Quotes About Autonomy

Más tarde, ella me dijo que no le importaba lo que pensara nadie, excepto yo.

Our children are naturally self-sovereigns until the day they come under the rule of Jesus. We are all in need of grace to put an end to our dangerous hope for autonomy.

Allowing others to decide for us does not guarantee a better decision but almost always guarantees a fuller regret, and regret is a poison I wish on no one.

Our actions are not simply links in a closed chain of causally connected physical events. We have the capacity to be first causes, starting a new chain of cause and effect.

Modern woman have discovered that living through another's reflection is simply not human enough.

Epictetus famously opens the Encheiridion this way: "Some things in the world are up to us, while others are not. Up to us are our faculties of judgment, motivation, desire, and aversion—in short, everything that is our own doing. Not up to us are our body and property, our reputations, and our official positions—in short, everything that is not our own doing.

If you want anything good, get it from yourself," Epictetus

Where's your self-respect? Why don't you get yourself in control? Life cannot hang on the love of one other person; you have got to hang your life on yourself.

And all we have, in the end, are the choices we make.

What is freedom, in the end, but that no one cares any longer to try to restrain us?

I began to appreciate what money can provide: a waterproof imperviousness to the demands of others.

The knowledge is as good as freedom.

But that wasn't my business. Esti was a grown woman,

The most precious thing every human being has in this life is the freedom to choose how to live.

You won't take anything from me that I don't want to give you, Dalton. And that's a fact.

What are other women really thinking, feeling, experiencing, when they slip away from the gaze and culture of men?

The conscience is the sacred haven of the liberty of man.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

Missing a train is only painful if you run after it! Likewise, not matching the idea of success others expect from you is only painful if that's what you are seeking.

Believe me, the drug of freedom is universally potent.

You don't need cry for others its worthless.

Everything else can be taken from you, but this power to choose what you think, what you remember, and what you believe about yourself is untouchable.

S.I.N.G.L.E Sometimes. I'll. Never. Go. Looking. Either.

A man don't always have to eat what he's standing life. If he wants, a man can fix a meal of his own choosing.