no importance, and he gradually lost his sense of self. He once described himself as an empty hole inside. If you have no sense of self, you are totally dependent. There is an emptiness inside, and the only way to fill it is to rely on someone else, someone who has a sense of self.

She understood that her heart operated on its own instructions, that she had no control over it or, indeed, anything else.

People don't save other people. People save themselves.

Just someone who knows, from personal experience, how attractive it can be to think you can save somebody else by loving them...People don't save other people. People save themselves.

Often he had the impression that the person answering questions from the scratchy armchair was a dummy he was controlling, that this had been true throughout his life, and that his life had become so involved with operating the dummy that he, the ventriloquist, had ceased to have a personality, becoming just an arm stuffed up the puppet's back.

Often he had the impression that the person answering questions from the scratchy armchair was a dummy that he was controlling, that this had been true throughout his life, and that his life had become so involved with operating the dummy that he, the ventriloquist, had ceased to have a personality, becoming just an arm stuffed up the puppet's back.

The brain's gonna do what the brain's gonna do," I told them, "but you don't have to let it push you around.