Quotes About Autonomy

You either learn your way towards writing your own script in life, or you unwittingly become an actor in someone else's script.

'Taking charge of one's life' involves risk, because it means confronting a diversity of open possibilities.

I was born alone and I will die alone. I've got to do what's right for me and not live my life the way anybody else wants it.

You define your own life. Don't let other people write your script.

I want every fan of Rand to hear [Polaha] say the classic Galt phrase: "I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

But I am not those people. I am just the biologist; I don't require any of this to have a deeper meaning.

I loved him, but I didn't need him, and I thought that was the way it was supposed to be.

This part I will do alone, leaving you behind. Don't follow. I'm well beyond you now, and traveling very fast.

All we ask is to be left alone.

Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond.

Moreover, as we have already seen, the truth claims of the Bible are not rejected because the gospel is rationally incoherent or unsupported by historical evidence. Rather, the truth is rejected because the unchanged heart remains in love with the false notion of its own moral self-righteousness and/or intellectual autonomy.

You feel like all you can get is what other people deign to give you. You don't go after what you want.

I live my own life and nurse my own wounds. It's not the best way to live. But it's the way I am.

Why anarchy? Because anything less would be uncivilized.

People who can't imagine order without imposition always end up favoring power over liberty.

Freedom is the foundation for all wonderful things in life.

The cost of government control is human liberty, prosperity, and dignity.

My main measure of success is that nobody owns me.

Sometimes you have to control your own life and to do that you have to put your own needs first.

Let this be a lesson, child. Don't ever let a man dim your light. In this world, you can't count on anyone but yourself.

You need to take control of your own destiny.

Too much togetherness is never good. You have to stand on your own two feet.

No one should decide your future for you but you. If you don't like where your life is headed, change it.

I'm not going to wait for Father to find Olivina. I'm going to do it myself.