Quotes About Autonomy

Ik had bijna gevraagd of jullie een beetje op Bel willen passen, maar ik weet dat zij heel goed voor zichzelf kan zorgen. - Charlie

Even while attaching, our toddlers are motivated by an internal clock that drives them to become more independent and autonomous! A challenge under the best of circumstance, adopted toddlers need special help finding appropriate declarations of independence. We have to surround our children with love that claims, but doesn't repress appropriate development.

Disdain for authority is the bedrock of my character.

I did not want to impose my will on others. I wanted the healing processes to grow out of the patient's own personality, not from suggestions by me that would have only a passing effect. My aim was to protect and preserve my patient's dignity and freedom, so that he could live his life according to his own wishes.

It made perfect sense to me. My whole life I'd gone along with somebody else's plans. Not wanting to rock the boat and put myself first. After all, most of the time I didn't know what my own plans were. But the need for my own dream was screaming to get out of me.

We are the hero of our own story.

You have to live without love, learn not to need it in order to live with it.

Mind you, after a time freedom can be a lonesome thing

the critical factor in motivation is not measurement,8 but empowerment: moving decisions to the lowest possible level in an organization while developing the capacity of those people to make decisions wisely.

empowerment: moving decisions to the lowest possible level in an organization while developing the capacity of those people to make decisions wisely.

A mature organization focuses on learning effectively and empowers the people who do the work to make decisions.

Money buys many things... The best of which is freedom.

One exercises to be a whole man, not a creature bred like a plough-ox to do one thing.

Unless I am allowed to tell the story of my life in my own way, I cannot tell it at all.

Ultimately we want the children to catch their growing intensity themselves, to rely on their inner control rather than our control. By giving them the words, we can expect that by the time they are three and a half or four years of age, we will be hearing things like: "Mom, I'm starting to bounce off the walls, help me." Or, "Dad, I'm really revved up." Or, "I'm having a very hard morning.

It's none of my business what other people think of me.

If you are wise, you will never forget that your heart is yours alone. It can be the greatest gift, but never can it be commanded.

My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as if they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable to stand alone.

I do not wish them to have power over men, but over themselves.

I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.

If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?

Of women I do not wish them to have power over men but over themselves.

When we believe ourselves to be alone, we have no responsibility to this world and are answerable to no one.

So much of a child's life is lived for others. . . . All the reading I did as a child, behind closed doors, sitting on the bed while the darkness fell around me, was an act of reclamation. This and only this I did for myself. This was the way to make my life my own.