Quotes About Autonomy

You don't have to explain your dreams, they belong to you.

And then they want the person to change. If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

Whoever is capable of not minding what others say, is a man on the path to wisdom

We are not the person other people wish we were. We are who we decide to be. It's always easy to blame others. You can spend your entire life blaming the world, but your successes or failures are entirely your own responsibility.

No one loses anyone because no one owns anyone. That is true experience of freedom; having the most important thing in the world without owning it.

Pity those who seek for shepherds, instead of longing for freedom!

I don't know why we human beings are so obsessed with making rules about everything.

you are the only person responsible for your choice

You don't have to explain your dreams, they belong to you.

Some people were born to face life alone, and this is neither good nor bad, it is simply life.

Grown people never ask you what they should do until they've already decided for themselves.

Somehow I had learned from Thoreau, who doubtless learned it from Confucius, that if a man comes to do his own good for you, then must you flee that man and save yourself

I will spend the rest of my life assembling my own mind and my own soul. I will take care of my body carefully, not that it may any more please a man, but because it houses me and therefore I am dependent upon it.

if China is not our suzerain!

He slugged back the last of his coffee and stood. Nobody gets me, sweetheart. And if I want anything you've got, you'll know the minute I come after it.

Rather than freedom from traditional constraints, then, girls were free to choose them. Yet, the line between get to and have to blurs awfully fast.

nobody but yourself can tell you what to accept and what to reject.

We think we'd be delighted to have an unconditional relationship, but that's only as long as it's on our own terms.

Frank was the BOSS and was not open to anything that was not from his head. There were no arguments about music because if you did, he would show you where the door was. Period.

In the real world there's an after-effect of disappointment if you lose an argument. But if, to begin with, you're set up not to have this particular autonomy, then you're not disappointed.

To those who think that the law of gravity interferes with their freedom, there is nothing to say.

We must help the child to act for himself, will for himself, think for himself; this is the art of those who aspire to serve the spirit.

I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.

Nothing is more wonderful than the art of being free, but nothing is harder to learn how to use than freedom.