Top 100 Someone Else's Life Quotes
#1. 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
#2. Reading is awesome. Just escaping into someone else's life, into another world. In books, everything is possible.
Nick Lake
#3. 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
#4. The greatest tragedy is to live out someone else's life thinking it was your own.
David Whyte
#5. I can never resist telling people good news. I mean, why not brighten someone else's life too?
Sophie Kinsella
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. I do not see myself as a footnote to someone else's life.
Martha Gellhorn
#9. 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
#10. Using your own time to make someone else's life better is, like, the nicest thing you can do for anybody.
Karen Marie Moning
#11. Embrace your uniqueness. Time is much too short to be living someone else's life.
Kobi Yamada
#12. 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
#13. It's easy to watch someone else's life crash and burn, harder to watch your own accident up close.
Patrick Jones
#14. It's Not sacrifice if it's someone else's life you're giving away, it's just evil.
Veronica Roth
#15. 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
#16. Sometimes someone else's life can be the only thing that makes sense of your own.
Ali Shaw
#18. 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
#19. Codependence - Someone who lives someone else's life.
Suzanne Somers
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. When you peered into the windows of someone else's life, you could only guess what was going on.
Elin Hilderbrand
#24. We're married now. We're married.
You don't know when you're twenty-three.
You don't know what it really means to crawl into someone else's life and stay there. You can't see all the ways you're going to get tangled, how you're going to bond skin to skin.
Rainbow Rowell
#25. We live someone else's life without trying to understand and become what we are really designed to be
Sunday Adelaja
#26. The thing is not to follow a pattern. Follow your own pattern of feeling and thought. The thing is to accept your own life and not try to live someone else's life. Look, the thumbprint is not like any other, and the thumbprint is what you must go by.
Katherine Anne Porter
#27. When a person you love dies, it doesn't feel real. It's like it's happening to someone else. It's someone else's life. I've never been good with the abstract. What does it mean when someone is really truly gone?
Jenny Han
#28. You have to see everyone in relationship to you. Just because you understand the shit in someone else's life doesn't mean you don't stand up for your own
Chris Crutcher
#29. What is a business? It's simply an idea that makes someone else's life better
Richard Branson
#30. Your time on this earth is limited, don't live someone else's life, live by your vision
Steve Jobs
#31. It was difficult, but it was also rewarding. When you have a chance to see kids get better, everything makes it all worth it. All I wanted was to try to make a difference in my life and have a legacy in some way, but for something I had done in someone else's life.
Paul Brandt
#32. Everything we do impacts someone else's life.
Nicolas Cage
#33. How quickly someone else's life can enter through the cracks we don't know are there until this foreign thing is inside of us. We are more porous than we know.
Emily Ruskovich
#34. If it's one thing that I've learned this year it is to recognize and treasure the people who love you for who you are. Changing yourself to fit into someone else's life is never a good idea. People should love you for who you are, not who they want you to be. I
Blair Holden
#35. Why couldn't she be part of that family? rent a room in someone else's life.
Kiran Desai
#36. She closes her eyes but can't fall to sleep, and so instead she conjures up again the substance of the dream ... Awake it doesn't take, though; it feels like someone else's life and she like a voyeur, watching from the outside.
Paul Murray
#37. There are no beginnings, not even to stories. There are only places where you make an entrance into someone else's life and either stay or turn and go away.
Timothy Findley
#38. So that's it?" I say, stunned. "You throw information into someone else's life like a grenade and you walk away before it explodes?
Jodi Picoult
#39. Believe in yourself and be the source of joy in someone else's life.
Amit Ray
#40. To celebrate someone else's life, we need to find a way to look at it straight on, not from above with judgment or from below with envy.
Sharon Salzberg
#41. People say they want to read about life but that's not what they want at all. They want a version of life. Don't you realize, someone else's version of someone else's life is still fiction? It's still a story. But it has no imagination. That's what you people have done. You've murdered imagination.
