Quotes about Autonomy

As Henry Ford II said, "Never complain, never explain." No one makes you do anything or feel anything. You are where you are and what you are because you have decided to be there. Everything that you are or ever will be is entirely up to you. If there is any effect in your life that you're not happy about, it is solely up to you to change the causes. You are completely responsible.

You are a "choosing organism." You are constantly making choices, one way or the other. Every choice you make is a statement about your true values and priorities. At each moment, you choose what is more important or of higher value to you over what is less important or of lesser value.

I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.

For true love to be there, you need to feel complete in yourself, not needing something from outside.

I don't like to give advice. I like to give people information because everyone's life is different, and everyone's journey is different.

The freedom of the man of God has nothing to do with autonomy and does not stand opposed to submission to God.

The Bible clearly says we shouldn't feel forced to marry or feel prohibited from marrying; this is one of those life decisions God leaves up to us.

Whoever is not in the possession of leisure can hardly be said to possess independence.

When you force a man to act against his own choice and judgment, it's his thinking that you want him to suspend.

There's a hunger and a fervor that I have, but there's no person I'm going to push to the side to get where I'm going. I want to create my own road.

God could have created us to be automatons who were always choosing the right side, making the right decision. It is an incredible thing, God said "I want persons" who therefore have freedom.

True Wealth is being able to do what I want, when I want. If I can do that, I am wealthy.