Quotes About Autonomy

You can't let other people determine how far you are willing to go to reach Destiny because it's simply not their call. They don't get it, so don't worry about them!

Do the job yourself, don't grumble, take your life personal, others can only assist. You're the main fighter in your war.

She had to find her own story, and she could make it whatever shape she thought best.

Every man is the hero of his own song.

You can't force someone to respect you. But you can refuse to be disrespected.

I can do anything I want. Be with anyone I want. And it'll be my choice.

Whatever you do, know that you always have choices about what to do with thoughts—including the ones that belong to someone else. In

No man wanted to be told what he could and could not do. And in that lay a well of strength from which one might not otherwise draw.

I'm a pro-choice conservative. I believe in small government and the individual's right to make choices for themselves.

Feminism is about the freedom of women to be who they are without permission from society.

But give me more credit than that. Someone else may have dealt the hand, but I picked it up off the table, I played every card, and I had my reasons.

You can't make a person, a human being with a first kiss and a sense of humor and a favorite sandwich, and then expect her to dissolve back into scribbled notes and whiskeyed coffee when she no longer suits your purposes. I think I always knew she would come back to find me, someday.

My body my mind the way I dress the way I walk the way I talk, mine all mine.

This has nothing to do with what anyone else in all the world would approve or forbid. This is all their own.

I've only myself to please. There's great freedom in that.

I'm not putting any deadlines on myself," Mart says with dignity, setting a heaped plate in front of Cal. "Not to suit you or anyone else. Now: get your laughing-tackle round that.

The truth is, if you don't exist without someone else, you don't exist at all.

The place makes it clear that whoever lives there has only themselves to please.

I live inside my own skin. Anything that happens outside it doesn't change who I am. This isn't something I'm proud of; as far as I'm concerned, it's a bare minimum baseline requirement for calling yourself an adult human being, somewhere around the level of knowing how to do your own washing or change a toilet roll. All those idiots on the websites, begging for other people to pull their sagging puppet-strings, turn them real: they make me want to spit.

I live inside my own skin. Anything that happens outside it doesn't change who I am. This isn't something I'm proud of; as far as I'm concerned, it's a bare minimum baseline requirement for calling yourself an adult human being,

What I didn't know then was that you can't make people different, whatever you do. They have to do it themselves.

How dare they discuss her as though she were a wayward child in need of a good strapping!

May I accept things as they are. I wish you happiness and well-being, but I cannot make your choices for you or control the way things are.

You have a unique body and mind, with a particular history and conditioning. No one can offer you a formula for navigating all situations and all states of mind. Only by listening inwardly in a fresh and open way will you discern at any given time what most serves your healing and freedom.