Quotes About Autonomy

The only problem with unrestricted choice, however, is that it tends not to lie so far from outright chaos.

The power you give others belongs to you. Take it back and take yourself where you would go.

self-mastery is the goal of life, and controlling, bullying, or needing to fix others is a distraction from our true purpose.

We are all smart enough to do what we value doing. We find the time, money, and means to achieve what is important to us. We are not motivated to do the things that other people tell us we should do or we should want to do.

Much easier it was to follow orders than to think for oneself.

Despite the difference in size between the girl and her assailants, it was looking as if she was not in need of any outside assistance.

I know how to run without you holding my hand!

each act is an island in time, to be judged on its own.

Who imprisoned me here? Who keeps me here? Who can release me? Who's controlling and constraining my life except...me?

The roots of the word 'anarchy' are 'an archos,' 'no leaders,' which is not really about the kind of chaos that most people imagine when the word 'anarchy' is mentioned. I think that anarchy is, to the contrary, about taking personal responsibility for yourself.

In this world, you shouldn't rely on help from anybody. In the end, a man stands alone.

That's two years of me living for someone else. How sad is that?

Not the king of anyone else. I call my self a King because indeed I am a King of I myself only. -DeShawn Yeldell / MillYentei

Depend on no one else to give you what you want

There is no one but ourselves to blame for our problems: neither God nor any oppressors.

Anything goes as one fends for oneself.

I think people like to think I'm in some way financially dependent on my family - on my dad - but the fact of the matter is I've been emancipated from my father since I was 14 years old. That's something people don't know or understand.

I never really saw my dad around when the Iron Maiden and the AC/DC were playing. But he knew what I was doing. I was just absorbing music. So he just kind of left me to my own devices.

My two valuable lessons are: avoid romanticism and abhor possessiveness.

Just because your friend does it, doesn't mean you have to. Be a leader, not a follower.

If you can stand on your own, it's better that you walk back rather than making someone from the fleet take you." Elliot rose, then swallowed the bile she tasted in her throat. "I have stood on my own for many years." He didn't look away this time, and his eyes were like a stranger's. "You're not the only one.

Don't call the doctor, don't call ya mamma, don't call the preacher; no, I don't need it.

There's only one very good life and that's the life you know you want and you make it yourself.

You must admit I have a right to live in a pigsty if I want.