Quotes about Autonomy

And the way to be free is to let go of anything that is not within your control.

Where are you going to find serenity and independence — in something free, or something enslaved?

When someone is properly grounded in life, they shouldn't have to look outside themselves for approval.

Free is the person who lives as he wishes - And cannot be coerced, impeded, or compelled, whose impulses cannot be thwarted, who always gets what he desires, and never has to experience what he would rather avoid.

Please let us not interfere with the other's work or play, nor let the world see our private joys or disagreements. In this connection I may have to keep some place where I can go to be myself, now and then, for I cannot guarantee to endure at all times the confinement of even an attractive cage.

The more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over their life.

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.