Quotes About Autonomy

Trust me because you want too, not because you've been told to do so.

Remind yourself that you don't have to do what everyone else is doing.

I am unique. Do not compare me with anyone because I wasn't born to be like anyone, act like anyone and think like anyone.

Don't let someone tell you how to live your damn life.

I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.

Be what you want to be and let not the views of man alter that goal of yours.

Be what you want to be not what others want you to be.

Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing.

Don't listen to other people, because their words don't define you and who you are!

Everyone should live by these words. Never change who you are for anyone - and never expect someone to change for you.

Don't let other people's opinions of you, what you say and what you do influence who you are.

Let him alone!" my father protested; "the main thing is that a man should find pleasure in his work. He is no longer a child. He knows pretty well now what he likes, it is not at all probable that he will change, and he is quite capable of deciding for himself what will make him happy in life.

Una pareja se compone de dos personas autónomas, ¡no es una amalgama única, por Dios!

Never again will I be a receptacle for my husband's trash. Another human being, because he lives with you, because he entered a certain alliance called marriage, believes he can use you as a place to put his scraps, be they his rages, his failures, his frustrations, his fears, his insecurities.

How much trouble he avoids who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

Reason and the reasoning faculty need no foreign assistance, but are sufficient for their own purposes. They move within themselves, and make directly for the point in view. Wherefore, acts in accordance with them are called right acts, for they lead along the right road.

Then isn't it better to do what's up to you - like a free man - than to be passively controlled by what isn't, like a slave or a beggar?

To change your mind and to follow him who sets you right is to be nonetheless the free agent that you were before.

The hardest thing about being a manager is realizing that your people will not do things the way that you would. But get used to it. Because if you try to force them to, then two things happen. They become resentful — they don't want to do it. And they become dependent — they can't do it. Neither of these is terribly productive for the long haul.

every time you make a rule you take away a choice and choice, with all of its illuminating repercussions, is the fuel for learning.

Let no voice but your own speak to you from the depths. Let no influence but your own raise you in time of peace and time of war. Hear all, but attend only that which concerns you.

Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.

Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

There is more than one kind of freedom... Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underrate it.