Quotes About Autonomy

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them, if they will not apply themselves to me.

The finest thing in the world is knowing how to belong to oneself.

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.

The greatest thing in the world is for a man to know how to be himself.

Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.

From the idea that the self is not given to us, I think there is only one practical consequence: we have to create ourselves as a work of art.

Una pareja es un mundo, un mundo autónomo y cerrado que se desplaza dentro de un mundo más vasto, sin verse realmente afectado; solitario, en cambio, estaba surcado por fallas y requerí cierto coraje para, guardándome la hoja con las informaciones en un bolsillo de la chaqueta, salir a visitar el pueblo.

Obviously they had no autonomy, but as they say in English, fuck autonomy.

Un couple est un monde, un monde autonome et clos qui se déplace au milieu d'un monde plus vaste, sans en être réellement atteint ; solitaire

Anyone who follows others never passes them by, and anyone who does not know how to do good works on his own cannot make good use of works by others.

deep inside each one of us is the desire to write and control our own script of life.

Freedom without the means to be self-supporting is a one-armed triumph.

away is hard to go, but no one asked me to stay

she refused to leave anything to someone else that she could do better herself.

We can help pave the roads of those around us, but we can't choose their direction.

You will never have to marry for money. You will never have to depend on anyne but yourself.

We can help pave the roads of those around us, but we can't chose their direction.

we can't control what other people do,

It was an empowering thing, she thought, to be able to pick and choose what and whom she allowed in her life.

You can't make no full-grown man do nothin', even if what you tellin' him is right.

People in Oklahoma don't wake up every morning wondering what the government is going to do for them.

Maybe I dance to a different drum, but I get the job done well. I need to be accommodated, not managed.

Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.

Aquel hombre no podía ser de su mujer, porque no era de sí mismo, dueño de sí, sino a la vez un enajenado y un poseído.