Andersen Prunty
#42. I was scared. Do you know what it's like to hold someone else's life in
your hands? It's like playing God. Can you think of anything scarier than
that?
Sidney Sheldon
#43. It's no surprise that readers are better people. Having experienced someone else's life through abstract eyes, they've learned what it's like to leave their bodies and see the world through other frames of reference.
Anonymous
#44. When I talk to friends and editors about possible projects, especially about projects that might come with a significant cash advance, they usually suggest a biography. Sometimes I'm tempted, but the prospect of spending years researching and writing about someone else's life offends my vanity.
Michael Dirda
#45. Literature is such a profound and deep way to look into someone else's life, his mind, his hopes and thoughts. Books have opened so many doors for me, taking me to places where my normal life and its finite limits could never have.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#46. I wondered what the hell had convinced me to live at the end of someone else's life rather than live my own,
Jodi Picoult
#47. That person thought that wearing an ugly dress on the happiest day of someone else's life was just the beginning-the line you have to stand in to get to your own happiest day.
Rainbow Rowell
#48. Be yourself,
And take control of your own destiny.
There is nothing more disgraceful in life,
Than living someone else's life.
Mouloud Benzadi
#49. When I look at a person, or a character, it is in every case the beginning of an endless journey. And I don't suppose I know where that starts. I know that I have to, like every other person, make decisions and have opinions. But I'm real careful to not judge crassly or cheaply someone else's life.
William Hurt
#50. I want to take care of people. I want to help people. The maximum joy that I have is when I can create something that makes someone else's life lighter, brighter, or better.
Will Smith
#51. The thing about being catapulted into a whole new life
or at least, shoved up so hard against someone else's life that you might as well have your face pressed against their window
is that it forces you to rethink your idea of who you are. Or how you might seem to other people.
Jojo Moyes
#52. If you're not making someone else's life better, then you're wasting your time. Your life will become better by making other lives better.
Will Smith
#53. I want to feel what pressures other people feel. Experience the world guided by someone else's moral compass. See and hear and taste with senses formed in a completely different mold than mine. I want to see what it's like to live someone else's lie ... Someone else's life.
Michele Jaffe
#54. I wanted to seem completely invisible but whenever you're saying someone else's words and relaying the story of someone else's life, it's not you.
Uma Thurman
#55. Will someone else's life be brighter tomorrow, because of what you have done today?
William Arthur Ward
#56. When I was little, I was a voracious reader, and that really led me to acting as well. I loved being transported into someone else's life, and that's what reading provided me. I also really love to entertain people.
Autumn Reeser
#57. I'd never really planned on stealing someone else's life.
Richelle Mead
#58. The memories seem like snapshots from someone else's life.
Lauren Oliver
#59. All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here.
Jodi Picoult
#60. Or worse, he could be born perfect, and then, through some error she would never perceive, grow up and destroy someone else's life
for there are thousands of ways to destroy someone's life, Sara knew, but to improve someone's life, there are so few, so few!
Dara Horn
#61. Why so eager to jump in and direct someone else's life when you can't stick to your own goals and resolutions?
Richelle E. Goodrich
#62. That person has to be accountable for himself. I think that's what we have to do in society today is to be accountable for yourself. I think we have the tendency to always want to live someone else's life.
Herschel Walker
#63. No matter how crazed you get, no matter what pressures you're under, no matter who needs what by yesterday... Always remember: everything you do uses a portion of someone else's life.
Bill Jensen
#64. Those who can truly love, they're like candles; they don't mind sacrificing themselves for the sake of love. But the rest of us are candle holders. We love and appreciate the light of love, but are too afraid to burn ourselves down to light up someone else's life.
Uday Mukerji
#65. Do what you do and mean it every second of the day. If you don't, you're living someone else's life.
Corey Taylor
#66. There is no one on Earth quite like you. No one can compare to you. Three questions: Do you realize how special you are? Do you believe how special you are? Do you demonstrate to the world how special you are? Don't live your life trying to live someone else's life. Be you!
