Quotes about Autonomy
The last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
— Viktor E. Frankl
never permit the patient to pass to the doctor the responsibility of judging.
— Viktor E. Frankl
Frank! would have argued that we are never left with nothing as long as we retain the freedom to choose how we will respond.
— Viktor E. Frankl
man is ultimately self-determining. Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become in the next moment.
— Viktor E. Frankl
Ultimately, man is not subject to the conditions that confront him; rather, these conditions are subject to his decision.
— Viktor E. Frankl
Well, I really don't advise a woman who wants to have things her own way to get married.
— Virginia Woolf
You are you. That is what consoles me for the lack of many things.
— Virginia Woolf
He went on saying No to her, on principle, for he never yielded to a woman on account of her sex.
— Virginia Woolf
Yes, but I still resent the usual order. I will not let myself be made yet to accept the sequence of things. I will walk; I will not change the rhythm of my mind by stopping, by looking; I will walk.
— Virginia Woolf
I wear the chain I forged in life....I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.
— Charles Dickens
I am self-contained and self-reliant; your opinion is nothing to me; I have no interest in you, care nothing for you, and see and hear you with indifference.
— Charles Dickens
We must be our own, before we can be another's.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson