Quotes about Autonomy
With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.
- Madeleine L'Engle
Take charge of your life or someone else will!
- John Hagee
Always a choice, even in not choosing.
- Elizabeth Musser
Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
- Ayn Rand
There is a fine line between loneliness and independence.
- George Eliot
I think sometimes if you are alone, you are freer because your time is your own.
- Aung San Suu Kyi
Our children are not extensions of ourselves. We did not create them; God did. We are here to supervise their development, not dictate their reality. They are their own beings.
- Marianne Williamson
Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat.
- Mark Twain
Through discipline comes freedom.
- Aristotle
Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules.
- Aristotle
Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient.
- Aristotle
All that is done on compulsion is bitterness to the soul.
- Aristotle