Quotes About Autonomy

No matter what happens to our bodies in our lifetimes..., they remain ours.

Sara Ahmed Happiness is no protection, and certainly it is not a responsibility. The freedom to be happy restricts human freedom if you are not free to be not happy. But one can make of either freedom a habit, and only you know which you've chosen.

The time for blithely asserting that sleeping with whomever you want however you want is going to jam its machinery is long past.

I have never found it difficult to abandon a group , to go against the alpha male or female. I have never much cared for gangs, for social tribes , for fitting in. I have known since I was very young that the in-crowd isin't my crowd;they are not my people.

Never chase a man, her mother had told her. No good will come of it.

She sees the girl, Iris, sitting with her legs crossed at the table, and it strikes Esme as odd that she herself had been sitting there too, just a moment ago. She sees the chair that had been hers—that is still hers. It is angled away from the table and there is her plate, with the half-eaten potato. Amazing how easy it is to get up and walk away from a table, from a plate of food, how no one stops you, how it wouldn't occur to anyone here that they could stop you.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

Change yourself – you are in control."

Rather free than rich

Whether or not Yuki-san needs you, whether or not he needs Seguchi-san, or whether he needs anybody at all only he can say. And you won't know unless you ask.

Those three things - autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward - are, most people will agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying.

There's nothing in this world more instinctively abhorrent to me than finding myself in agreement with my fellow-humans.

There's nothing is this world more instinctively abhorrent to me than finding myself in agreement with my fellow-humans.

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

Jude's rule number five: Never get to close to anyone or anything that you can't walk away at a moment's notice if you have to. When you have to.

This world is full of sheeple, not people, all longing to be told what to do, how to think. Sheeple who are lost without someone to follow. And you know the best part? Even when most of them know they're being led over a cliff, they'll still follow because it's less effort than thinking for themselves. It's the human condition.

Depend not on another, rather lean Upon thyself; trust to thine own exertions: Subjection to another?s will gives pain; True happiness consists in self-reliance.

Era, encara que no ho semblés, molt més llest que jo, perquè sempre són més llestos aquells que estan disposats a prescindir del nostre consentiment.

O què t'estimaries més quedar-te soltera? Potser sí que ho hauria preferit. I si un dia necessitava un home... doncs bé, el podria haver sense donar-li cap dret sobre la seva vida.

You are being manipulated when someone reduces, by any means, your ability to be your own judge of what you do.

Each of us is ultimately responsible for our own psychological well-being, happiness, and success in life. As much as we might wish good things for one another, we really do not have the ability to create mental stability, well-being, or happiness for someone else.

If you do not recognize your assertive right to choose to be responsible only for yourself, other people can and will manipulate you into doing what they want by presenting their own problems to you as if they were your problems.

My favorite summary of the concept of defining your own responsibility for the problems of others was given in a joke, current several years ago. After being surrounded by 10,000 hostile Indians, the Lone Ranger turned to Tonto and remarked, "I guess this is it, Kimo Sabe. It looks like we have had it," whereupon Tonto, surveying the impending disaster, turned and replied, "What do you mean we, white man?

The right to be the final judge of yourself is the prime assertive right which allows no one to manipulate you. It is the assertive right from which your other assertive rights are derived. Your other assertive rights are only more specific everyday applications of this prime right.