Quotes About Autonomy

I always talk about love but I've seen a life where I can live without it, where I can eat with my hands, make the whole bed, leave the light on for myself.

The most important day is the day you decide you're good enough for you. It's the day you set yourself free.

Don't beg for approval or expect respect. Respect comes from within and your choice to allow people to take it from you, by how you teach them to treat you.

I am more than my measurements. The cycle of body-shaming needs to end. I'm over it… My body is MY body. I'll call the shots.

The only personYou shouldn't be ableTo live withoutIs you.

In the end, only you can care about you.

When your own approval means more than the approval of others, that is self-love.

Nothing and no one can harm you unless you choose to allow it.

All my life, in nameless, indeterminate ways, I'd tried to complete my life with someone else--first my father, then Hugh, even Whit, and I didn't want that anymore. I wanted to belong to myself.

I'm OK with being single, but I'm not OK when the time comes where I have to move my furniture around and to change the high ceiling light balls...

In this world it is not possible that everyone will follow your steps. You can't change some one and some one will not change their lifestyle because of you.

I have never counted on someone to take care of my emotions for me.

I would give Alex back control so she could protect herself instead of making the decision for her.

Remember, I might be the wind, but you control the kite.

I never needed the Society, " she says, "to Match me." (-Lei)

Finally liberty has come!

If you want to be loved, do what others want. If you want to live, do what you want. The choice is yours.

I am not collarbones or drunken letters never sent. I am not the way I leave or left or didn't know how to handle anything, at any time, and I am not your fault.

Não estatize meus sentimentos. Pra seu governo, o meu estado é independente.

We can help pave the roads of those around us, but we can't choose their direction.

I changed for the better when I quit expecting others to.

Don't fall in love or let anyone's life become more important than your own.

I'm aware of my actions and responsible for them, so I don't owe any explanation to anyone.

You do not control everything, nor does everything control you. You are not entirely at the hands of your environment, nor is it entirely at the hands of you.