Quotes about Autonomy

As long we insist on writing our own stories, he cannot write his living will onto our hearts.

What the Father gives is the capacity to be a self, freedom, and thus autonomy, but an autonomy which can be understood only as a surrender of self to the other.

We can do our best to change people, to summon them to be whom they are capable of being, but ultimately they only people we will always have the power to change will be ourselves.

Do I tell you how to braid your hair? Don't tell me how to plow a field.

Powerful people do not try to control other people. They know it doesn't work, and that it's not their job. Their job is to control themselves.

You have been given your own work to do. Get to it right now, do your best at it, and don't be concerned with who is watching you. Create your own merit.

A lot of jobs don't allow you to be who you are. There is dignity in work only when it is work freely accepted.

The one small garden of a free gardener was all his need and due, not a garden swollen to a realm; his own hands to use, not the hands of others to command.

Everything what's inspiring has been created by one who could work in freedom

There is only one condition in which we can imagine managers not needing subordinates, and masters not needing slaves. This condition would be that each (inanimate) instrument could do its own work.

If you live your life by what others say, it stops being your life.

I work for ABC. If the thing that ABC is paying me for is storytelling - not to make sure that a costume is exactly right or all those other things - then it is up to me to find the most creative space possible so that that function of my job can happen.