Clifton Anderson
#67. It was a relief to inhabit someone else's life for a while, to get her personal issues for a brief respite. In a play, she knew exactly how all her character's problems would be resolved. No matter how the cast performed, the end turned out the same. No questions, no worries, no unknowns.
Alexandra Robbins
#68. Being codependent means that when you die, someone else's life passes before your eyes.
Barbara Johnson
#69. Each soul has its own life plan. This means that we cannot live someone else's life.
Akemi G
#70. It was in its strangeness and in its familiarity an illustration of someone else's life going on in its own way, steeped in itself, its own business, its own dailyness, its own particular sorrow or joy, all of it more or less predictable
Alice McDermott
#71. By the time ordinary life asserted itself once more, I would feel I had already lived for a while in some other lifetime, that I had even taken over someone else's life.
Margaret Mahy
#72. I believe that we all have something to share with someone else that can better someone else's life.
J. R. Martinez
#73. All of us, whether or not we're celebrities, every one ought to spend part of their life making someone else's life better.
Jerry Springer
#74. a day without a disaster would be a day in someone else's life. - Bobbie Faye
Toni McGee Causey
#75. Do not live someone else's life and someone else's idea of what womanhood is. Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that's inside of you.
Viola Davis
#76. Never underestimate your ability to make someone else's life better - even if you never know it.
Greg Louganis
#77. We never know the quality of someone else's life, though we seldom resist the temptation to assume and pass judgement.
Tami Hoag
#78. I have made the best and happiest ending that I can in this world, made it out of the flax and netting and leftover trim of someone else's life, I know, but made it to keep the innocent safe and the guilty punished, and I have made it as the world should be and not as I have found it.
Amy Bloom
#79. You always envy someone else's life and, as a woman, you're always comparing your life to someone else's life.
Anna Camp
#80. Decide now that you will not spend your precious energy speculating about someone else's life and how it compares with yours.
Rob Bell
#81. I like to be prepared enough to be completely unprepared. I don't know if I make sense, but I have a fantasy of living someone else's life. And to do that perfectly, I need to prepare myself just as properly.
Nimrat Kaur
#82. You're a writer," she said. "You get to live someone else's life every time you write a book. But I'm stuck with mine. It's lonely.
Ava Sinclair
#84. True love is when you put someone else's life before yours.
Anonymous
#85. There, it was over. How was it so easy to disappear from someone else's life? Perhaps it was with the same ease that you enter it. A chance meeting, a few words exchanged, and a relationship begins. A chance falling out, a few words exchanged and that same relationship is over.
Antoine Laurain
#86. You have to realize that you don't have someone else's life and your never going to. You better start loving the one you got. Embrass the life you have and stop wishing that you could be someone else. Just stop all that and start saying "God here I am. Do what you want to do with me".
Joyce Meyer
#87. A random act of kindness, no matter how small, can make a tremendous impact on someone else's life.
Roy Bennett
#88. Personally I am always looking for God to show me where He would like me to give or make a difference in someone else's life. I wake up every day and ask God how He would like me to be a blessing to someone that day.
Joyce Meyer
#89. Follow your heart, Ithilnin," Albirich repeated. "Time is precious. Don't waste it living someone else's life.
Jess C. Scott
#90. It's no small thing - ending someone else's life. There should be some sort of gravity to that, shouldn't there? My insides are heavy, but it has nothing to do with what I did. It is only about what I have lost.
Paula Stokes
#91. Odd, how in the afterglow of someone else's life, your own looks so much brighter.
Ellyn Bache
#92. When you experience the joy of bringing joy into someone else's life, then you know what joy is.
Nathaniel Phillips
#93. How you expect the heaven, when you make someone else's life hell.
M.F. Moonzajer
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. 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
#97. 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
#98. Until you realize how easily it is for your mind to be manipulated, you remain the puppet of someone else's game.
Evita Ochel
#99. 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
#100. 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
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