Quotes About Living Life By Your Own Rules

#1. We human beings do a lot of dumb things, and war is certainly the dumbest.

Natalie Babbitt

#2. I know there's a principle of spirit. It works without space-time. I am subject to that principle, in spirit and in belief of body. Learn how spirit works, a few simple rules, living a perfect spiritual life is easy.

Richard Bach

#3. None of my life is based on how others think I should have lived it.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#4. Where is the fun of living if you are going to make yourself a slave to all sorts of petty rules? asked Patty wearily.

Jean Webster

#5. I realized that all my life, my values were based upon typical middle-class American values: hard work, doing good, living well, owning things, following the rules & being the best I can be ... but God clearly says, those are not MY values. I value justice, mercy & humility.

John Green

#6. Life is about making your own happiness - and living by your own rules.

Aimee Mullins

#7. In society, we have these unspoken rules of conduct, these 'shoulds.' Even though we pride ourselves on being a democracy, there are all these ways we say you 'should' behave. But what if you're living your life by the 'shoulds' and you're not really living your life?

Chris Noth

#8. If you intend to make a living at drawing, by all means learn it [the rules of perspective] now, and do not have them bothering you and your work for the rest of your life.

Andrew Loomis

#9. You can't go around being what everyone wants you to be, living your life through other people's rules, and expect to be happy and have inner peace.

Wayne Dyer

#10. There's a set of unspoken rules we live by when it comes to fighting. We can't help it. It comes from living in a civilized world. Even when you're fighting your hardest, somewhere deep down, you know how far you can go. But today the rules are gone. Today I fight not to win, but to destroy.

Neal Shusterman

#11. The Bible doesn't teach you to follow rules. It is a picture of Jesus. While words may tell you what God is like and even what he may want from you, you cannot do any of it on your own. Life and living are in him and in no other.

Wm. Paul Young

#12. Some point you had to risk the ridicule of the mob, of your own internalized voices, and try to see clearly what had been set in front of you in this life, and try to act on that as bravely and honestly as you could, no matter what kind of rules you'd previously been living by.

Roland Merullo

#13. The thing that I love about acting is the fact that I can help people feel things, know themselves or feel less alone. It's my form of expression, in the same way that someone might paint a picture or sing a song in that you're hoping that it moves somebody outside of their own way of thinking.

Naomi Watts

#14. The Law given from Sinai [The Ten Commandments] was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code.

John Quincy Adams

#15. Breathing in, I am aware of my heart. Breathing out, I smile to my heart and know that my heart still functions normally. I feel grateful for my heart.

Nhat Hanh

#16. Conditions have changed, but we are still operating financially by the rules established during the Industrial Revolution-rules based on creating more material possessions. But our high standard of living has not led to a high quality of life-for us or for the planet.

Joseph R. Dominguez

#17. You never know beforehand what people are capable of, you have to wait, give it time, it's time that rules, time is our gambling partner on the other side of the table and it holds all the cards of the deck in its hand, we have to guess the winning cards of life, our lives.

Jose Saramago

#18. Who me? God, no, I'm terrible ... " Then, just as an experiment, I say, "And, besides, I don't think I'm good-looking enough to be an actor."
Oh, that's not true! There are lots of actors who aren't good-looking ...

David Nicholls

#19. Truth should be the very breath of our life. When once this state in the pilgrim's progress is reached, all other rules of correct living will come without any effort, and obedience to them will be instinctive.

Mahatma Gandhi

#20. Life lesson number 12: As your life changes, change you rules accordingly. Nothing is set in stone when it comes to living.
-Park

Cheryl McIntyre

#21. While some rules are necessary and good for us, living a life based on others' rules, needs, and expectations can stifle your self-expression and creativity, and keep a lid on your potential.

Lauren Mackler

#22. Is there plenty of celebration in your life? How about your spiritual life? Is it an exercise in following rules and practices? Or does it look more like a joyous celebration?

Steve Goodier

#23. My photographs are a celebration of life, fun and the beautiful. They are a world that doesn't exist. A fantasy. Freedom is real. There are no rules. The life I wish I was living.

Ryan McGinley

#24. What with one thing and another, three years passed.

William Goldman

#25. As president, I will stand up to the great human rights tests of our time - in China, Russia, and the Middle East. We must send a signal to our allies and adversaries that America is back in the leadership business.

Carly Fiorina

#26. Other people's stories may become part of your own, the foundation of it, the ground it goes on.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#27. Sometimes all it takes to stop traffic is for that right pair of red pumps.

Tommy Ton

#28. Nobody on Earth can tell you how you should live your life. Nobody with any real authority anyway.

Dan Pearce

#29. Travel, of course, narrows the mind.

Malcolm Muggeridge

#30. Take the pleasure I'm giving you as a vow, pet. If you leave me, I will hunt you to the ends of the earth. There won't be a place you hide where I can't find you. I will never stop looking. I will never give up. I will never let you go when I can save you. - Mitchell Thorpe

Shayla Black

#31. One uproar after another, every day. Like the whole world's turned upside down. Don't you feel bad that you're missing out? The world isn't that easily turned upside down, Haida replied. It's people who are turned upside down. I don't feel bad about missing that.

Haruki Murakami

#32. It is always the exception that sets the rule.

Nadina Boun

#33. I'm not trying to follow a set of rules and stuff. I'm just living my life.

Joel Osteen

#34. Way up in my tree I'm sitting by my fire
Wond'rin' where in this world might you be
And knowin' all the time you're still roamin' the countryside
Do you still think about me?

Jimi Hendrix

#35. At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules.

Charlize Theron

#36. This world seems to have different rules from the other world I've been living in all of my life. I wonder if I'll ever learn them.

Lauren Graham

#37. I've thought about living the koala's life, but you may need to petition the government quarantine rules to make it happen. Quarantine would make me extra grumpy.

Grumpy Cat

#38. The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick.

L. Frank Baum

#39. There were no rules to grief, but there were rules to life, and in those first few days, the requirements of the living demanded I keep going.

Mary E. Pearson