Quotes About Autonomy

Everybody's got the right to go to hell in the handcart of their choice.

Let others do as they wished, but she would live the life she began and would not run from corner to corner in a frenzy. She would wait for her own happiness, not someone else's.

Don't listen to people--listen to yourself.

But you said you no longer care for the world's opinion," I said to him, "nor will I.

Visuomenei, jei j? sudaryt? pilnavert?s, m?stan?ios b?tyb?s, gerai suprantan?ios viena kit? ir nekonkuruojan?ios taip beprasmiškai, nereik?t? nei vyriausyb?s, nei ?statym?, nei vadov?.

Being cool is being your own self, not doing something that someone else is telling you to do.

People have nothing to do and therefore they interfere with the life of others. I dont want to interfere with the life of others.

An ethnic community that rebels for independence must stand on its own feet in economic life. It is a truism that only such an ethnic community can enjoy independence.

The hardest work you have to do is to learn to depend on your inner self because you have been taught to look always to someone else.

My ambition is to enjoy my life and to do exactly what I want to do. And I'll do that. I will be free.

Freedom is not a license to act but a license to exercise free choices in any given situation.

An appeal to a general human sense of justice easily gets corrupted into an idea of justice apart from God and His word. It tempts people back into love of self, lust for autonomy, and lust for defining justice to suit themselves and their narrow interests instead of God.

Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.

What a dawning appears to the man or woman who earnestly inquires, 'Who is living my life for me?' Am I really thinking for myself or am I unknowingly projecting acquired ideas which may be all wrong?

Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart.

lovers, even those who are married, always exist autonomously of one another, no matter how close they are or how long they've known each other. That's why jealously can flare in even the most intimate relationships. Because you know that at some basic level this person exists separately from you. No mater how close you are, the landscape of their life is always tinted a different hue than your own." - Hunter to Joanna

Constant togetherness is fine — but only for Siamese twins.

Your choices are your only freedom.

The beauty of America is people can do what they like.

The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.

Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.

I am in control of all decisions that have to do with my image, which means that no one will decide what's right for me except me. I'm not special. We should all feel this way about ourselves.

The beauty of golf, you're in charge out here.

Some say that I was once uncommonly beautiful, but I wouldn't wish beauty on any woman who has not her own freedom, and who chooses not the hands that claim her.