Quotes about Autonomy

God made them that way but He did not make you that way. He made you different. It's up to you to set the boundaries.

If you're sitting around waiting on somebody to save you, to fix you, to even help you, you are wasting your time because only you have the power to take responsibility to move your life forward.

Every child has to raise itself.' Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction.

Every child has to raise itself." Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction. Ultimately, people shape their own characters.

At the same time, the truth is that we are beloved, even in our current condition, by someone; we have loved and been loved. We have also known the abyss of love lost to death or rejection, and that it somehow leads to new life. We have been redeemed and saved by love, even as a few times we have been nearly destroyed, and worse, seen our children nearly destroyed. We are who we love, we are one, and we are autonomous.

Learning is not done to you, it is something you choose to do.

Fear of living without a map is the main reason people are so insistent that we tell them what to do.

I'm intensely anxious to preserve the freedom that gives you the right to think and to act and to talk as you please. That I think is essential to happiness and the life of the people.

No one runs your life unless you let them. And you have more power than you think.

Life is to be lived, not controlled.

No man is obliged to do as much as he can do. A man is to have part of his life to himself.

Don't allow the unrealistic demands of others to march freely into your life.