Quotes About Autonomy

Only a White Eyes would walk when she had a perfectly good horse to ride.

Oona and Daphne had to figure out a way to adapt to the adult world, and not the other way around. This is an integral concept in French parenting.

Everyone I looked at, their whole lives, did exactly what they were supposed to do without even questioning it, without even wondering if they could do something different.

I saw something I wanted to do and I decided to do it. The feeling of freedom it gave me- I can't even describe it. It was my decision. I chose it.

With time, when I was very old and in my twenties, I might find a man to love, not one forced upon me…

Get off my turf; you're stomping on my sense of self. Stop crossing into my backyard.

she had her own boundaries, she'd no longer need the alternate personalities.

Smart people are often too smart to take advice from others.

The value of your life is your own choosing,

See, this is why I was by myself all those years. Because as soon as you let people in, they start depending on you. And then, if you can't be everything they think you should be, you've let them down. It's easier not to have anybody around at all.

The value of your life is your own choosing," Nathan

But some people don't want you to do what you think is right. Some people want you to do what they think is right.

The value of your life is your own choosing," Nathan said.

You can't tell someone to pursue their dream only if it's a good match for your own. You can't dictate what dream he should pursue.

There are some things it doesn't feel good to do, but there shouldn't be things you can't do. It gives the world too much power over you.

There's a reason people will always let you down. It's because they came to this weird planet to live their own lives. Not anybody else's. Classic case of needs in conflict.

my mouth was involved. My own voice seemed to work all on its own that morning.

This is not a sales call, Mr. Farrelly. I do people's books and taxes. I don't sell young men. Nat is a grown man. He can speak for himself. If you want to know more about him, why not ask him directly? He's sitting right over there.

You can't make somebody leave and you can't make them stay.

Sometimes when a kid's got nobody really running things in his life, he'll decide to take over and take charge of everything. Otherwise the world just seems to be spinning out of control. That seem to hit a note in you?

But some of my favorite parts of me are the parts you don't understand. I don't mean to be hurtful. I'm not saying it in an angry way. I wish we fit together better, too. But I'm not going to change the best of me just because you don't get it.

The one where you appeal to someone's ego. I don't care about that stuff anymore. Whether I'm looked upon as wise or not. I don't need to be right at this point in my life. I don't care what other people choose to do. I just know what I want to do now.

Because you can't control other people. You can't be responsible for somebody else.

Sometimes when a kid's got nobody really running things in his life, he'll decide to take over and take charge of everything. Otherwise the world just seems to be spinning out of control.