All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific.
—Jane Wagner
I'm kind of jealous of the life I'm supposedly leading.
—Zach Braff
This is your life—not your parents', teachers' or significant other's. If you ever find yourself on a path that just doesn't feel safe anymore, you have every right to stop the car, get out—change your shoes and start walking.
—Jennifer Elisabeth
As I look back on my life, I realize that every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being re-directed to something better.
—Steve Maraboli
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.
—Albert Ellis
You can't live your life worried about dying all the time. If you do, you're dead already.
—Jennifer Echols in Going Too Far
Use plants to bring life.
—Douglas Wilson
Time is not your friend. It doesn't care if you live fast or die slow, if you are or if you aren't. It was here before you arrived and it will go on after you leave. Time doesn't care who wins or who loses, if your life span is full or empty, honorable or shameful. Time is indifferent.
—Laura Wiess in Leftovers
Seems like every time life starts straightening itself out, something's gotta go and happen.
—Jacqueline Woodson in Locomotion
It was time to let go of the mad desire to remember. It was time to start living whatever life would come. In the present, not the past.
—Adi Alsaid in Let's Get Lost
Not everything is supposed to become something beautiful and long-lasting. Sometimes people come into your life to show you what is right and what is wrong, to show you who you can be, to teach you to love yourself, to make you feel better for a little while, or to just be someone to walk with at night and spill your life to. Not everyone is going to stay forever, and we still have to keep on going and thank them for what they've given us.
—Emery Allen
It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.
—Garrison Keillor
You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
—Vernon Howard
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
—George Bernard Shaw
Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
—Zhuangzi