Quotes About Autonomy

Dont throw yourself out on another's whim. People change, as do intentions and as a result, consequences. Live for yourself - Love those around you, but realize that they've got their own agendas.

Love rests on two pillars: surrender and autonomy. Our need for togetherness exists alongside our need for separateness.

Nobody is gonna love you like you.

True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself, hence it remains the favorite pastime of the great lovers of their own person.

What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.

The thing you have to be prepared for is that other people don't always dream your dream.

When you learn to say yes to yourself, you will be able to say no to others, with love.

Love is the revelation of the other person's freedom.

I love being able to be political without any political affiliation.

When I see someone who just follows their dream and succeeds, and just does basically what they want to do and doesn't have to answer to anyone, obviously not harming anyone, that's great.

I may not be free, but I'm not about to surrender the illusion of choice.

Who can say they saw a whole play or read a whole book? Each has their own experience, their own play, their own book

I want him to live if HE wants to live. If he doesn't, then by forcing him to carry on, you, me..... we become just another shitty bunch of people taking away his choices.

Astonishingly, not all girls get dressed just to please men.

If you'd bothered to ask me, Clark, if you'd bothered to consult me just once about this so-called fun outing of ours, I could have told you. I hate horses, and horse racing. Always have. But you didn't bother to ask me. You decided what you thought you'd like me to do, and you went ahead and did it. You did what everyone else does. You decided for me.

You and I both know I can do just fine without you. But here's the thing: I don't want to.

The key was making sure that anyone you allowed to walk beside you didn't get to decide which you were, and pin you down like a butterfly in a case. The key was to know that you could always somehow find a way to reinvent yourself again.

I don't want my happiness to be entirely dependent on somebody else's, to be a hostage to fortunes I cannot control.

You have self-respect. You have friends. You have satisfaction every day, of a job well done. You have agency over your own life. These are not small things.

But I want him to live if he wants to live. If he doesn't, then by forcing him to carry on, you, me—no matter how much we love him—we become just another shitty bunch of people taking away his choices." Nathan

her. "No, thank you, Mrs. Cordoza. You get along. I'm just

Esential este sa te asiguri ca omul pe care il accepti alaturi de tine nu decide cine esti si nu te tintuieste ca pe un fluture intr-un insectar.

nobody was truly free. Perhaps all freedom—physical, personal—really only came at the cost of somebody or something else.

But I want him to live if he wants to live. If he doesn't, then by forcing him to carry on, you, me—no matter how much we love him—we become just another shitty bunch of people taking away his choices.