Own Life Quotes

Intentional living is the art of making our own choices before others' choices make us. — Richie Norton

It doesn't make you a bad person, you know-to want to live your own life. — Alexandra Bracken

The mysteries of universe are revealed to those who seek to know the truth of their own existence first. — Anjali Chugh

If you want victory in your life you must learn to be alone with your own thoughts and cause them to be correct thoughts! — Sandra Hersey

We may end up with a life deferred by the business of its own collection. — Sherry Turkle

Not to be bound by rules, but to be creating one's own rules-this is the kind of life which Zen is trying to have us live. — D.T. Suzuki

We are chained by our own control. Life is nothing more than finding the key that unlocks every part of our soul. — Shannon L. Alder

He loved the woods, where it seemed to him that every life was secret, including his own. — Wendell Berry

Have your own life before you become somebody's wife. — Beyonce Knowles

Mercy is a source of life because we breathe our own spirits through it into the lives of others. — Eugene Kennedy

The simple law of the universe is that you create your own reality — Julian Pencilliah

You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend, or not. — Isabel Allende

There is a force of love present everywhere and it can be trusted to bring your own life into order and peace. — Deepak Chopra

Most of my life I have needed more time to be on my own. — P.D. James

... but how come I can give advice and cheer up other people, but I can't do that with my own life. I don't understand it. — Rae Earl

Life is about choices; it's not about excuses. Excuses only trap us into believing that we cannot take control of our own lives. — Michael Gerber

You must personally accept the responsibility of improving your own life. — Chogyam Trungpa

Why, Robert Singh often wondered, did we give our hearts to friends whose life spans are so much shorter than our own? — Arthur C. Clarke

Do not waste the moment of your life which comes together with death because you will bitterly regret the alienation of your own self. — Sorin Cerin

You want to be in the driver's seat of your own life because if you are not, life will drive you. — Oprah Winfrey

As far as my own life goes, I don't buy into the Hollywood scene. — Steve Schirripa

There is enough heartache and sorrow in this life without our adding to it through our own stubbornness, bitterness, and resentment. — Dieter F. Uchdorf

Choose your own attitude. Don't let another choose it for you. — Susan Gaddis

It's pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles. — Taylor Swift

You ought to stop listening to stereotypes and start forming your own opinions. — Stephanie Perkins

Her own fearless audacity had surprised her, though she knew she had been born for more than her life had asked of her thus far. — Donna Russo Morin

The movement of life has to rest in its own music. — Rabindranath Tagore

To expect this larger-than-life, holier-than-thou sort of existence from us is not possible. We as much want to make our own mistake as a man does. — Kangana Ranaut

Any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own and makes it so much the larger and better in every way. — John Muir

Why live unless you live large? Death is a reality, always present, waiting, with that in mind, live today, it is everything you own. — Jason Goodman

The end may be defined as life in accordance with nature or, in other words, in accordance with our own human nature as well as that of the universe. — Zeno Of Citium

Do you wait for things to happen, or do you make them happen yourself? I believe in writing your own story. — Charlotte Eriksson

There's a point when your tape of life runs off the reel and there's this stillness of your own - I got to know myself. — Melissa Etheridge

Humanity? Don't be silly. I know. It is knocking down your fellow-men for the sake of your own happiness. — Osamu Dazai

Why can't I have my own life?! — Suzanna J. Linton

Those who say life is knocking them down and giving them a tough time are usually the first to beat themselves up. Be on your own side. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

The happy life is a life that is in harmony with its own nature. — Seneca.

You know your life is over when you own a lawnmower. — Todd Skinner

At every person's birth, he or she is assigned a certain daemon by his own star, a guardian of life to help with his destined task. — Marsilio Ficino

Make your own recovery the first priority in your life. ROBIN NORWOOD — Julia Cameron

She clutched him, her fingers digging in like she needed to gather parts of him to act as her own second skin for the rest of her life. — Melina Marchetta

A girl should never be stupid unless she is pretending to be stupid to save her own life, Lina said. — Sister Souljah

To one's own fault, twas life's giving.
To one's understanding, twas his choosing. — Isabel Aanya Leigh

Resolve to throw off the influences of any unfortunate environment, and to build your own life to order. — Napoleon Hill

THE GREATEST RISK IN LIFE IS TO WAIT FOR AND DEPEND UPON OTHERS FOR YOUR OWN SECURITY. — Denis Waitley

Against Self-Pity
It gets you nowhere but deeper into
your own shit
pure misery a luxury
one never learns to enjoy. — Rita Dove

She cried over the messed up messy mess of her life, over her parents' failures and her own shortcomings. — Stephanie Bond

He liked having the boy there beside him. Like some bright flame of life still burning bright beside the spent lamp of his own spirit. — Paul Kearney

