Quotes about Autonomy

What happens at 50, more or less, you lose what you need to create another person, to sustain another person; you keep what you need to sustain yourself. And there's something wonderful about that.

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.

If the mystery of the Trinity is the template of all reality, what we have in the Trinitarian God is the perfect balance between union and differentiation, autonomy and mutuality, identity and community.

The world is more magical, less predictable, more autonomous, less controllable, more varied, less simple, more infinite, less knowable, more wonderfully troubling than we could have imagined being able to tolerate when we were young. —JAMES HOLLIS, FINDING MEANING IN THE SECOND HALF OF LIFE

It's absolutely crucial that we come face to face with the power of our choices.

Extreme independence is as destructive to a relationship as total dependence.

Liberty, in so far as it is of any value, always means self-control in both the senses of that term: in the sense that we are only controlled by ourselves, and also in the sense that by ourselves we are controlled, and that every part of our nature is subservient to the purpose to which our whole nature is given.

In ourselves our safety must be sought. By our own right hand it must be wrought.

Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give.

Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them to get on with it… Look for people who will aim for the remarkable, who will not settle for the routine.

No man is free until he s a master of himself!!

Behave like men, and not like witless sheep...