Quotes About Autonomy

when the time came I would do battle with my mother for the right to sit at the center of my own life.

I wasn't put on this earth to be housekeeper to my own child or to anyone else for that matter.

I am no mother, and I won't be one.

What I object to in Mother is that she wants me to think her thoughts. Apart from the question of hypocrisy, I prefer my own.

I'm not giving any guidance, OK. I mean, you know, mothers are not supposed to give guidance, right? Anyway, so he's [Sean] doing his own thing.

When I said, "I am my mother, but I'm not," I was saying my path would be my own.

You know who you belong to, Jack?""Yeah.""Yourself."He's wrong, actually, I belong to Ma.

My mother gave me a sense of independence, a sense of total confidence that we could do whatever it was we set out to do. That's how we were raised.

No man is responsible for his father. That was entirely his mother's affair.

Freedom, by definition, is people realizing that they are their own leaders.

So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

Only the self-sufficient stand alone - most people follow the crowd and imitate.

The extent to which YOU take responsibility over something is the extent to which YOU take control over it.

Human beings have an innate inner drive to be autonomous, self-determined, and connected to one another. And when that drive is liberated, people achieve more and live richer lives.

Actions have consequences... first rule of life. And the second rule is this - you are the only one responsible for your own actions.

I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.

I refused to be a fool dancing on a string held by all of those big shots. I don't apologise, that's my life

I want to wake up every day and do whatever comes in my mind, and not feel pressure or obligations to do anything else in my life.

Those who follow the crowd usually get lost in it.

The good or ill of a man lies within his own will.

There is no help for you, outside yourself; You are the creator of the universe.

We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.

Be free; hope for nothing from anyone. I am sure if you look back upon your lives you will find that you were always vainly trying to get help from others which never came.