Quotes About Autonomy

Clean up your own mess. Your mama don't live here

And though you understand the pecking order and respect the judge—and even if the judge says "Great argument, Counselor Kaling, the court concurs"—you also just want to not have to plead your case all the time. I wanted to be the judge, jury, and executive producer. (See what I did there?)

If you don't see a clear path for what you want, sometimes you have to make it yourself.

Sometimes you will meet idiots who are technically adults and authority figures. You don't have to do what they say. You can calmly say, 'Can I first call my mom and ask if I have to do this, please?

I'm not blaming my mom for my life because I am responsible for me, and nobody can change me or ruin me easier than I can.

The transmission was done. I was free. The dance was mine.

I was thoroughly fed up with the system. I had followed the rules for all these years, but there was no way I could stay in the system and do what I wanted to do. The whole reason why the organization of Gion Kobu had been systematized in the first place was to ensure the dignity and financial independence of the women who worked there. Yet the strictures of the Inoue School kept us subservient to its authority. There was no room for any sort of autonomy.

The freedom to choose and to change belongs to us.

What facets of your personality are encumbrances? What personal aspects prevent you from being independent? These are the areas that will define your self-cultivation, for you must strive to stand alone.

Reject labels. Reject identities. Reject conformity. Reject convention. Reject definitions. Reject names.

Soy yo misma y mis energías son mías.

Like a rich person, I live with a full-time servant who keeps everything in order—and because the servant is me, there's no invasion of privacy.

Ali jaha? mora da znade kamo ho?e! To je ono! Jer onda konj vodi, ako jaha? ne drži uzde. Jao jaha?u koga konj vodi! A vas konj vodi, moja gospodo. Vaš konj ide kamo ho?e!

?ovjek od sebe stvori ?ovjeka, a da ne bude tu?a spužva.

Sometimes when my mom finds a fun article and really wants me to read it, I will. But I prefer to just kind of focus on what I want to do and not really what other people are saying, because I don't want that to affect me too much.

No enterprise, small or large, public or private, can remain self-governing, let alone successful, so deeply in hock to others as we are about to be.

All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty. That they retain the capacity for self-government. That, addressed as free-born, autonomous men and women of God-given dignity, they will rise yet again to drive back a mortal enemy.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.

Readers don't work for writers. They work for themselves.

I do have the freedom to choose what I want to do and I'll continue to do that.

When people are more numerous and living fuller lives, they become more difficult to regiment and control.

The key is this: When people are more numerous and living fuller lives, they become more difficult to regiment and control.

La clave es esta: cuando las personas son más numerosas y viven vidas más plenas, se vuelven más difíciles de regular, dominar y controlar.