Paulo Coelho Quotes

There's an individual feminism, if you will, that you make your own choices.

No community dictates to any individual how to live their lives. You can criticize and you can push but people freely choose.

Most people don't lead their own lives - they accept their lives

I go where I'm stimulated. If I'm stimulated, I show up. As Mick Jagger sings: It's my life and I'll do what I want.

Autonomy... is freedom to develop one's self - to increase one's knowledge, improve one's skills, and achieve responsibility for one's conduct. And it is freedom to lead one's own life, to choose among alternative courses of action so long as no injury to others results.

Duty does not require any person to submit to the destruction of his personal ambitions and the right to live his own life in his own way.

Life is fairer when individuals are free to make their own decisions

In England, your life is your life.

Since no one but you can know what's best for you, government control can't make your life better.

I like characters that make choices and try to drive their own fate.

In a very slow way, I found my path. Even now, I think, 'If I can't do it my way, I'd rather not do it.'

You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself.

Your life is yours and yours alone. Rise up and live it.

You decide the things that ultimately you do. You have choices in this world, and that's how I live.

We all exercise agency in the choices we make.

I do have the freedom to choose what I want to do and I'll continue to do that.

I think people should be able to do what they want to do.

I have to believe that I know what's best for me. For instance, I choose all my songs. I never record anything I don't want to record. No one tells me what concerts to do.

I think people should do whatever they want to do. That's the point. Why should you care what other people think or say? You're not living in their pocket.

There's a flipside to this; if you as an individual have the right to live on your own terms, you must have the right to both succeed and fail on them.

No one makes me do anything I don't want to do.

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person. And to retain this right, you will have to be willing to take the social or external risks involved in ignoring pressures to do things the way others say they should be done

The isolation of every human soul and the necessity of self-dependence must give each individual the right, to choose his own surroundings.

Either you can do what others want, or you can do what you want to do. That's an easy call.

I think I've claimed the right to be any version of me that I want to be.