Augusten Burroughs Quotes

The way I look at it, I'd rather make my own mistakes than have people make them for me.

If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us.

Independence doesn't mean you decide the way you want.

Freedom is control in your own life. I have more control now than in the past, and I'm learning the value of saying no. That's very important.

I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.

Making an independent film is so great because you're your boss. And you have to be disciplined. You know? Because there's nobody telling you anything. But you have to kinda, you know, if you have an instinct to do something, you do it. There's nobody to run it by.

Behind real freedom, there lies discipline.

Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've learned the rules.

I don't need adult supervision.

I've learned over the years that freedom is just the other side of discipline.

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

Freedom comes with a lot of responsibility. When you are by yourself, you have to develop a third eye.

Freedom is not the absence of obligation or restraint, but the freedom of movement within healthy, chosen parameters.

I'm completely in charge of my own life now. Sometimes there's no one there to slap me on the hand and say: 'Stop being so bullish and bossy,' and things like that.

Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.

The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

I'm not sure there are a lot of things I'd want a manager for. I suppose I feel that at least the decisions I make are coming from me, and I'm not put into a situation that I wouldn't want to be in.

I didn't want to start relying on what someone else thought was right. It was easier to go away all together.

In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

Men are not free when they are doing just what they like. The moment you can do just what you like, there is nothing you care about doing.

I'd much rather have the freedom, and the obligation to use it responsibly, than be put in a box.

I'm not a team player. I'm used to having total control over everything I do.

I would really want to teach someone how to function without having to have plays called for you.