Top 100 Someone Else S Life Quotes
#1. Blaze your own trail in life. Make your own choices and make your own mistakes. It's the only way you'll find your own happiness, not someone else's.
M. Leighton
#2. In life you must often choose between getting a job done or getting credit for it. In science, the most important thing is not the ideas you have but the decision which ones you choose to pursue. If you have an idea and are not doing anything with it, why spoil someone else's fun by publishing it?
Leo Szilard
#3. Success is the accomplishment of any number of possible aims, dreams, aspirations or goals. It's very personal and unique to you. Your greatest desire could be someone else's idea of hell; you might want to be an award-winning chef while your best friend hates cooking.
Nigel Cumberland
#4. One of the greatest feelings in life is the conviction that you have lived the life you wanted to live-with the rough and the smooth, the good and the bad-but yours, shaped by your own choices, and not someone else's.
Michael Ignatieff
#5. Until you realize how easily it is for your mind to be manipulated, you remain the puppet of someone else's game.
Evita Ochel
#6. Walking a mile in someone else's shoes isn't as much about the walk or the shoes; it's to be able to think like they think, feel what they feel, and understand why they are who and where they are. Every step is about empathy.
Toni Sorenson
#7. Rejection Is God's Protection
When someone rejects or breaks up with you, it may be a blessing in disguise. The person was not right for you. Or maybe you would have eventually been miserable with them. Now the door is open for someone else much better to come into your life.
Pamela Cummins
#8. Everyone is involved in experiments of one kind of another. Everything we do in life is the result of our own or someone else's experimentation. My experiment simulations are just conducted in a more honest format." Dillon explained.
Jill Thrussell
#9. The power we hold comes with an added responsibility to inspire through words or actions and build someone else's life. Our power definitely does not lie in zapping others of their powers.
Tina Sequeira
#10. It's not an easy thing to tell the girl that you love more than life itself that you're going to marry someone else.
Mary E. Pearson
#11. If you want to be like someone, there's nothing stopping you from modeling yourself after someone else. You don't have to BE them - that's not your job in life. Your job in life is not to be someone else. You just want to be as good at being you as that person is at being them.
Jenna Marbles
#12. I hated being volunteered. The problem with my life was that it was someone else's idea.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#13. We can never truly or completely know or feel what someone else thinks. This is why we must leave the judging to the only One who can know another person's heart.
Toni Sorenson
#14. So if the ties that bind ever do come loose
Tie them in a knot like a hangman's noose
Cause I'll go to heaven or I'll go to hell
Before I'll see you with someone else.
The Band Perry
#15. The only reason a man should ever pick up a sword was to protect those he loved, not to willfully take the life of someone else's beloved.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#16. Reading is awesome. Just escaping into someone else's life, into another world. In books, everything is possible.
Nick Lake
#17. Seems to me there's not much time to read about other people's lives and live your own while you're at it. If I have to choose, and I reckon I do, I'll choose living my own life over reading summat about someone else's.
Sophie Hannah
#18. Transmitting one's flaws [through procreation] to someone else is a crime. I could never consent to give life to someone who would inherent my ailments.
Emile M. Cioran
#19. I would say of characters I've created, the one I've felt the most connected to emotionally was Adam Austin from 'The Prophet.' I think it was the connection to the idea that one decision you make innocently enough can have very serious, drastic consequences for someone else's life.
Michael Koryta
#20. Whenever we find that our religious life is making us feel that we are good - above all, that we are better than someone else - I think we may be sure that we are being acted on, not by God, but by the devil.
C.S. Lewis
#21. The greatest tragedy is to live out someone else's life thinking it was your own.
David Whyte
#22. Please don't miss me too much. Please don't be too sad. Find someone else to love, because you have much love to give and it's a gift that shouldn't be wasted. You , Jesse, were the rose that made my life sweet.I will wait for you in heaven.
Lurlene McDaniel
#23. You are the main character in the story of your life, but other people are the main characters of their own lives. And sometimes you can find healing just by playing a supporting role in someone else's experience.
