Quotes about Autonomy

There is one irrefutable law of the universe: We are each responsible for our own life.

Do things you've always wanted to do. You are the single most influence on your life.

So long as you're still worried about what others think of you, you are owned by them. Only when you require no approval from outside yourself can you own yourself.

The greatest lesson of life is that you are responsible for your life.

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

I am a born antinomian. I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. But while I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does, I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes.

Mr Hemingway does it extremely well. Nothing matters. Everything happens. One wants to keep oneself loose. Avoid one thing only: gettng connected up. Don't get connected up. If you get held by anything, break it. Don't be held. Break it, and get away. Don't get away with the idea of getting somewhere else. Just get away, for the sake of getting away. Beat it! "Well, boy, I guess I'll beat it." Ah, the pleasure in saying that

I wear my hat as I please, indoors or out.

I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.

But there… that night… that moment, it was the first time I'd ever been cut free.

If someone is bent on hurting herself, she'll find a way to do it. She was a grown woman; sooner or later, she was responsible for herself.

As long we insist on writing our own stories, he cannot write his living will onto our hearts.