Quotes About Autonomy

Maybe it's been like that for you till now. But you're not a kid anymore. You have the right to choose your own life. You can start again. If you want a cat, all you have to do is choose a life in which you can have a cat. It's simple. It's your right... right?

I thought about the screws and their happiness. Maybe they were glad to be free of the eggbeater, to be independent screws, to luxuriate on white trays. It did feel good to see them happy.

One other thing I learned from working in a company was that the majority of people in the world have no problem following orders. They're actually happy to be told what to do. They might complain, but that's not how they really feel. They just grumble out of habit. If you told them to think for themselves, and make their own decisions and take responsibility for them, they'd be clueless.

M?runÈ›iÈ™urile pe care le gândeÈ™ti cu propria-È›i minte sunt mai importante decât marile idei emise de alÈ›ii.

From elementary school up to college I was never interested in things I was forced to study. I told myself it was something that had to be done, I only began to enjoy studying after I got through the educational system and became a so-called member of society. If something interested me, and I could study it at my own pace and approach it the way I liked, I was pretty efficient at acquiring knowledge and skills.

Every person should decide for himself how happy, or unhappy, our society might be.

I've been an outsider all my life. It's been kind of hard, but I like that way of living.

I never want to be bound to anything. I always want to be able to come and go as I please.

He comes out of the mine about the same as when he went in. He has no sense that it was something he decided to do himself, or that he had a choice. He's like totally passive. But I think in real life people are like that. It's not so easy to make choices on your own.

I can't afford to take responsibilities for others' lives. It's all I can do to bear the weight of my own life and my own loneliness

I was determined that my free time was going to be mine.

Where Watanabe and I are alike is we don't give a damn if nobody understands us… That's what makes us different from everybody else. They're all worried about whether the people around them understand them. But not me, and not Watanabe. We just don't give a damn. Self and others are separate.

For the sake of argument, let's say all your choices and all your effort are destined to be a waste. You're still very much yourself and nobody else. And you're forging ahead, as yourself. So relax.

In a sense, I'm the one who ruined me: I did it myself.

I could never get excited about games you play with other people. I can't get into them. I lose interest.

He was the type of man who had his own sense of logic and reached his own conclusions without regard to the opinions of others.

My own mind is my own church."43

Do not be the slave of anyone when God has created you free.[23]

No one person, group, or book can—or should—tell everyone what choices are right for them, because there is no one right set of sexual choices for everyone. What is absolutely right for one person can be absolutely wrong for someone else. Only you can find out what your sexuality should be like, and define it accordingly.

I'm not going to tell you how to feel about or view perimenopause, menopause, and life after. That's yours to feel. If we're entitled to anything, having reached this stage of life or otherwise found ourselves here, it should be the right to own and contextualize our own experience of this.

What both halves of my heart-mind can agree on is that I am the one who chooses how to respond to the people and situations I encounter everyday.

You have to know that the life you have is completely yours

There is no real dignity in any of these costumes. If I'm a maid, I do what the owner of the house tells me to do. If I'm a nurse, I do whatever the doctor tells me to do. What are we as women, other than barnacles that attach themselves to higher life forms in some pathetic attempt to clean up messes? Tidy up what men have left behind- make the world a lovelier, better place for men. I would like to play a part in which I don't have a superior.

But your task is to become something much more unique and surprising than anyone your parents could ever imagine you to be. You have to know that the life you have is completely yours.