Quotes About Autonomy

I'm an adult and this is my house. I can grow what I like in my garden. Wear what I choose. What difference does it make what you or anyone else thinks of as normal? Why the f should I care if you approve?

For the first time in my life, I was alone. And for the first time in my life, I knew what the hell I was doing.

There were at least three major contributing factors to this alienation: the relative political autonomy of provincial and city chiefs, the hubris China experienced after the 2008–2009 global financial crisis, and the relatively weak central leadership in the 2000s.

I don't need anybody to tell me how to be alive.

He who has an opinion of his own, but depends on the opinion and tastes of others is a slave.

Everyone has his own philosophy that doesn't hold good for anybody else.

If one is going to err, one should err on the side of liberty and freedom.

The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone.

If you could see for yourself then there'd be no need to lend an ear to what others said.

Not everyone has to be in a relationship to feel good about themselves. Some people are better off on their own.

It's hard to know who you are when you've been assigned a role so young. If your identity comes from what you do for other people, who are you when you're alone?

People are, well, people, and they all have their own quirks and will do whatever they want to no matter what you would like them to do.

It's not easy to love someone, but really, really not want anything of what they are to rub off on you.

And you know what? You can't make me responsible for you and the choices you make." I turned around and started walking toward the house.

Really, I think my tippy state was a sign. I was supposed to see how much I was depending on Ben. I was supposed to realize that you can't depend on another person to provide your own balance.

On not crowding another person in a relationship: "Next time you're at a cemetary, look around at all the headstones. They're side by side. Even married couples. Nobody wants a plot on top of another person's plot. Why? ... Even when they're dead, people still love their own space.

Nessa] didn't know how to disagree with a preacher, or if she was even allowed to, so she merely wrote, "Thank you, anyway, kind sir, but I am not going to marry you.

Goddamn, sometimes it hurt to be free.

It's not a date. I bought my own drink and I didn't shave my legs.

We can't live other people's lives for them. Even if we love them.

Sometimes love means trusting people to make their own decisions. In other words, shutting up.

With the very decision to put his own way above all other ways he has already in large part fulfilled his liberating vocation. He has cancelled the validity of all other ways for himself. He has placed his law above all conventions.

evaluation by others is not a guide for me. The judgments of others, while they are to be listened to, and taken into account for what they are, can never be a guide for me. This has been a hard thing to learn.

I am less and less a creature of influences in myself which operate beyond my ken in the realms of the unconscious. I am increasingly an architect of self. I am free to will and choose. I can, through accepting my individuality, my 'isness,' become more of my uniqueness, more of my potentiality.