Quotes About Autonomy

Self-discovery is the process of learning about who you are as an individual, independent from your friends, family, employer, or nation.

Here's why famous experts who write books never go back to regular jobs: regular jobs are hard. Regular jobs mean you answer to others. Regular jobs mean you do regular, and often repetitive, things. Regular jobs mean you are not the center of attention and have to follow rules made by other people.

At what point do you no longer need other people to support the decisions you've made about your own reality?

We like what we like, we want what we want, and nobody needs to give us permission to feel that way!

How you live is truly a choice. What you're going to do and who you are going to do it with, those are choices only you can make. That was my "aha" moment.

Q: What is the best thing about being a hundred? A: No peer pressure.

But is that what life is like for everyone? Can a person truly make a life of their own, or can they only continue the culture into which they are born?

Their reasons don't mean anything unless I have a choice.

You lose more of yourself than you redeem doing the decent thing. Keep at a tangent When they make the circle wide, it's time to swim Out on your own and fill the element with signatures on your own frequency.

I trust contrariness. ... I simply rebelled at being commanded.

We have taken control of biology, but not of ourselves.

The essence of a degree of freedom is that it doesn't depend on anything else.

Time,--the most independent of all things.

For the first time I feel really free.

When you have somebody who takes their craft seriously, you don't have to babysit them and be there all the time.

You took my freedom away a long time ago and you can't give it back because you haven't got it yourself.

I'm not going to marry a third time. It is just not necessary.

I don't spend a lot of time with anybody.

Some people have a team of ten people - Waste of money, waste of time. I do it on my own when I'm in the ring.

When you're my age, you'll see that it is wiser to make your own decisions than let time make decisions for you.

I like to be as free as possible at all times.

He never wears a watch (his own rebellion against time, against watching).

I don't need to be born again. I got it right the first time.

Control your own time. Don't let it be done for you. If you are working off the in-box that is fed you, you are probably working on the priority of others.