Quotes About Autonomy

There's an unconscious part of ourselves we want to defend," she continues, "and it's been useful and helped us survive the difficult stuff we went through with Mom or Dad or the priest or the coach. But we don't want it driving the car anymore." She looks at me and Troy and Adam and Calvin, then concludes: "Life's not worth living if you're living someone else's life.

that America will never be happy till she gets clear of foreign dominion.

If we want to turn Africa into a new Europe ... then let us leave the destiny of our countries to Europeans. They will know how to do it better than the most gifted among us.'25

That deliverance is of no avail which does not depend upon yourself; those only are reliable, certain, and durable that depend upon yourself and your valor.

Armour belonging to someone else either chops off you or weighs you down or is too tight

and those modes of defence are alone good, certain and lasting, which depend upon yourself and your own worth.

he will see a golden age where each person can hold and defend the opinions that he wishes.

Pero un príncipe sabio evitará siempre valerse de unas y de otras y recurrirá a sus propias armas, prefiriendo perder con ellas a ganar con las ajenas.

One should never fall in the belief that you can find someone to pick you up.

Don't take my advice. Or anyone's advice. Trust yourself. For good or for bad, happy or unhappy, it's your life, and what you do with it has always been entirely up to you.

Stop thinking about what I want, what he wants, what your parents want. What do YOU want?

I think you can do whatever you want. In the end, we all live the life we choose for ourselves.

In the end, the only one you can ever really please is yourself. How others feel is up to them.

People liked to imagine they were free to choose their own lives, but she had learned that choice was sometimes illusory.

You're choosing to let life control you, instead of the other way around. That's the big secret. You choose the kind of life you want to live.

Hell, if they wanted to act like idiots, why try to stop them?

the only one you can ever really please is yourself. How others feel is up to them.

you can do whatever you want. In the end, we all live the life we choose for ourselves.

I am not defined to be in any mould and I can be whatever I want to be.

At the end of the day, all I can do is control me and what comes out of my mouth.

I'm a late developer. I only moved out of home when I was 30.

I don't really feel part of any particular movement.

The universe moves in the direction of Liberty.

I've gone places where they've told me what I need to do, what I need to say, who I need to be, what moves I need to perform. And at Impact I get to just be me. I have creative control to be me and do what I want.