Quotes About Autonomy

You can't live your life through your children.

I don't come from money or an educated family background or any sort of supportive family life, so all of my choices are made on my own.

The cool thing about having a book is that it takes on its own life. Once it's in the world, you can't follow it. You'd have to have a pretty fantastic surveillance system to track its migration.

The great purpose in life is to take your destiny out of the hands of others.

I would never sign up to film my personal life.

An owner is someone who chooses to own their life, own their choices, and own their future.

For most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them.

Mylife might be little and boring, but at least it's mine - not some assembly-line, secondhand, hand-me-down life.

Whatever you want that others in your life can't give you, ask yourself how you can give it to yourself.

If you've done what you intended and if nobody tampered with it, then it's yours. And if people don't like it, then they just don't agree with you on that subject matter, and that's life.

The first of earthly blessings, independence.

The only real influence I've ever had is myself.

No law can shackle human thought

was learning to work things out for myself, not limited by prompting from teachers, parents, or the school curriculum. I relished the power of pure thought combined with the logic and predictability of science. I loved visualizing an idea, and then making it happen.

I eventually came to define my marriage counseling, no matter what the cultural mix, as trying to help people separate so that they would not have to "separate.")

A state or person that depends on others factually stays deprived of actual freedom.

Expecting from others is such a sword that only targets your life, not others.

Love and self-determination never hold and carry options.

Marriage impedes and restricts the freedom that one enjoys as a single. In truth, each one grows with such restrictions, from parents, friends, life partners, and society since its birth. Thus, no one has real freedom.

Never depend on others; rely on your self-confidence since it is a route to the destination of success.

One cannot enforce one else, not to love it; however, it can abandon itself, not to respond regarding that.

Partnership, in whatever way, restricts and limits your independence.

Precisely, neither law nor action, nor force of one else can eliminate Self-determination of Kashmiris; indeed, it will be a reality of reality.

The foreign policy determines and shows actual freedom and independence of the state.