Quotes About Autonomy

Don't let yourself be controlled by three things: people, money, or past experiences.

Everything you do is based on the choices you make. it's not your parents, your past relationship, your job, the economy, the weather, an argument or your age that is blame. you and you are responsible for every decision and choice you make.

You can choose to be happy or sad and whichever you choose that is what you get. No one is really responsible to make someone else happy, no matter what most people have been taught and accept as true.

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan.

If I do this thing," he said, "it is the last I will ever do for you. Do not come begging again." "Father," I said, "I never will. I leave this place tomorrow." He would not ask where, he would not even wonder. So many years I had spent as a child sifting his bright features for his thoughts, trying to glimpse among them one that bore my name. But he was a harp with only one string, and the note it played was himself.

I did what I liked. If you had asked me, I would have said I was happy. Yet I always remembered.

I could feel his power reaching for my secrets. In the old days I would have rushed forth with a brimming cup of answers, to give him all he wanted. But I was not the same as I had been. I owed him nothing. He would have of me only what I wanted to give.

The generals take the credit, of course, and indeed they provide the gold. But they are always calling you into their tent and asking for reports of what you're doing instead of letting you go do it.

I will tell them nothing. It is not for them to say what I will do. - Achilles

Hevesli o?lum ve hiç kimse olmay? seçmi? bu adam.

Un homme heureux est trop occupé à vivre sa vie. Il croit qu'il ne doit des comptes à personne.

What will you tell them?' 'I will tell them nothing.' The answer came with no hesitation, clear and crisp. 'It is not for them to say what I will do.

So many years I had spent as a child sifting his bright features for his thoughts, trying to glimpse among them one that bore my name. But he was a harp with only one string, and the note it played was himself. "You have always been the worst of my children," he said. "Be sure to not dishonour me." "I have a better idea. I will do as I please, and when you count your children, leave me out.

He would have of me only what I wanted to give.

Poor is the man whose pleasure depends on the permission of another.

Poor is the man, whose pleasures depend on the permission of another

Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.

I'm single because I was born that way.

Everyone has the right to run his own life- even if you're heading for a crash. What I'm against is blind flying.

She said that it was dangerous to try to know somebody too well. People should have their own reserves, she said, the places they went in their minds, where no one else should follow.

The ultimate indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name.

The freedom to be happy restricts human freedom if you are not free to be not happy.

I feel high on the knowledge that I can talk as much as I want to, as quickly as I want to, in any direction that I want to, without anyone overtly rolling her eyes at me or suggesting I go to speech therapy. I'm not saying this is good pedagogy. I am saying that its pleasures are deep.

In place of an exhausting autonomy, there is the blunt admittance of dependence, and its subsequent relief. I will always aspire to contain my shit as best I can, but I am no longer interested in hiding my dependencies in an effort to appear superior to those who are more visibly undone or aching.