Timothy Kurek
#24. Beneath this warm flesh beats the heart of a compassionate man, one who's fought his whole life to fulfill his people's dream. Just because you feel the need to lean on someone, to accept someone else's strength for a little while doesn't make you weak.
Kylie Griffin
#25. Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else's dreams?
Tim Burton
#26. If you just stick your big toe in the water when it comes to helping someone else, you'll get one big toe's worth of life change.
Sue Miller
#27. You can't live your life for someone else, and you can't let someone else tell you how to live your life. People spend so much time judging the shit out of each other - it's a waste of energy.
Dannika Dark
#28. You always know the truth, because when you cut yourself or someone else with it, there's always a bloody show.
Stephen King
#29. She shrugged. You can be happy for someone else's good fortune, but that doesn't mean you forget your own bad luck.
Jodi Picoult
#30. Any saxophone player will have those influences come through in their music in a very different way. I can listen to the same 10 sax players as someone else for my entire life, and we'll both play completely differently. That's the beauty of being a musician.
Kenny G
#31. Public transit situates us so that we are given license to accept what's right in front of us, but will likely arouse our desire to compare our narrative to someone else's, to give ourselves permission to speculate upon a person's private space, or life, with no fear of recourse or punishment.
Julie Wilson
#32. It was such a light, freeing feeling to not base her life on someone else's opinion of her.
Cindi Madsen
#33. I can never resist telling people good news. I mean, why not brighten someone else's life too?
Sophie Kinsella
#34. When you go to the theater, you are slipping out of your life into someone else's imaginary world.
Robert Krulwich
#35. Are you repeating someone else's narrative, taking it for granted? Talk therapy sessions and 12-step recovery shares help develop the ability to present a coherent life narrative through the safe structure of clear rules of communication that support healthy self-expression and self-awareness.
Alexandra Katehakis
#36. So is jealousy natural? It depends. Fear is certainly natural, and like any other kind of insecurity, jealousy is an expression of fear. But whether or not someone else's sex life provokes fear depends on how sex is defined in a given society, relationship, and individual's personality.
Christopher Ryan
#37. You were born to be real, not to be perfect. You are here to be you, not to live someone else's life.
Ralph Marston
#38. I consider myself a person like everyone else, and I take my time writing my records because I feel like it captures more of who I am. You have a much greater chance of hitting on themes and points ... that could play into someone else's life in a larger way.
Andrew McMahon
#39. Someone's got to break the glass ceiling, and once it's broken, everybody else comes clamouring up behind.
Helen Clark
#40. I do not see myself as a footnote to someone else's life.
Martha Gellhorn
#41. For the love of God. Fight for what you want.Get hurt. Cry, Scream. Screw up. Fall in fucking love.But do it brcause you're doing what you wanted to, not because someone else told you it's what you're supposed to do.
Kenzie Cade
#42. Life is about creating your own world, your own joy.
Life is not about living in someone else's world or playing with someone else's toy.
Debasish Mridha
#43. Life's not about the moments of pleasure you, yourself can experience. It's about pleasurable moments you share with someone else that really matter.
Tammy Falkner
#44. Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
Cullen Hightower
#45. If you can't participate in someone else's good fortune and show them love. How can you get offended when they don't partake in yours. Good fortunes are made to be enjoyed. Like a old wise pimp will say "Don't hate, participate.
J. Wrice Sr.
#46. It was one thing to sacrifice your own life for someone else's. It was another thing entirely to bring into the mix a third party - a third party who knew you, who trusted you implicitly.
Jodi Picoult
#47. To live is to be someone else. Feeling is impossible if we feel today as we felt yesterday: to feel today the same thing we felt yesterday is not to feel at all
it's merely to remember today what we felt yesterday, since today we are the living cadaver of yesterday's lost life.
Fernando Pessoa
#48. Too much of my life feels like this already- trying to recycle something old into something new and better, disguising someone else's trash as some fresh, shiny thing.
Jennifer Niven
#49. You can't live someone else's expectations in life. It's a recipe for disaster.
