Quotes About Autonomy

You choose the life you want for yourself, and then you just shut up and go about it. That's how I've lived my life.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

Your life is in your hands, to make of it what you choose.

The more you try to control something, the more it controls you. Free yourself, and let things take their own natural course.

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.

I will begin with this confession: whatever I have done in the course of my life, whether it be good or evil, has been done freely; I am a free agent.

I'm just living my life, and I'm not gonna live my life for other people.

There are real indignities and real problems when all facets of life are controlled –when to get up, to eat, to shower-and chemicals are put inside our bodies against our will.

If you spend your life trying to please people or letting them control you, you may make them happy, but you'll miss your destiny.

One's right to life, liberty, and property depends on the outcome of no election.

The only person who is with us our entire life, is ourselves.

No one else has an investment in your personal life as you do.

I'm just going to live my life and be who I am.

I'm going to live my life. It's nobody else's decision, but mine. I think there are a lot worse things I could be doing with my life than what I choose to do.

If you believe in living a respectable life, you believe in self-help which is the best help!

You are the only one who has to live your life.

I like to control my own personal life.

It is imperative to base your life on yourself, to take responsibility for your own happiness.

I think those who have a terminal illness and are in great pain should have the right to choose to end their own life, and those that help them should be free from prosecution.

Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.

Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated person.

You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go.

You are not an extra in somebody else's film. You are the star in your own life.

Everyone has the right to run his own life- even if you're heading for a crash. What I'm against is blind flying.