“My life is about my journey, and your life is about your journey. You are completely unqualified to draw my map, and I am completely unqualified to draw yours. I hope you'll let me know all about the path you've found, so that I may judge it for myself against my own path, and have the freedom to choose between the two. But please don't try and drag me from my path on to yours, and I will be sure to return the favor.” KnowsLifeTryingMayTwoLife IsFoundMy OwnPathJourneyJudgingReturnPleaseDrawsLet MeFavorsMapsDragMy JourneyFreedom To ChooseUnqualified Author:Derek R. Audette
“One thing that's paramount in my life is that I am alone. I'm a loner. And yet I have many friends and I don't feel lonely. And I even like my own company. But when I'm alone, it's to read or write. I'm in my thoughts. Mostly I'm learning.” FeelsWritingLife IsMy OwnCompanyOne ThingLonelyMy ThoughtsLonerFeeling LonelyParamountMany Friends Author:Agnes Denes
“The fact is most of the things that people know about me are made up. My own life is backstage. So what you "know" about me is only what I allowed you to know about me.” PeopleKnowsMadeFactsLife IsMy OwnMy Own Life Author:Tom Waits
“I know, that since life is our most precious gift, and as far as we can be absolutely certain, it's given to us to live but once, let us so live we will not regret years of useless virtue, and inertia, and timidity, and ignorance, and in our last moments we can say: 'All my life, all my conscious energies, have been dedicated to the most noble cause in the world, the liberation of the human mind and spirit - beginning with my own'.” KnowsWorldYearsMindHumansHas BeensMomentsLastsLife IsSpiritCertainEnergyGivenCausesMy OwnVirtueIgnoranceRegretConsciousNobleLiberationUselessHuman MindDedicatedInertiaTimidityPrecious GiftsNoble Causes Author:Maya Angelou
“I have, for my own projected works and ideas, only the silliest and dewiest of hopes; no matter what, I am romantic enough or sentimental enough to wish to contribute something to life's fabric, to the world's beauty.... [S]imply to live does not justify existence, for life is a mere gesture on the surface of the earth, and death a return to that from which we had never been wholly separated; but oh to leave a trace, no matter how faint, of that brief gesture! For someone, some day, may find it beautiful!” WorldMayDoeIdeasMatterEnoughEarthBeautifulLife IsWishMy OwnExistenceReturnNo Matter WhatMereSurfaceJustifyGesturesFabricSentimental Author:Frank O'Hara
“Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into other lives, and I come back to my own with greater contentment.” Life IsMy OwnGreaterActivityLettersFilledContentmentMy Own LifeMomentary Book:A Woman of Independent Means Source: A Woman of Independent Means
“the process of a book's coming to life is not fully complete until your imagination meets mine on the page. The words evoke pictures and something altogether new is created, something different from the limits of my own skills and imagination. Something that is a marriage between your heart, mind, and body - and mine.” MindHeartBookDifferentBodyLife IsProcessImaginationMy OwnMinesSkillsLimitsPagesMind And BodyEvoke Book:Little Altars Everywhere: Novel, A Source: Little Altars Everywhere: Novel, A
“I think that this stage in my life is really, for a lot of reasons, pretty incredible. Being a solo artist and trying to take these bold steps on my own.” ThinkingTryingReasonLife IsArtistMy OwnStepsStageIncrediblesSolo Author:Nick Jonas
“It's taken me a long time to realize that my own life is far more interesting than any part I'll ever play.” LongPlayLife IsRealizingMy OwnInterestingTakenLong TimeMy Own Life Author:Diane Kruger
“What I use from my own life is not the facts, it's the emotion. It's how I felt about something. It has nothing to do with facts at all. You can get those anywhere. It's the feelings of childhood that you need to know.” KnowsNeedsFactsUseFeelingsLife IsLiteratureFeltMy OwnEmotionChildhoodMy Own LifeChildren's Literature Author:Judy Delton
“Vision connects you. But it also separates you. In my work, and my life, I feel a desire to merge. Not in terms of losing my own identity... but theres a feeling that life is interconnected, that theres life in stones and rocks and trees and dirt, like there is in us.” FeelsFeelingsLife IsDesireTermMy OwnVisionTreeRocksIdentityLosingStonesDirtInterconnected Author:Bill Viola