Bear Grylls
#50. Influence often isn't noticed until it blossoms later in the garden of someone else's life. Our words and actions may land close to home, or they may be carried far and wide.
Elizabeth Price Foley
#51. Using your own time to make someone else's life better is, like, the nicest thing you can do for anybody.
Karen Marie Moning
#52. Embrace your uniqueness. Time is much too short to be living someone else's life.
Kobi Yamada
#53. What happens to the spiritual life of a young girl who is made to understand, consciously or subconsciously, that she has no place in the spiritual domain except as a consumer of someone else's God?
Joan D. Chittister
#54. I've always liked the idea of memoirs, going into someone else's life, going through someone else's day and getting out of your own head.
Isabel Gillies
#55. It's easy to watch someone else's life crash and burn, harder to watch your own accident up close.
Patrick Jones
#56. Tis' better to live your own life imperfectly than to imitate someone else's perfectly.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#57. Don't live like there's no tomorrow, that's stupid. But live your life like it's a story that you would want to tell someone else. A little fun, a little exciting, a little sexy, and always off key.
Philip DeFranco
#58. My platform might be a little bigger than someone else's, but everyone has a purpose. For me, that purpose in my life right now is soccer. There's a cool, personal testimony that goes along with it.
Tobin Heath
#59. There are times when it will go so wrong that you will barely be alive, and times when you realise that being barely alive, on your own terms, is better than living a bloated half-life on someone else's terms.
Jeanette Winterson
#60. Let's only care about the place where we are.
There's beauty enough in being here and not anywhere else.
If there's someone beyond the curve in the road,
Let them worry about what's past the curve in the road,
That's what the road is to them.
Alberto Caeiro
#61. We come into this world alone. You're going to die alone. That's the way it is.
I think a really great interpretation of love is: feeling alone with someone else.
The times in my life, if you want to qualify as "being in love", when you feel almost like being alone with company.
Chris Evans
#62. You are being suffocated by tradition ... Why don't you say, 'I am going to build a life for myself, for my time, and make it a work of art'? Your life isn't a work of art
it's a thirdhand Victorian whatnot shelf, complete with someone else's collection of seashells and hand-carved elephants.
Kurt Vonnegut
#63. And just because your life isn't as awful as someone else's, that doesn't mean it doesn't suck. You can't compare how you feel to the way other people feel. It just doesn't work. What might look like the perfect life - or even an okay life - to you might not be so okay for the person living it. God,
Michael Thomas Ford
#64. It's Not sacrifice if it's someone else's life you're giving away, it's just evil.
Veronica Roth
#65. Virtually all of life's ills boil down to mindlessness. If you can understand someone else's perspective, then there's no reason to be angry at them, envy them, steal from them.
Ellen Langer
#66. I so envied the world around me. Don't get me wrong, I loved my own life too, but that didn't stop me from wishing I could close my eyes and slip into someone else's life. You know, explore the world with different eyes, a different heart.
Marilyn Grey
#67. The average person can look at someone in public life and say they have it all, but they might be struggling. Or you may think another person has more apparent challenges, but she's deeply grateful for her life. I don't think anyone can judge what having it all means for someone else.
Ivanka Trump
#68. The only advice [for new writers and poets] I can offer is to be yourself: not the self someone else wants you to be, but the self you are. Enjoy yourself and your life. But most of all travel and eat. That's how we learn.
Nikki Giovanni
#69. We need to finally accept that all sentient creatures are deserving of basic rights. I define basic rights as this -the ability to pursue life without having someone else's will involuntarily forced upon you.
Moby
#70. Failure does not exist. Failure is simply someone else's opinion of how a certain act should have been completed. Once you believe that no act must be performed in any specific other-directed way, then failing becomes impossible.
Wayne Dyer
#71. Discipline yourself so that all expectations, and inspiration, begin with your core values before relying on someone else's to better your life.
Steven Cuoco
#72. Have you thought about what will happen when you start living the life that's right for you, instead of the one you promised to live for someone else?
