My Own Life Quotes - Page 4

• ...until that moment I had not understood that this was a story about lonely people, about absence and loss, and that that was why I had taken refuge in it until it became confused with my own life, like someone who has escaped into the pages of a novel because those whom he needs to love seem nothing more than ghosts inhabiting the mind of a stranger.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Lonely, Confused, Taken

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.172, Penguin

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• I believe in me, in my view of the world. I believe in my responsibility for my own destiny, guilt for my own sins, merit for my own good deeds, determination of my own life. I don't believe in miracles, I believe in hard work.

  Philippa Gregory

  Determination, Believe, Responsibility

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• In my own life, as winters turn into spring, I find it not only hard to cope with mud but also hard to credit the small harbingers of larger life to come, hard to hope until the outcome is secure. Spring teaches me to look more carefully for the green stems of possibility; for the intuitive hunch that may turn into a larger insight, for the glance or touch that may thaw a frozen relationship, for the stranger's act of kindness that makes the world seem hospitable again.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Kindness, Spring, Winter

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• The Bhagavad Gita—that ancient Indian Yogic text—says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else’s life with perfection. So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoroughly.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Destiny, Perfection, Looks

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.100, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I exist, I am, I am here, I am becoming, I make my own life and no one else makes it for me. I must face my own shortcomings, mistakes, transgressions. No one can suffer my non-being as I do, but tomorrow is another day, and I must decide to leave my bed and live again. And if I fail, I don't have the comfort of blaming you or life or God.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Mistake, Here I Am, Suffering

  LEO BUSCAGLIA, PH.D. (1982). “LIVING, LOVING & LEARNING”

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• I have in my own life merely carried to the extreme that which you have never ventured to carry even halfway ; and what's more, you've regarded your cowardice as prudence, and found comfort in deceiving yourselves. So that, in fact, I may be even more "alive" than you are. Do take a closer look!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Comfort, Looks, Alive

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• I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart.

  Margaret Atwood

  Mean, Together, Stories

  Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Tent”, p.9, Anchor

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• I have my own life. And I am stronger than you know.

  Stevie Nicks

  Stronger, My Own, Knows

  Song: Leather and Lace, Album: Bella Donna

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• The last thing in the world that I would want to know, in my own life, is when I'm going to pass away.

  Vince Gilligan

  Passing Away, World, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• To know how other people behave takes intelligence, but to know myself takes wisdom. To manage other people's lives takes strength, but to manage my own life takes true power. If I am content with what I have, I can live simply and enjoy both prosperity and free time. If my goals are clear, I can achieve them without fuss. If I am at peace with myself, I will not spend my life force in conflicts. If I have learned to let go, I do not need to fear dying.

  John Heider

  Letting Go, Peace, Learning

  John HEider (2015). “The Tao of Leadership: Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching Adapted for a New Age”, p.33, Green Dragon Books

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• When making a film, I'm never concerned about whether the theme is new or whether it's been done before in cinema or not. I'm led to make films if there's a theme that interests me or I experience something in my own life that confronts me with something that I want to deal with.

  Michael Haneke

  Cinema, Done, Want

  "Michael Haneke Talks AMOUR, His Inspiration for the Film, His Casting Decisions, Physical and Emotional Demands of the Film and Shooting the Film in French". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. December 14, 2012.

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• When I started to write a tune, I just wrote the nearest at hand, which was what was happening in my own life.

  Jesse Harris

  Writing, Hands, Tunes

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• when the time came I would do battle with my mother for the right to sit at the center of my own life.

  Twyla Tharp

  Mother, Battle, Assertiveness

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• When I'm following what a character does in a book I don't have to think about my own life. Where I am. Why I'm here. My moms and my brother and my old man. I can just think about the character's life and try and figure out what's gonna happen. Plus when you're in a group home you pretty much can't go anywhere, right? But when you read books you almost feel like you're out there in the world. Like you're going on this adventure right with the main character. At least, that's the way I do it. It's actually not that bad. Even if it is mad nerdy.

  Matt de la Pena

  Mom, Brother, Book

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• I find in the Psalms much the same range of mood and expression as I perceive within my own life of prayer.

  Reverend Malcolm Boyd

  Prayer, Expression, Psalms

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• In my own life if I knew I was going to pass away I'd love to sit down and resolve every issue so I could go peacefully.

  John Travolta

  Issues, Passing Away, Down And

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• Sometimes when something really works well, it becomes a target, forty years for me, I've been a part, and I've loved every minute of it. My family has done so well with it. It's been a beautiful thing for me. I've saved lives with it and saved my own life several times. Through my loss of my son, it helped me every step of the way for two years solid, and here I am.

  John Travolta

  Life, Beautiful, Son

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• I am tired with my own life and the lives of those after me,
  I am dying in my own death and the deaths of those after me.

  T. S. Eliot

  Tired, Dying, Mortality

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.79, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I just needed to get out on my own, live my own life. And I did, and it's great.

  Walt Disney

  Bad Day, Needed, My Own

  "Fictional character: Adult Simba". "The Lion King", www.imdb.com. 1994.

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• You have to realize: OK, I don't know how to solve a political problem, I don't know how to solve the pollution problem... all I know is in my own life, I need to figure out some sense of purpose, I need to figure out how to be happy... and I'm willing.

  Jewel

  Political, Needs, Purpose

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• I understood....that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  American History, Periods, Understood

  Laura Ingalls Wilder, Rose Wilder Lane (1988). “A Little House sampler”, Univ of Nebraska Pr

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• 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.

  Tom Waits

  People, Facts, Life Is

  Interview with Amanda Petrusich, pitchfork.com. November 27, 2006.

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• You may be asking yourselves, 'Who is this man standing before us?' i would like to reply to that question with something absolutely certain about my own life: The man standing before you is a man who has been forgiven. A man who was, and is, saved from his many sins.

  Pope Francis

  Life, Men, Asking

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• As an activist, you do find yourself directed more toward public action. But I've always tried to use stories from my own life in my writing. It has always been clear to me that the stories of each other's lives are our best textbooks.

  Gloria Steinem

  Writing, Finding Yourself, Textbooks

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My very first products were hand-made, one-of-a-kind pins. When I finally realized I could repeat a phrase to make multiples, intellectuals gone bad, a fairly succinct description of my own life, seemed appropriate.

  Anne Taintor

  Hands, Firsts, Gone

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