Quotes About Autonomy

No man in his senses can hesitate in choosing to be free, rather than a slave.

I don't need love or a man to complete me,and someday, you'll find that true for yourself. Suitors will come and go, but you will remain.

You cannot prevent a man getting drunk if he wishes to do so, but when he becomes a nuisance, then you interfere.

Man loves liberty, even if he does not know that he loves it. He is driven by it and flees from where it does not exist.

Each man is his own absolute lawgiver, the dispenser of glory or gloom to himself; the decreer of his life, his reward, his punishment.

If you've put yourself in a position where someone has to see you in order for you to be safe - to see you, and to give a fuck - you've already blown it.

Those of us who are going to live, Dinah Said, have to start living by our own lights.

Well, I am not fully convinced that I really need this," Randy says. "We all need to decide that question for ourselves," says Avi.

Free from the constraints of racking up high test scores or getting into colleges, students could learn for learning's sake—which was how it ought to be.

Enjoy everything. Need nothing. Needing someone is the fastest way to kill a relationship .. The greatest gift you can give someone is the strength and the power not to need you, to need you for nothing.

So long as you entertain the notion that there is something or someone else out there "doing it" to you, you disempower yourself to do anything about it. Only when you say "I did this" can you find the power to change it.

So long as you're still worried about what others think of you, you are owned by them. Only when you require no approval from outside yourself can you own yourself.

Yet what kind of choice is free when to choose one thing over the other brings condemnation? How is "free will" free when it is not your will, but someone else's, which must be done?

For it is only when they can accept responsibility for all of it that they can achieve the power to change part of it. So long as you entertain the notion that there is something or someone else out there "doing it" to you, you disempower yourself to do anything about it. Only when you say "I did this" can you find the power to change it. It

Yet I tell you this: So long as you are still worried about what others think of you, you are owned by them.

nobody owes you anything

You are free to announce and declare Who You Are in every moment of Now. Indeed, you are doing so, without even knowing it. You are not free, however, to declare who someone else is, or who they must be.

What is important in your life is what you decide is important -- and this decision will indelibly create who you are

I don't owe people anything, and I don't have to talk to them any more than I feel I need to.

I shrug. I don't really need to explain this to Aaron. He's been demoted from most important friend to friend, and he's going to have to earn that, even. And you know what else? I don't owe people anything, and I don't have to talk to them any more than I feel I need to.

To learn that it's easier to be told by others what to think and believe than it is to think for yourself.

There's no greater education than one that's self-driven

If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice.

If he wants me to stay away, he should leave me alone.