Quotes About Autonomy

This life is a tremendous assertion of freedom

If I knew that I could die, I would live. My life, my death, my choice.

It's my choice, to choose how to live my life.

You can't go around being what everyone wants you to be, living your life through other people's rules, and expect to be happy and have inner peace.

Other actors are not my concern, and that's their life and that's their journey. Everybody has to get to a point in their own time and their own way.

I'm a little bit of a weirdo - I'm kind of a loner, I didn't go to college, I spend a lot of my time reading. I've been working since I was 17, so that's sort of been my life.

I'll take any life in which I can make choices and have agency, and America is not a bad place for all that.

Not only our moral life, but even our use of theoretical reason - on which we rely in rationally inquiring into nature - presupposes that we are free.

I am in an extended self-directed course of study. That is, I am in control of my own life.

I think a lot of people would rather have more control over their life than less.

I've spent my life supporting myself.

The most important thing we ever have to learn in life is to live with our choices.

My father raised me to think independently and follow my own path in life.

Why am I so often at the mercy of those who don't deserve to control my life?

It's up to me if I decide to do what I think is right.

Why should I give someone else such power over my life?

The person who has the most to do what happens to you in life is you. Not somebody else and not the environment.

Into every tidy scheme for arranging the pattern of human life, it is necessary to inject a certain dose of anarchism.

Have your own life before you become somebody's wife.

You say you're looking for someone who'll pick you up each time you fall, to gather flowers constantly and to come each time you call, a lover your life and nothing more. But it ain't me, babe.

It's your life, live it your way.

I'm not trying to say that people don't have the right opinion but I have to live my life. And I'm living it and I'm loving it.

The worst thing you can do is to put your life aside for someone else.

It's not up to the government to regulate everybody's life and lifestyle.