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Quotes about Autonomy

But you are not his prisoner of war, unless you choose to be. Those days can be over. That's your call.
— Craig Groeschel
Who chooses the schedules we keep? We do, I guess.
— Lisa Wingate
Living, really living, wasn't about clinging to control but about giving it away.
— Lisa Wingate
Eventually you have to stop letting people define you and start defining yourself. It's a lesson I'm both teaching and learning. Name yourself. Claim yourself. Classroom Constitution, Article Twelve.
— Lisa Wingate
Sooner or later, you have to shed your family's expectations and run the race on your own.
— Lisa Wingate
The worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do themselves.
— Abraham Lincoln
The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner.
— John Donne
Never allow a person to tell you NO who doesn't have the power to say YES.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
I'm single because I was born that way.
— Mae West
To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
— Virginia Woolf
Self worth cannot be verified by others. You are worthy because you say it is so. If you depend on others for your value it is other-worth.
— Wayne Dyer