Quotes About Autonomy

The world is full of little dictators trying to run your life.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that you can't live somebody else's life for them. They have to make their own choices, and sometimes all we can do is learn to live with them.

It is better to fail at your own life than to succeed at someone else's.

No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.

Go ahead without me, I'll find my own way.

I just went and got an agent because I thought I can create my own world - you can't right your own life, but you can escape to a world where you can have control.

Liberty means more to me than life itself.

Control your destiny or somebody will.

You have to be able to make a real creative life for Yourself, before you can expect anyone Else to provide one ready-made for you.

Lead a life of your own design, on your own terms -not one that others, or the environment have scripted for you.

You get to define the terms of your life.

Your life belongs to you and you alone.

It's great when you find somebody you're compatible with, but I'm really into separate bedrooms. You live your life and I live mine.

I'm the only one that can be held accountable for the way my life turns out.

The right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness means that each of us is free to go our own way, even if the ways some of us may choose to go seem sinful or shocking to our fellow citizens.

What I do with my life is of my own doing. I live it the best way I can.

If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first.

No, I'm happy to go on living the life I've chosen. I'm a university teacher and I like my job.

People seem to think that life began with the achievement of personal independence.

If someone tries to use you as a tool, you shouldn't mind it, because it is their choice and folly, not yours.

The more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over his life.

Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.

He is always a slave who cannot live on little.

A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life.