Quotes About Autonomy

She put a higher value on independence than an asthmatic put on oxygen.' Tzader

I believe in having a private life.

I wasn't born with a tie or with Mark Shields stapled to my left hip. I have another life.

THE GREATEST RISK IN LIFE IS TO WAIT FOR AND DEPEND UPON OTHERS FOR YOUR OWN SECURITY.

One's life is peculiar to one's own when one has invented it.

I can't tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I've got a good bead on myself.

I used to care about how other people thought I led my life. But lately I've realized that most people are too preoccupied with their own lives to give anybody else even the scantiest of thoughts.

I'm intensely anxious to preserve the freedom that gives you the right to think and to act and to talk as you please. That I think is essential to happiness and the life of the people.

From the beginning, I wanted to live my own life, and patiently I shored up that desire against wind and tide.

I'll not complain about your boring life, if you just leave me to mine

Every generation proclaims that each must lead his own life, but seldom grants the subsequent generation the right to lead theirs.

If life was what you made of it, then it could not be made for you.

I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either.

People over-focus on teachers as an excuse to avoid their own life, and that way they fail to take responsibility for themselves. They have this feeling that the teacher will just take care of them.

A person without much power is easily influenced by others, whether they are physical or non-physical beings. Their life is easily ruined. They are blown around like a leaf in the wind.

Our purpose in this life is to gain the view of ourselves; otherwise, we are total slaves to others who psychically drain us, abuse us.

Whatever we try to control does have control over us and our life.

No one runs your life unless you let them. And you have more power than you think.

I don't understand how most pop stars live this life being told what to do, what to wear, all the time. Maybe money does mean more to some people.

I'm not blaming my mom for my life because I am responsible for me and nobody can change me or ruin me easier than I can.

It's nothing sinister but my private life belongs to me.

I remember thinking that the rest of my life would be solo. I wasn't weepy when I thought that - it was just a realization that I had gone this long being self-sufficient.

Writing and directing your own film, for me, has been the best experience of my life.

I am so territorial, that [from the start] I just felt like whatever I was gonna do I was gonna write it myself, its my personal preference to always be in control of everything I do in life.