Quotes About Autonomy

My experience of being ill led me to see that our bodies may feel autonomous, but we all live in the nexus of radical interconnection. Our bodies are always in communication with other bodies: our immune system is responsive not only to collective health policies but also to the emotions and affects of others.

A good teacher always refuses to have disciples! Let everyone goes his own way, in his own path instead of following others! If the direction is correct, there will be a meeting in the same place!

A well educated man with an independent mind is a type of man liked by no government!

Carry your bag by yourself; carry your umbrella by yourself; open your door by yourself; light your own candle! Do your job by yourself! Don't use others! Don't behave like a king, don't behave like a queen! Be humble!

Give your freedom to someone or to something and then look at yourself what have you got? I tell you, you've got nothing left!

Men like the kings and the queens because men are weak! No strong man accepts any king or queen!

My faith is that I don't believe in fate! We are not puppets or zombies of destiny. We are the main painters of our life's canvas.

No man can claim to be free in real terms unless he is fully in control of his own destiny!

No one can save you, no one but your very reason! Therefore, improve your reason!

Not all the chains are bad and not all the freedoms are good!

Open the door by yourself instead of waiting the door to be opened by itself!

Our freedom is our sacred cow; no one should touch it! We must be very pious in this holy matter.

Solitude is the rebel of the freedom.

The best thing you can give to a child is to create an environment where the child can develop an independent mind so that he will be the man of no one and the instrument of no system!

To breathe, we do not only need air and lungs, but also freedom!

My mother left home in the manner that characterized everything she did: with a decision that swelled and ripened slowly and once made could be rescinded by no one. She would sit at the kitchen table with a large sheet of paper that she would divide into two columns. At the top of one she would write FOR and at the top of the other AGAINST...She made her lists, counted on her fingers, and made her decision only after tabulating and weighing.

Oh, you're one of those,' the princess said. 'One of what?' 'One of those who needs to be told their worth over and over by others. Do you know who tells me my worth, Phaedra of Alonso?' The princess pointed a hard finger at her own chest. 'Me. I determine my own worth. If I had to rely on others I'd have lain down and died waiting.

You can't think for other people. Nor can you feel for them or be them. They have to do that for themselves.

I determine my own worth. If I had to rely on others, I'd have lain down and died waiting.

You are mistaking me for someone with choices, Froi. I don't have choices.

I think it's about time to save myself

I think it's about time I saved myself

Because who they were had always been determined by him

The fact that 98 percent of women in [the U.S.] who are sexually experienced say they use birth control doesn't make sex any less sacred. It just means that they're getting to make choices about their lives.