Quotes About It's My Life Not Yours

#1. I'm compelled to paint nearly every day. I just felt like making a painting, went out and bought paints and a canvas. Now it fulfills me creatively when I'm not doing music: it's something you can do by yourself and it's totally yours. It's a great adjunct to my life.

David Johansen

#2. Its not greener on the other side of the fence, its just a different shade of brown over there. Be happy with who you are and where you are in life.

D. Alyce Domain

#3. It's strange how in childhood it feels like tomorrow won't come until the end of forever, but in adulthood it feels like the end of forever could come tomorrow.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#4. To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.

Keith Richards

#5. The absolute value of love makes life worth while, and so makes Man's strange and difficult situation acceptable. Love cannot save life from death; but it can fulfill life's purpose.

Arnold J. Toynbee

#6. Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.

Nicole Krauss

#7. You reach a point in life where you realize that you might as well do what you need to do, because your being loved or not being loved is really a function of the people you encounter and not of yourself. That is an immensely liberating insight.

Erica Jong

#8. As men advance in life, all passions resolve themselves into money. Love, ambition, even poetry, end in this.

Benjamin Disraeli

#9. I am a sore loser. I've always been like that ever s'nce I started playin' sports and just life in general. I hate to lose and I play to win.

Snoop Dogg

#10. Having reached the term of his natural life; Mwould it not be truer to say, Having reached the term of his unnatural life?

Henry David Thoreau

#11. I don't know what kind of life you had, what sorts of joys and sorrows you experienced. But even if there was something that left you unfulfilled, you can't go around seeking it at other people's doors. Even if it is at the place you're most familiar with, and the sort of act that is your forte.

Haruki Murakami

#12. We learn about life by exploring the texture and depth of space that composes our private inner world. In solitude we revisit our wounded feelings, sins, doubts, and deepest despair, replay poignant memories of loved ones, project what we are becoming, and ascertain the purpose of our being.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#13. Of course, I don't act in an extreme fashion in my day to day life. I don't think any of us live do. I think we all have that reserve somewhere and we pull upon it when we need it.

Vin Diesel

#14. The whole business of your life overwhelms you when you live alone. One's stupefied by it. To get rid of it you try to daub some of it off on to people who come to see you, and they hate that. To be alone trains one for death.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#15. When one has seen something of the world and human nature, one must conclude, after all, that between people in like stations of life there is very little difference the world over.

James Weldon Johnson

#16. You're not damaged. But even if you were, I'd spend the rest of my life fixing you. My life isn't mine either,Caitlin. I can't explain it, but since I've met you, I've felt a connection to you so strong that I can't deny it. I don't want to deny it. So my life isn't my own. It's yours.

S.H. Kolee

#17. Nothing from the ocean is meant to survive on land forever.

Sarah Glenn Marsh

#18. Love actually is a great act of the will. It's when I say, "I desire your good, not for my sake but for yours". To love is to break out of the black hole of the ego and say, "My life is about you".

Bishop Robert Barron

#19. I realized I was afraid of living without him. How is it you have the right to destroy my life, I wanted to demand of him, but I'm not allowed a say in yours?
But I had promised.

Jojo Moyes

#20. And who the hell was that twiggy bitch?" As soon as it's out of my mouth I regret it. All my life I've had a body worth commenting on and if living in my skin has taught me anything it's that if it's not your body, it's not yours to comment on. Fat. Skinny. Short. Tall. It doesn't matter. But

Julie Murphy

#21. The reason that neither he nor I could predict my life, any more than you can predict yours, is that life is not linear; it is organic.

Ken Robinson

#22. I do not mean to mock or ridicule your life's work, for in one way at least it mimics my own: We have dedicated our lives to the pursuit of phantoms. The difference is the nature of those phantoms. Mine exist between other men's ears; yours live solely between your own.

Rick Yancey

#23. The boy continued with a desperate note. "You may have saved my life, but it is not my life any longer, it is yours.

Jettie Necole

#24. All my life I've had a body worth commenting on and if living in my skin has taught me anything it's that if it's not your body, it's not yours to comment on.

Julie Murphy

#25. You think that it's not magic that keeps you alive? Just 'cause you understand the mechanics of how something works, doesn't make it any less of a miracle. Which is just another word for magic. We're all kept alive by magic, Sookie. My magic's just a little different from yours, that's all.

Charlaine Harris

#26. How is it you have the right to destroy my life, I wanted to demand of him, but I am not allowed a say in yours?

Jojo Moyes

#27. It's not like I want to hop on a bandwagon, because I said it 15 years ago - bringing a child into your life who is not genetically yours is one of the most beautiful things you can do. But I'm also interested in having my own baby, too.

Tyra Banks

#28. -Evie...don't ever leave me. I don't know what I'd do.
-I'm not going anywhere,Adam.
-I...I just...I could never love someone as much as I love you...you're it for me. This is it. I don't want to be without you. You're my life. You have...all of me.
-And you have all of me. I'm yours.

Lisa J. Hobman

#29. You care for me a little bit, I do think," he admitted, "but I can't hang all my life on a little bit. You don't. You hang yours on Anne. You don't worry whether your relation with her is platonic or not, you only know it's big enough to hang a life on.

