Quotes About Autonomy

No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.

I am a strong woman with or without this other person, with or without this job, and with or without these tight pants.

The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.

Development of character consists solely in moving towards self-sufficiency.

I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.

The... patient should be made to understand that he or she must take charge of his own life. Don't take your body to the doctor as if he were a repair shop.

Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do.

I am the only guinea pig I have.

The man who follows a crowd will never be followed by a crowd.

The thoughts of all men arise from the darkness. If you are the movement of your soul, and the cause of that movement precedes you, then how could you ever call your thoughts your own? How could you be anything other than a slave to the darkness that comes before?

The world has long ceased to be the author of your anguish.

I am perfectly well and happy here.... All I want is to be left alone to live my life as I wish and not as other people think best for themselves.

I'm sorry... but it's true?you can't live other people's lives for them. Go home and make something worth while of your own.

she covered her ears with her hands, for fear that old custom of obeying other people's plans for her should prevail yet again.

indolence, sloth rejects the burden of order, choosing instead the breezy lightness of freedom. Loving self more than relation, and autonomy more than the good, in sloth one rejects the weight and density of living in an ordered creation.

Jewels can be replaced, cousin. Independence, once lost, cannot.

then he offers me his arm. As I take it, I wonder what folly decreed that women cannot walk unassisted.

according to Chanakya, being dependent on someone is most painful. Such a person can be compared to an animal. He has to act on someone elses orders. So, man should live life with strength.

being dependent on someone is most painful. Such a person can be compared to an animal. He has to act on someone elses orders. So, man should live life with strength.

I try to live without interfering in the lives of others because I have no wish for them to interfere in mine.

How can she tell the difference between freedom and unburdening?

If no one responds to your call, then go your own way alone.

I want to protect each person's boundaries. Once you begin to yield the slightest ground on some pretext, you're ultimately left with nothing.

their power till they are not only reasonably free from the tyranny of Nature and human neighbours, but have