Quotes About Autonomy

One of the most dangerous delusions for each of us is the delusion of our own sovereignty. And one of our most dangerous idols is the idol of control.

Physical suffering exposes the delusion of personal autonomy and self-sufficiency

Autonomous Christianity never works, because our spiritual life was designed by God to be a community project.

Rebellion is the inborn tendency to give in to the lies of autonomy, self-sufficiency, and self-focus. It results

Jack asked himself: Would he have wanted to live out his life as a placid, contented, lobotomized Ferdinand the Bull? No. Then, what right did he have to inflict such a fate on anybody?

If a woman does marry, I suggest she has her own bed.

The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education.

Do what you like, so long as it is intelligent.

It's pointless to blame someone for being themselves and looking to their own interests.

Nemá smysl zlobit se na n?koho za to, že je sám sebou a stará se o vlastní zájmy.

Por isso é muito melhor não ter amigos, desde que se tenha força de carácter suficiente para passar sem eles. No fim, os amigos acabam sempre por revelar-se um incómodo de uma maneira ou de outra. Mas, se tens de os ter, então deixa-os em paz e aceita que cada um tem o direito de existir de acordo com o seu próprio carácter, seja ele qual for.

Forty-eight, okay? I don't put my teeth in a jar and I still drive at night.

A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle

Time to set forth alone and find out what sort of man I was, instead of being a mirror to somebody else. Swearing a blood oath, even as I clung to this ghost embrace, that I would never hold another man who wouldn't hold me back.

You just can't endlessly be together.' It's a disaster, no matter who you are.

I don't live with people, that's why my relationships last. I'm not romantic. Even when I was a teenager if somebody asked if they could hold my hand I'd say, - no, it's not heavy, I can hold it myself, thank you'.

Without emotional independence, I can't have emotional sobriety.

I agree with everything he said about emotional independence which he listed as his most important item.

Why should my happiness depend on the thoughts going on in someone else's head?

only as much power over us as we willingly give him or her.

This requires a great deal of emotional independence.

Who or what makes you happy or sad, confident or fearful, up-beat or worried? Do you choose your feelings, or does some other person or situation make you feel the way you feel?

What would your life be like if you had the courage and wisdom to take charge? What if you made up your mind that from now on for the rest of your life, you alone would decide how you were going to feel? What kind of emotional life would you choose for yourself?

An otherwise really sharp lady, it never occurred to her that she had the power to alter her life—by simply choosing to do so.