E. M. Forster

#30. Not unlike a selfie on Instagram or a well-crafted tweet, the computer screen projects the image I choose to portray. We all do it. My life - the glimpse obtained through Youtube - is no more perfect than yours. I'm no different.

Connor Franta

#31. When you're not with me, my life seems to stop as though I'm no longer real but merely a shadow. It's as though my soul leaves my body, to be with yours.

Christina Croft

#32. If that is wisdom, then I will never be wise. I do not want a life that has no place for you in it. You will come back with me and take the place that is yours in my heart. No obligations to the past stand in the way. We will marry.
Addis de Valence

Madeline Hunter

#33. But maybe...maybe you have to know where you come from, and what you are, before you run away to become something new.

Tanya Lloyd Kyi

#34. We aim for the practice of Christianity in their everyday life and dealings, and not merely the profession of its theology on Sundays.

Robert Baden-Powell

#35. The world's natural calamities and disasters-its tornados and hurricanes, volcanoes and floods-its physical turmoil-are not created by us specifically.
What is created by us is the degree to which these events touch our life

Neale Donald Walsch

#36. I had wanted life not to bother me too much, and had succeeded - and how pitiful that was.

Julian Barnes

#37. No matter how reclusive we tend to be, we picture the after-life as a community of souls. It is one thing to seek privacy in this life; it is another to face eternity alone.

Robert Breault

#38. Who are the executives, and what are the stories that are being released? Not just in movie theaters but online. When you watch Master of None, you're like, yes, this is real life to me. These are refreshing types of stories.

Daniel Radcliffe

#39. There is only one expert who is qualified to examine the souls and the life of a people and make a valuable report - the native novelist ... And when a thousand able novels have been written, there you have the soul of the people; and not anywhere else can these be had.

Mark Twain

#40. She says screens are the cigarettes of our age. They're toxic, and we're only going to realize the damage they're doing when it's too late.

Sophie Kinsella

#41. Sometimes life itself rewards our early investments.

Dixie Waters

#42. As I have encountered difficult moments in my own life, I have been privileged to learn from the great men I have come to know as a writer.

Candice Millard

#43. Oh, hon, it's the little courtesies that make life bearable, I find, wouldn't you agree?

Andrew Ashling

#44. Politics, poverty, riches, etc - these are but backdrops for the grand cinema, the opera: the glory of your life. Sure, change the backdrops, make them better, but it is this inside-ness that matters most. Nothing else, at the last breath, matters, but your very own poetry. The glory of living.

Alex Ebert

#45. The spiritual life is about becoming more at home in your own skin.

Parker J. Palmer

#46. You can look at a person's attitude and know what kind of thinking is prevalent in his life ... It's better to be positive and wrong than negative and right!

Joyce Meyer

#47. A purpose directed disciplined action always bring success.

Debasish Mridha

#48. Evils in the journey of life are like the hills which alarm travelers upon their road; they both appear great at a distance, but when we approach them we find that they are far less insurmountable than we had conceived.

Charles Caleb Colton

#49. Every day we, as a species, do so much to destroy Creation's ability to give us life. But that Creation continues to do everything in its power to give us life anyway. And that's true love.

Julia Hill

#50. AMELIA: To my friends, and family: You all may be batsh*t crazy, but even if I got to choose, I'd still choose to be with you. Life is fragile, and tomorrow is never a sure thing, so thanks for sharing your lives with me.....

Amelia Hutchins

#51. I find it very, very hard. He was part of the fabric of my life. We were kids together, and teenagers. We spent the whole of our lives with each other because of our music.

Robin Gibb

#52. I don't regret any decisions I've made in my life.

Gladys Knight

#53. Le mal de vivre, 'the pain of life.' Qu'll faut bien vivre ... 'that we must live with, or endure.' Vaille que vivre, this is difficult but it is something like 'we must live the life we have. We must soldier on.

Ruth Ozeki

#54. I grew up in Detroit. I was a teen father. I lived on welfare for three years. I have a brother serving life in prison, though I believe he's innocent.

Michael Eric Dyson

#55. The problem is a lot of people don't think. The general bloke just goes through life, gets a job, gets married and all that, and that's it.

Paul Simonon

#56. When life takes away, something of greater value is always given in return.

Michael J. Fox

#57. I'm very fun; I like to have fun, and I don't like to take life too serious, so of course everybody saw me as the outgoing fun one and the crazy one.

Kendra Wilkinson

#58. Let us all so live as we shall wish we had lived when we come to die; for that only is well, that ends well.

Benjamin Whichcote

#59. Life is short and a man should take pride in his work, even if his work makes him feel like a total loser

Tiffanie DeBartolo

#60. The day you let go of fear and instead embrace understanding, is the day you begin to live.

Leon Brown

#61. The day had been a slowly closing door. The rest of the world moved on out into the stream of life, while I was left stranded and forgotten on the riverbank, at low tide.

Lia Mills

#62. The only people who think life should be easy are lazy people

Robert Kiyosaki

#63. All news is an exaggeration of life.

Daniel Schorr

#64. I think that the power over death and life is the greatest strength that any person can have. It trumps sex and wealth. If I'm willing to die no one can master me.

Walter Mosley