Quotes About Autonomy

Omnia mea mecum porto, all that is mine I carry with me.

It's not easy, that's all I can tell you. Living your own life is hard. It's easier just going along, doing what they tell you to do.

Miss Burgess Fern came up, sat in the chair beside her sister, and, after listening a moment, said, "I think the secret of Rhoda's temperament is the simple fact that she doesn't need others, the way most of us do. She is such a self-sufficient little girl! Never in all my life have I seen anybody so completely all-of-one-piece!

I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me.

I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me.

Self-awareness is probably overrated. A complex, self-regulating system doesn't need it in order to be successful, or even smart.

Freedom without structure is its own slavery.

that your are the prime driver of your life. The world is malleable enough to be shaped by you. To lead a better life you just have to work harder, or use more willpower, or make better decisions.

Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault.

I don't like begging money from producers.

Complete freedom is as much curse as boon; freedom within strict and well-defined confines is, to me, ideal.

I have no time for those who say there is no way Scotland could go it alone. I know first-hand the contribution Scotland and Scots make to Britain's success - so for me there's no question about whether Scotland could be an independent nation.

But being an addict means that you never stipulate to being an adult. You may, as the occasion requires, adopt the trade dress of a grown-up, showing responsibility and gravitas in spurts to get by, but the rest of the time, you do what you want when you want.

Freedom without responsibility? What freedom is that? None at all.

Except for little children, who must be rightfully restrained by their parents, no one should find themselves being controlled by another person.

There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.

Ultimately you, and only you, can make yourself consistently happy. No one else can.

What would you call yourself if you didn't use anyone or anything else's associations to label you?

It's in the democratic citizen's nature to be like a leaf that doesn't believe in the tree it's part of.

Freedom is our ability to make things up just for the sake of being able to do so.

Humans may not have begun their history in a state of primordial innocence, but they do appear to have begun it with a self-conscious aversion to being told what to do.

They are free people, each of whom considers himself of as much consequence as the others; and they submit to their chiefs only in so far as it pleases them.'24

One could in fact interpret this list as a subtle way of saying that the only way of "freeing oneself" from the debt was not literally repaying debts, but rather showing that these debts do not exist because one is not in fact separate to begin with, and hence that the very notion of canceling the debt and achieving a separate, autonomous existence was ridiculous from the start.

most Amazonians don't want to give others the power to threaten them with physical injury if they don't do as they are told. Maybe we should better be asking what it says about ourselves that we feel this attitude needs any sort of explanation.