Quotes About Autonomy

I'm actually quite self-sufficient, so it might look as if there isn't room for anyone in my life. That isn't entirely the case.

I'm in control of my life, not anyone in Hollywood.

I have been here five days. I have decided on a place to eat in at midday, a place to eat in at night, a place to have my drink in after dinner. I have arranged my little life.

Horace normally didn't need anyone else to save his life. He was pretty skilled at doing it for himself.

Whatever it is that you do in your life, you're your own guide.

But there it is: Everyone is alone, for life, and maybe that's not such a bad thing.

Hand over your responses to the man who triggers them, and you have already lost the battle for self. Look beyond, and find yourself there instead.

I built my entire life on the idea of independence.

It's amazing how everyone has an opinion on how you should live your life.

To leave, after all, was not the same as being left.

I think you don't grow up until you stop worrying about other people's purposes or lack of them and find the purposes you believe in for yourself.

You know, what if everybody's wrong in life? And so you have to live your life yourself.

The great thing in life is not to be able to do things, because then they are always done for you.

I can't always live my life for everybody else.

Asking the government to help you for short periods of time is different than asking the government to take care of you for the rest of your life.

[Woman's] life-long economic parasitism has utterly blurred her conception of the meaning of equality.

In England, your life is your life.

It's really not important what my personal life is.

Another person's life is that person's life. You can't take responsibility.

The single life is not one I willingly chose for myself.

Thankfully, I'm not put in a position where I'm made to feel like I can't live my life.

We are all, right now, living the life we choose.

It sounds so trite, but my private life is mine.

The only thing that matters in life is your own opinion about yourself, nobody can destroy your dignity then, because it is not dependent on anybody's opinion.