AUTONOMOUS
Definitions: (1) undertaken or carried on without outside control; self-contained; self-guided; self-taught; (2) independent; self-governing; self-ruling; (3) acting in accordance with one’s moral duty rather than one’s desires; self-starter
Derivation: Greek, “having its own laws”
Quotes: Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision. — Denis E. Waitley (1933-2025) American motivational speaker
Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace. — Vaclav Havel (1936-2011) Czech poet and politician; last President of Czechoslovakia & First President of the Czech Republic
SOCIABLE
Definition: inclined to friendly communication; open to conversing; neighborly; agreeable to a free exchange of ideas
Balancing Quality: Attentive
Note: The best communicator is the person who is the best listener; one who is genuinely interested in the views and lives of others.
Compatible Quality: gracious, humorous
Familial Quality: companionable
Too Far: garrulous, nosy
Quotes: We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable. — John Hoyer Updike (1932-2009) American novelist
It turns out that people who are more socially connected to family, to friends, to community, are happier, they’re physically healthier, and they live longer than people who are less well connected. — Robert J. Waldinger (1951-) American psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, & Zen priest