Quotes About Autonomy

If you let others tell you who you are, you are living their reality — not yours.

There is more to life than pleasing people.

The thing about our lives is that. We have to accept that people make their own choices, and we're not responsible for those choices, even if they're our family.

Don't look at the mistakes of others. Start with you, and your own life. Instead of having the need to control other people or their circumstances.

I am a strong and powerful person. I am proud to be who I am and I celebrate the qualities that I have as a person. I am not defined by other people's opinion of who I should be or what I should do as a person.. I determine that, not anyone else.

I am a strong and powerful person. I am proud to be who I am and I celebrate the qualities that I have as myself. I am not defined by other people's opinion of who I should be or what I should do as a person.. I determine that, not anyone else.

Everyone has freewill, but few know how to use it wisely.

Do what you have to do, for you.

Today... You're on your own you know what to decide and where to go...

Auld John may dee a beggar in a hay barn, or at the back of a dike, but he sall aye be master o' his ain thoughts an' gie them vent or no, as he likes

In your relationships you sacrificed your autonomy to gain security and wound up with neither.")

How scary it might prove to conclude that I am essentially alone in this summons to personal consciousness, that I cannot continue to blame others for what has happened to me, that I am really out there on that tightrope over the abyss, making choices every day, and that I am truly, irrevocably responsible for my life. That I would have to grow up, stand naked before this immense brutal universe, and step in to the largeness of this journey, my journey.

So, then, now you know your task: to become what the gods want, not what your parents want, not what your tribe wants, but what the gods want, and what your psyche will support if consciousness so directs.

Every man has a right to kill himself.

No, it did a lot of other things, too. [turning down fan who asked to kiss the hand that wrote Ulysses

No serás el dueño de otros ni tampoco su esclavo.

I also am sure that there is no such thing as free thinking inasmuch as all thinking must be bound by its own laws.

Cat's away the mice will play.

In the end he [God] will allow us to become what we have chosen.

Be your own man, even if you don't add up to much.

Laugh all you want. I can laugh all I want. ::pause for effect:: Did someone here make me say that? -Kyp and Bombaasa

essence of liberty as independence, which required the ownership of productive property.

Freedom to be oneself is all very well; the greater freedom is not to be oneself.

I mean,he decided we'd be better apart,you know?it wasn't a joint decision.like, if your gonna make a decision about me and my life without consulting me,i'd better be dying and unconscious and you'd better be following carefully written instructions.