Quotes About Autonomy

One is responsible for one's own life. Passivity provides no protection.

Don't take my advice. Or anyone's advice. Trust yourself. For good or for bad, happy or unhappy, it's your life, and what you do with it has always been entirely up to you.

I wanted to be an independent woman, a woman who could pay for her bills, a woman who could run her own life - and I became that woman.

The greatest tragedy is to live out someone else's life thinking it was your own.

We all create the person we become by our choices as we go through life. In a real sense, by the time we are adults, we are the sum total of the choices we have made.

To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.

I think you can find yourself in life perhaps not really being the master of your own life and it is within your own will and tenacity whether you switch the roles or not.

Do not take the agenda that someone else has mapped out for your life.

My life is proof that I don't need you to do what I do. If there's no one to see it, I'll watch it.

The only person who is going to give you security and the life you want is you.

I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered !My life is my own.

What's the point of prolonging your life if you don't enjoy it? It's your body. Do whatever you want with it. Better to wear out than rust over.

The good life is best construed as a matrix that includes happiness, occasional sadness, a sense of purpose, playfulness, and psychological flexibility, as well autonomy, mastery, and belonging.

If you own this story you get to write the ending.

Life is yours, do not let life's problems have other influences on what you believe. See for yourself.

My personal life and my artistic life do not interfere with each other.

I came here to say that I do not recognize anyone's right to one minute of my life.

If you can't control your reproduction, you can't control your life.

You can be the lead in your own life.

Liberty is the breath of life to nations.

We tend to disempower ourselves. We tend to believe that we don't matter. And in the act of taking that idea to ourselves we give everything away to somebody else, to something else.

You can at any time decide to alter the course of your life; no one can take that away.

NO, I will not accept straight edge into my life!

For me, I don't like it when there is too much interference in our lives. We're not children. It is our own life in our hands.