“It takes a great personal audacity to question the status quo, to take exception to it, to redefine it, and, ultimately, decide for your Self what “normal” is going to be. But guess what? That autonomy to choose your own circumstances is your birthright.”
Source: You Are Not Stuck: How Soul-Guided Choices Transform Fear into Freedom
“Children need a little space to test out their autonomy when on the top of the Circle, but they still need to know we’re nearby and available as needed.”
Source: Raising a Secure Child: How Circle of Security Parenting Can Help You Nurture Your Child's Attachment, Emotional Resilience, and Freedom to Explore
“We do what we've always done. We pretend to be what they want us to be and do what we want whenever they're not looking.”
Source: Boy at the Window
“Neutrality always swallows all things mighty. The path of least resistance ensures all forks in the road are made comfortable descents into a mediocre valley of oblivion, an oblivion where nothing of note happens, where the audacity of uncomfortable choice is checked by the rank vanilla stank of stagnant stasis. In God's heaven, taking a hard stance is the heinous act of a heretic. Abandon all autonomy ye who enter here. Days of remembrance are reserved only for those who take a stand.”
Source: The Swarm
“What do you want?' can be a surprisingly confusing or painful question if no one ever asked you that and really cared about your answer.”
Source: Notes From Your Therapist
“The migrant chain that connected Africa to America was seemingly endless, however, and its length was due primarily to the market. Africans made to ‘buy more’ Africans were thus compelled to be the agents of their own exploitation by an economic system that consumed the very lives of slaves. At stake for Africans was whether an American generation of African lineage would emerge and, more important still, also whether that generation could sustain itself by the fruit of its social networks, rather than by its labor, as bought and sold on the market.”
Source: Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora
“If freedom, flexibility, and autonomy do not create chaos in a fast-paced basketball game, what stops us from adapting the same in the business world?”
Source: Quantraz
“In this group of issues related to fair play, we consider whether we are putting data subjects in a position that undermines their autonomy or authority about how their personal information is used.”
Source: Practical Fairness: Achieving Fair and Secure Data Models
“Even if you cage his flesh and forbid him to utter his thoughts, even to cutting out his tongue, you cannot still a man's soul.”
Source: Ship of Magic
“You are never truly autonomous until you learn when and who to ask for help.”