Quotes about Autonomy

Please let us not interfere with the other's work or play, nor let the world see our private joys or disagreements. In this connection I may have to keep some place where I can go to be myself, now and then, for I cannot guarantee to endure at all times the confinement of even an attractive cage.

I don't want to be president, but I want to be free to decide whether or not I want to be president of this country.

What we want is to become masters in our own house.

I don't care what other people think. I don't think it matters.

But there is something to be said for having one individual who is responsible entirely for the capital commitment. And it's not WWE; it's Vince McMahon and his company, Alpha Entertainment. It's not like I have to go to a board of directors. Vince makes the decisions on what he wants to do, and that makes my life easier.

I want it to resonate: there's no rule for how to live your life. You can do things your own way.

The more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over their life.

You really can't follow a guru. You can't ask somebody to give The Reason, but you can find one for yourself; you decide what the meaning of your life is to be. People talk about the meaning of life; there is no meaning of life--there are lots of meanings of different lives, and you must decide what you want your own to be.

Art cannot be excused from following God's law, and art disgraces itself by seeking that freedom. Anything that cannot be put into an image or onto a canvas without demanding the sacrifice of modesty or injuring shame must simply be eschewed. Art is not autonomous. Art is one of the more refined human life expressions, and all these life expressions are organically related and stand continuously under God's ordinance.

Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.

Don't be dependent. At all. Ever. Period.

You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.