Quotes About Autonomy

All of them with their own lives, untouched by mine. Or each other's.

Some bridges you crossed on your own, no matter who drove you to the edge.

Remind yourself. Nobody built like you, you design yourself.

I live proudly in a body of my own design. I defend my right to be complex

Any tendency to design for design's sake, to create a pattern within which the owner must live according to rules set by the designer, is headed for frustration, if not disaster.

Most human beings, though in varying degrees, desire to control, not only their own lives but also the lives of others

The desire to be self-supporting and financially independent is a divine desire

Liberty consists in doing what one desires.

The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.

I skate just to satisfy my own desire and not care about other peoples desire for me to do well.

I feel no need and have no desire to give any attention to other people's opinion of me.

If any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly, those who desire it for others

There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence.

My ardent desire is... to keep the United States free from political connexions with every other Country. To see that they may be independent of all, and under the influence of none.

To be authentic is literally to be your own author... to discover your own native energies and desires, and then to find your own way of acting on them.

I don't know what 15-year-old doesn't have a desire to separate themselves from their parents and prove their independence.

The desire not to be impinged upon, to be left to oneself, has been the markof high civilisation both on the part of individuals and communities.

Just because you married doesn't mean you're not an individual person with your own wants and desires and needs.

People can think whatever they like. I don't desire their validation.

Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.

A woman is free if she lives by her own standards and creates her own destiny, if she prizes her individuality and puts no boundaries on her hopes for tomorrow.

We should never allow our fears or the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny.

You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny.

...remember one thing only: that it's you-nobody else-who determines your destiny and decides your fate. Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else.