Quotes About Autonomy

I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.

I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.

If the mountains fell in the sea, Let it be, it ain't me. Got my own world to live through And I ain't gonna copy you. Now, if 6 turned up to be 9, I don't mind, I don't mind. If all the hippies cut off their hair, I don't care, I don't care. Did, 'cos I got my own world to live through And I ain't gonna copy you.

You can't love me.' 'Don't be bossy. I can do what the hell I like.

To the question of your life, you are the only answer. To the problems of your life, you are the only solution.

Of all the people you will know in a lifetime, you are the only one you will never leave or lose. To the question of your life, You are the only answer. To the problems of your life, You are the only solution.

There's a way that money is freedom, but it isn't money, it's that money stands for having a choice.

Everyone had their own internal life and their own soul, and they were entitled to make their own choices.

There's nothing less exciting than being thought of as part of a class of beings that are all the same," I said. "You're treating me as a thing.

Do que acontecido, me senti muito livre. Trotei, adiante. Eu ia, à meia-rédea, não me instava, não pensava.

Denn du bist du Und kannst dir selber nicht entflien. Leg dich in deine Hände.

Denn du bist du Und kannst dir selber nicht entfliehn. Leg dich in deine Hände.

You can't be with someone else effectively, unless you can stand to be alone with yourself," he declared. "Being part of a couple isn't the final answer. It can't define who you are.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life — is the source from which self-respect springs.

To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves--there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.

Thus we determined 'tis not solely the condition, but whether or not one has a choice that determines its oppression.

A man must walk only his own path...Never another's or his feet will grow tired and sore. And he will feel lost even when he arrives.

You won't get extra marks for being teacher's pet. You won't go to the top of the class. There is no class. There is no teacher. Or if there is then you have to understand that he or she doesn't actually like you. You are not being marked out of ten for how neatly you sharpen your pencil and how lovely your handwriting is. You are not going to get a gold star. You are not the fucking flower monitor and no one cares what you do.

you can't imbibe someone's success by fucking them.

Ninety-nine percent of men are okay with following the rules and doing what they're told. We're the other one percent, so we built our own world with our own rules.

Life is too short to let a man call the shots.

Aparta tu nariz de mis asuntos, saca tu pagaré de tu alcancía, estoy más solo cuando estamos juntos que con tu puto com por compañía.

Machado de Assis is a kind of miracle, another demonstration of the autonomy of literary genius in regard to time and place, politics and religion.