Tamara Lush
#73. Sometimes someone else's life can be the only thing that makes sense of your own.
Ali Shaw
#75. Imagine that we're new and you're trying to impress me, because at the rate you're going, soon that will become someone else's right.
Crystal Woods
#76. You may wonder why a question of manners has got me so exercised. It's because I believe in a simple rule. If you see a person you know behave unreasonably to someone else, you can bet your last pound that before long he'll be behaving like that to you.
Daniel Finkelstein
#77. Romantic love is not a concept that I'm familiar with or interested in familiarizing myself with. Love is for the weak, everyday people looking for soul mates, a partner to witness their life. There's nothing in my life that I wish for someone else to witness.
Anonymous
#78. It may sound like a mess, but sometimes mess can be okay, mess can be fine. Sometimes mess is just another word for living your life as real you, not someone else's version of what they think you should be.
Terence Blacker
#79. My greatest fear in life isn't dying. It's being the source of someone else's suffering.
V.E Schwab
#80. I think the best content on BuzzFeed is something you share with someone else in your life, and it connects you to them. And that's a big part of what e-mail's about as well.
Jonah Peretti
#81. I just love jumping into someone else's life. It is a relatively cheap way to experience things you would be too scared to contemplate in your own life.
Dougray Scott
#82. Fiction is a particular kind of rhetoric, a way of thinking that I think can be useful in your life. It asks you to image the world through someone else's eyes, and it allows you to try to empathize with situations that you haven't actually experienced.
Dan Chaon
#83. Someone Else's words can detour your potential!
John Di Lemme
#84. Don't be defined by someone else's definition of you.
Toni Sorenson
#85. Where focus goes, energy flows. And if you don't take the time to focus on what matters, then you're living a life of someone else's design.
Tony Robbins
#86. It scares you to think of having someone else's heart in your hands when you can't even manage your own life. I know
Andrew Diamond
#87. Codependence - Someone who lives someone else's life.
Suzanne Somers
#88. The energy you'll expend focusing on someone else's life is better spent working on your own. Just be your own idol.
Sophia Amoruso
#89. It is easier to be a mere performer and not to make serious decisions, to live with an assistance of someone else's mind and obey someone else's command when you are a person of victim mentality
Sunday Adelaja
#90. We choose for our selves what's right or wrong ... but when we make mistakes we blame someone else(parents)
Meena Khan
#91. It is better to fail at your own life than to succeed at someone else's.
Andre Gide
#92. Our work is to make ourselves visible in the world. This is the soul's individual journey, and the soul would much rather fail at its own life than succeed at someone else's.
David Whyte
#93. Wisdom is creating your own opinion. Everyone else is following someone else's opinion.
Debasish Mridha
#94. It's the hardest thing in the world to put yourself in someone else's place, try to really feel what they feel, figure out why they do the things they do. Especially when it's easier to stick a label on something. Or someone.
David Baldacci
#95. I just don't want to come down to that level of society ... .the ones who sit by their televisions, drink their beer, their guts fat, vicariously living someone else's life, in a destructive way. I want a positive way.
Miki Dora
#96. Parenthood offers many lessons in patience and sacrifice. But ultimately, it is a lesson in humility. The very best thing about your life is a short stage in someone else's story.
Michael Gerson
#97. I live life by my own terms. Otherwise, what's the point? I march to someone else's orders, than I'm living someone else's life. I'm not gonna waste my time worrying about what other people think. I do my thing, they do theirs, and everyone's happy.
Mia Storm
#98. I consider the possibility that I've been right and wrong my whole life. I was right to want to be beautiful and sexy; I was just wrong to have accepted someone else's idea of what those words mean.
Glennon Doyle Melton
#99. The moral of the tale is, don't live for the approval of others. The real you is here to find out the secret of life, not t satisfy someone else's opinion.
Deepak Chopra
#100. Getting loved by yourself is the best thing that can happen to you. After all your heart is a part of you. Before being someone else's.
Minhal Mehdi
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