Quotes About Autonomy

Do you know that other than my father, I've never had a man take care of me?

I realize that when I moved out of my father's house I shocked and frightened him because I needed a room of my own, a space of my own to reinvent myself.

You don't want to do what your parents want you to do. You got your own things. And the whole idea of getting a job because of who your father is - that didn't isn't right.

I was raised with a sense of entrepreneurship - my father owned a roofing business, and I grew up with the idea that you never want someone telling you what you can and cannot do.

My father felt that children should make their own way.

Let your child be the teenager he or she wants to be, not the adolescent you were or wish you had been.

I always knew I wanted to make my own way; I never wanted to be dependent on my father.

My father taught me to be independent and cocky and free thinking, but he could not stand it if I disagreed with him.

I am Zarathustra the Godless: where shall I find my equal? All those who give themselves their own will and renounce all submission, they are my equals.

If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.

Any device whatever by which one frees himself from the fear of others is a natural good.

there is every reason to fear that the State is growing ever more powerful, more autonomous, more indifferent to its own inhabitants.

Fear is a way of not allowing yourself to choose freely what you will do next; a way of letting your body's reflexes, not the needs of your mind, choose for you.

... reason accepts no commandments.

I don't have any fear of death. I do, however, have an inordinate fear of becoming dependent on other people. To me, that's the severest test, not death.

My biggest fear in the world is going broke and having to depend on someone else again.

My hands are small, but they're not yours, they are my own... I am never broken.

It's good to take control of your valuable time and realize it's all right to say no.

It's good to pursue and live a fulfilling and desirable life than to live in a life that is expected and approved by another person's expectations, regardless of how closed and intimate they are to us.

I am the one who has to die when it's time for me to die. So let me live my life the way I want to.

Until you stand on your own two feet and take responsibly for your own life, you will never truly know how strong you really are.

Make sure that the choices you make are good for YOU, because YOU'RE the one who's going to have to live with them.

Don't try to maintain a relationship, just try to maintain yourself in a relationship!

Everyone is responsible for their own actions. so think twice before you go on blaming yourself for the mistakes made by others.