Quotes About Autonomy

But Sam doesn't need to be my therapy, or my life preserver, or my rescuer. I have to be all those things for myself if a marriage between us is ever going to work.

You expect me to do everything for you?' ' No. Just dress me. Please.

Taking someone's will, someone's freedom...it kills the heart, and then the soul.

There's no such thing as a soulmate...and who would want there to be? I don't want half of a shared soul. I want my own damn soul.

What's better, I wonder - to be a toy for the humans, or to control your own destiny , even if the only way to do so is suicide?

But the universe doesn't decide what's right or not right. You do.

I reveled in solitude. If Lily wanted to believe there was a somebody out there just for her, I wanted to believe that I could be somebody in here just for me.

Yet illness had taught her already that the body was bound by no rules but its own.

What sort of life is possible--with no ground beneath one's feet except the logic of one's own mind?

If there be any further freedom than the one granted by excommunication, perhaps it is the freedom not to exist.

If you carry someone else's fears and live by someone else's values, you may find that you have lived their lives.

La pregunta es hija de la libertad.

Free will," she agreed, "our greatest gift, the thing that makes life worth living, in spite of all the anguish it brings.

your life is yours to shape as you wish with free will...

She wasn't clay in the hands of others; she was rock, and with her own determined hands, she could sculpt the person that she wanted to be. She

It needs to be free. It was born free. It isn't property.

succeed, the movement must break the bonds between parents and children, between husbands and wives.

To succeed, the movement must break the bonds between parents and children, between husbands and wives.

never come across a footprint other than one of her own.

He has no master here. He is an independent agent and pursues his own agenda.

The greatest gift we were given is our free will, and we keep misusing it.

Because we have free will, our tomorrows are never determined until we make them day by day.

Just because we have birds inside is, we don't have to be cages. -from Instant Recognition between Strangers

Freedom is being able to choose whoever and whatever you want to be at any moment in your life.