Quotes About Autonomy

It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.

But you are not his prisoner of war, unless you choose to be. Those days can be over. That's your call.

I have gotten to the age where I try and let other people solve their own problems." "What age is that, anyway?

None of us can help you any more than you can help yourself—have you never thought that this

Most Indians don't identify themselves as American particularly, but as members of nations unto themselves." She looked at me blankly. "A nation, like a tribe.

Everyone deserves to walk their own path.

Passing judgment on others for decisions that affect only themselves is absolutely noxious to any anarchist – not to mention it makes them less likely to experiment with the options you offer.

After about four minutes of modeling what I want students to do on their own, I release the class to choose an article for themselves that they think will address a question they have. Students head to the table at the front of the room where the articles are arranged.

I resent the hell out of the politicians and generals who force events on us that structure our lives, that dictate the memories we'll have when we're old.

I don't need anyone's pity. My life has been what it has been. It's not a wonderful story, but it's mine.

He nacido libre, he vivido libre y moriré libre. Cristina de Suecia

No tener que obedecer es dicha mayor que mandar en toda la Tierra».

I was still pondering her comments, when she hit me with the bomb. She said that the only time a woman is ready for a man in her life is when she didn't need one.

After twelve years in the major leagues, I do not feel I am a piece of property to be bought and sold irrespective of my wishes.

I've given up listening to people. What can they tell me that is so much more to the point than what I've always known? All the mistakes in my life came from accepting advice.

To remain alone did not seem to me a terrible fate, no worse than being falsely joined to another person.

She knew he cared for her... but that it didn't matter. They each had to follow their own road.

He could ask Lilly to stay, and she might. But his pride refused to ask her... She had to make the choice on her own to stay. If she didn't make the choice, she'd always be looking east.

But doing others' work for them, even emotional work, robs them of the right to feel their feelings and heal their own pain and issues. We can only learn from our own problems; we can heal only issues that are our own. Think about how different you'd feel if you were free of all those shoulds and instead focused on your own coulds. That's the goal of establishing the correct energetic boundaries.

no choice was wrong except the one that was imposed on us.

This was the part she hated, the part of a relationship that always nudged her to bail, the part where someone else's misery or expectations or neediness crept into her carefully prescribed world. It was such a burden, other people's lives.

It's not your job to be anyone's mirror.

She looked at her hand: Just some hand, holding a cheap pen. Some girls' hand. She had nothing to do with that hand. Let that hand do whatever it wanted to.

The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.