Quotes About Autonomy

If everybody spent enough time worrying about their own goddamn selves, no one would have to worry about anyone else.

It's healthier to reject certain cautions than fall in line. I assume you know that, he said.

She wanted to create her future, not enter a state already shaped to her outline.

Once you're a made man, you don't need the constant living influence of sources outside yourself.

No one is responsible for your emotional reactions except you. Others can say and do anything they like but what happens inside you is only the result of what you are thinking and feeling.

Privacy is the foundation of free societies.

When two people are entirely and completely separate they are finally compatible to be one. Nobody's self-worth lives inside of another person. Intimacy means we are independently together.

No girl who plays the role of a hero dates a guy who uses her. She knows who she is. She just forgot for a little while.

What goes on in the other person's soul is none of your business. All you're responsible for is your soul, nobody else's.

The worst things in history have happened when people stop thinking for themselves and listen to other people and, even worse, start following other people. That's what gives rise to dictators.

Here is my experience. Stay away from the ones you love too much. Those are the ones who will kill you. What you want to live and be happy in the world is a woman who has her own life and lets you have yours.

What you want is to live and be happy in the world is a woman (or man) who has her (his) own life and lets you have yours

Stay away from the ones you love too much. Those are the ones who will kill you. What you want to live and be happy in the world is a woman who has her own life and lets you live yours.

I'm a grown woman, and I can fend for myself. Now help me put on my pants.

I am not the we of anyone

There are so many people who do things to you, and you end up feeling hurt and insulted. In doing so, you merely let them drive you. You let them become your masters.

The road my elders dictate is a narrow one, and I no longer believe it to be the road to wisdom. I choose my ow road. I choose to do the right thing, as you call it. I would not choose another companion for that road, and should you choose to walk that road with me, it would be..," his voice faltered, unable to put words to Alain's feelings, but he met her eyes, trying to let his feelings show. Perhaps he succeeded this time, because once again Mari blushed and bent her head.

Excuse me," Kira said. "I am perfectly capable of getting myself into a mess. Isn't that what the Senior Mechanics tried to say about my mother? That someone else was leading her astray? I'm in this mess because of my decisions.

You — no one else!

I am in charge of my own spaceship. It's my up, my down. I could choose to see this situation as a setback or a starting point.

we cannot control how others feel and react. Even though we should understand feelings, there are some things that are out of our control, and some decisions we can only make for ourselves.

The house is a bit of a monster, and slowly you belong to it and begin to function in it like living furniture that gets rearranged—you become another gear inside the machine of the house, or a hand puppet to your parents. You won't find freedom until you find yourself in a place that doesn't own you.

The patient's autonomy always, always should be respected, even if it is absolutely contrary - the decision is contrary to best medical advice and what the physician wants.

My ultimate aim is to make euthanasia a positive experience.