I've found in my own life that if my writing isn't going well, not much else will. It is the one constant, the key to everything else. — Sarah Dessen

Spirit is the life that itself cuts into life: with its own torment it increases its own knowledge. Did you already know that? — Friedrich Nietzsche

Can you see the hand of God in your own life? — Neil L. Andersen

I know the youth of India. They are not merely asking for things. The youth wants to stand of their own feet and live a life of pride and dignity. — Narendra Modi

Imaginative writers often project their own monsters and meanings on basic facts. — Christopher Bram

She was forced to face how cold and unlike her fantasy her own marriage was? Or did she suddenly just get tired of living this long-ass life? Joella — Dennis Lehane

They have their own version of truth, and that's the only one people will hear. — Victoria Aveyard

Life is a force in its own right. It is a new element. And it has altered the Earth. It covers Earth like a skin. — Frans Lanting

When you realize that every stressful moment you experience is a gift that points you to your own freedom, life becomes very kind. — Byron Katie

No man knows till he experiences it, what it is like to feel his own life-blood drawn away into the woman he loves. — Bram Stoker

I've never judged anybody by how they look or how they dress. I basically judge them on their character. And that's how I lead my own life. — Larry The Cable Guy

He can't even run his own life, I'll be damned if he'll run mine. — Jonathan Edwards

Let me tell you: the only way to get rid of dragons is to have one of your own. — Eugene Shvarts

Sometimes you have to keep things very close to your own chest in your life, or this life. — Mary, Crown Princess Of Denmark

You can't know how weird your own life is until you get some distance on it. Everything seems mundane or boring or embarrassingly small. — Kyle Minor

We all have our own deserts. They may not be the same as my desert, but we all have to cross them to find a purpose in life and be free. — Yeonmi Park

There are billions of people in the world, and each one of them has their own view of reality. — Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

And a weak person will find it easier to take what someone else has earned rather than risk working hard and achieving something on his own. — Judy Duarte

The genesis of life, unfold before us, the mere essence of our being ... ... tarnished.
Mankind can no longer survive on its own. — Robin Alleyna

Every eye makes its own perception. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Your life is not meant to be lived in a way to satisfy someone's expectation out of you! Live your life in your own way. — Avijeet Das

If there were no heaven and no hell, I would still want to be a Christian because of what it does for our homes and our own families in this life. — Billy Graham

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. — Charlie Parker

Our lives are destined by the determination of our own principles. — Saleem Durrani

Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire. — Wendell Berry

You collect impressions from people, from life, from your own daydreams. — Shakira

Nothing was really against her will. She got to own her life - her actions, her feelings and her decisions. So, — Serita Stevens

I am unlimited in my own ability to create the good in my life. — Louise Hay

Until you take charge of your own life, things don't happen. — Suzanne Braun Levine

You are a unique individual with your own special features that you need to carry on your life mission — Sunday Adelaja

Become an ambassador of peace in your own life. — Bryant McGill

Learn to enjoy your own company. You are the one person you can count on living with for the rest of your life. — Ann Richards

Your own brain ought to have the decency to be on your side! — Terry Pratchett

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. — Napoleon Hill

It's the basic condition of life to be required to violate our own identity. — Philip K. Dick

Do your own thing on your own terms and get what you came here for — Oliver James

God has given us our own unique paths to follow in life. What's interesting is no one's journey is ever the same. — Courtney Brooks

t can be easily argued that all living things are conscious in some aspect, but many would agree that advanced consciousness like our own is unique. — Kat Lahr

The Insignificance of Man is a congenial theme; my own insignificance is a sore point. — Mason Cooley

When you're growing up you need your parents, but you don't want to be associated with them because you're trying to have your own life. — Rick Nielsen

I fought all my life for women to make their own choices, in their personal and professional lives. I made mine. — Hillary Clinton

Some of us aren't meant to belong. Some of us have to turn the world upside down and shake the hell out of it until we make our own place in it. — Elizabeth Lowell

Don't sit back and be a bystander of your own life — Caprice Crane

I had never realized how much I needed the attention of others to confirm my own presence. — Jerry Spinelli

All my life I have felt events to be the result of my own sins. — Jane Gardam

Creations, whether they are children, poems, or organizations, take on a life of their own. — Starhawk

Take it from your own life, write what you believe in. — Cameron Crowe

The sense of your own experience will grow along with your confidence. — Auliq Ice

Run the race of life at your own pace. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I do need you, because I love you and you make me happy. I can live my life just fine on my own, but it will be so much better if I live it with you. — Shannon Stacey

Do you ever get the feeling that your life isn't really your own, and you've just sort of let things happen to you? — Alice Hoffman

Apparently, he was too busy living his own life to be a character in the imaginary novel that was mine. — Melissa Kantor