Quotes about Autonomy

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.

The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

... Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his own accord.

I never hitched my wagon to anyone, so what I achieved over the years was done with only my results on the field.

It's been a process of evolving within a family company to get the autonomy I now have from a boss like my father. If you're sitting there waiting for a pat on the back, you're going to be waiting a long time.

I like waking up in the morning and thinking, 'Mmm, I might go to Paris today.' I don't want to ask anyone if they want to come with me or mind me going. I like being my own agent. I have my grandsons and son. If I didn't have them, it would be different.

I've learned that usually, the less I know about other people, the better off I am.

Only those who want everything done for them are bored.