Quotes About Autonomy

Individuality is very important for a full human life.

I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.

In a lot of ways, it was a huge relief, not being a member of a troupe, being able to make your own decisions and kind of live your own life.

I am the only one who can tell the story of my life and say what it means.

Remember that anybody who is clever enough to set you free is clever enough to enslave you.

It was never in my dreams to make my personal life anybody else's business.

Who imprisoned me here? Who keeps me here? Who can release me? Who's controlling and constraining my life except...me?

My life is not to be somebody else's impact - you know what I mean?

For someone like me, who prefers to keep their life as private as possible, it was disconcerting to have to define so much about myself. I don't want to be labeled as one thing or another.

I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless.

Advice? I don't offer advice. Not my business. Your life is what you make it.

The principal fact of life is the free mind.

I'm completely in charge of my own life now. Sometimes there's no one there to slap me on the hand and say: 'Stop being so bullish and bossy,' and things like that.

I'm very organized and tidy in my home life and I generally do something myself rather than farm it out to somebody else. I don't have an assistant or anything because I think I can do it myself.

I came to the conclusion that there is an existential moment in your life when you must decide to speak for yourself; nobody else can speak for you.

We do not aspire to communal life but to a life apart.

What is important in your life is what you decide is important -- and this decision will indelibly create who you are

Assume responsibility for the quality of your own life

We are all masters of our own destinies.

You are responsible for your life. It doesn't matter what your Mama did. It doesn't matter what your Daddy didn't do. You are responsible for your life.

It's up to each of us to get very still and say, 'This is who I am.' No one else defines your life. Only you do.

We are each responsible for our own life-no other person can be.

You want to be in the driver's seat of your own life because if you are not, life will drive you.

Culture of dependency leads to a life of slavery, being totally dependent upon government. And government dictates where they go in life.