Quotes About Autonomy

Children are potentially free and their life directly embodies nothing save potential freedom. Consequently they are not things and cannot be the property either of their parents or others.

A secure individual...knows that the responsibility for anything concerning his life remains with himself-and he accepts that responsibility.

Saying "yes" doesn't mean I don't know how to say no, and saying "please" doesn't mean I am waiting for permission.

The deeper I get into my life as a musician, I'm discovering that it becomes less and less about other people, and more about what I want to do. And that's a good place to be.

I've been myself my whole life.

Your life is yours to live, no matter how you choose to live it. When you do not think about how you intend to live it, it lives you. When you occupy it, step into it consciously, you live it.

As far as I am concerned I would rather spend the rest of my life in prison than marry again.

Everybody does not have to like you. That is not their job. Liking you is not anyone's purpose in life except yours.

But the whole point of liberation is that you get out. Restructure your life. Act by yourself.

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.

Along with filters on computers and a lock on affections, remember that the only real control in life is self-control.

I want my personal life to be personal... And I don't care if you're talking about things that are true, you're still talking about my personal life.

I want to walk through life instead of being dragged through it.

Belonging to oneself--the whole essence of life lies in that.

All of life is more or less what the French would call s'imposer, to be able to create one's own terms for what one does.

The right to life does not depend, and must not be declared to be contingent, on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or sovereign.

I have the feeling I've always done what I wanted throughout my life.

I have my own life. And I am stronger than you know.

Sometimes it seems as if I have spent the first half of my life refusing to let white people define me and the second half refusing to let black people define me.

Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.

But for each of us, isn't life about determining your own finish line?

I do not believe, even remotely, that you have to have a partner in your life in order to be whole, in order to be complete, in order to be fulfilled. You just don't have to.

If you don't do the choosing, life will choose for you, and it may not be the choice you want.

Interfere with the reality of my world, and you therefore take the very life and heart out of my will.