Autonomy Quotes
Michael Bassey Johnson
If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.
1890James C. Scott
The petite bourgeoise and small property in general represent a precious zone of autonomy and freedom in state systems increasingly dominated by large public and private bureaucracies.
2131 Nicholas Tharcher
The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without: to follow one's own path, not that of the crowd.
1868 Emily Dickinson
How happy is the little stone
That rambles in the road alone,
And doesn't care about careers,
And exigencies never fears;
Whose coat of elemental brown
A passing universe put on;
And independent as the sun,
Associates or glows alone,
Fulfilling absolute decree
In casual simplicity.
1735 Jiddu Krishnamurti
Do not repeat after me words that you do not understand. Do not merely put on a mask of my ideas, for it will be an illusion and you will thereby deceive yourself.
1596 Judith Thurman
And that may be [Helen Gurley] Brown’s most enlightened lesson: that sexual autonomy and fulfillment are inseparable from the autonomy and fulfillment that a woman gets from her career.
3529 Zeena Schreck
Nostalgia is an illness
for those who haven't realized
that today
is tomorrow's nostalgia.
1772 Zeena Schreck
In order to understand why one chooses to be a Tantric practitioner, there has to be an understanding of cause and effect, cyclic existence, the awareness that the reality that we think we are seeing is not reality as it really truly is. So enlightenment is seeing reality with bare awareness, non-conceptual reality.
3117 Zeena Schreck
A unifying factor between the different traditions and lineages of Tantra, is that it is feminine in nature. It acknowledges the feminine as the basis from which all the practices spring. Therefore, Tantra is by its nature, the understanding that all phenomenal existence, the universe, or cosmos, that we experience is feminine in nature.
2223 Zeena Schreck
There are Tantrics who deliberately break taboos and social norms and then there are other Tantrics who, by means of their practices and the way that they practice, that to society in general, it may have the appearance of breaking social norms but in fact that is just the manifestation of the progress of their practice.
1184 Heide Schönemann
With an evermore increase of industrialisation machine stops being merely a tool, develops a life of its own and imposes its rhythm onto human. Operating it he moves mechanically, becomes part of the machine.
3491 Gabrielle Roth
If you just set people in motion they'll heal themselves.
1392 Daniel H. Pink
Control leads to compliance; autonomy leads to engagement.
3427 Fulton J. Sheen
If, in his pride, he considers God as a challenge, he will deny Him; and if God becomes man and therefore makes Himself vulnerable, he will crucify Him.
3121 Tracy Anne Warren
To give herself a measure of credible autonomy, she had decided to invent a husband. Then, in a subsequent flash of inspiration, she had just as quickly killed him off.
2026 Angela Phillips
It is not commercial success but originality and proof of autonomy which are admired.
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