Quotes about my life

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.

Douglas Adams

Our entire life consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

Jean Anouilh

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.

Ian Fleming

Everything happens for me, not to me.

Byron Katie

We don’t attach to things, we attach to our stories about them.

Byron Katie

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are, that is the fact.

Jean Paul Sartre

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Jean Paul Sartre

I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.

Oprah Winfrey

Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.

Oprah Winfrey

People see themselves as the center of the universe and judge everything as it relates to them.

Peace Pilgrim

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

Plato

I like men to behave like men, strong and childish.

Françoise Sagan

Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level.

Al Alvarez

'Tis said that wrath is the last thing in a man to grow old.

Alcaeus

Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.

Albert Bandura

The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilized man is so nervously anxious that personal privacy should be respected.

Anton Chekhov

Life is 10 percent of what happens to me and 90 percent of how I react to it.

John Maxwell

Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.

George Santayana

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

Arthur Schopenhauer

I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.

Harold Kushner

Any idiot can face a crisis, it is this day-to-day living that wears you out.

Anton Chekhov

Sometimes I would almost rather have people take away years of my life than take away a moment.

Pearl Bailey

Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.

Orson Scott Card

I write for the same reason I breathe, because if I didn't, I would die.

Isaac Asimov

It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.

Jean Cocteau

God made me and broke the mold.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Tell me whom you love, and I will tell you what you are.

Houssaye

Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.

Helen Hayes

I am no more humble than my talents require.

Oscar Levant

I want to help people live and not go to jail.

Angela Crawford

If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.

Audre Lorde

I'm curious about everything. Even subjects that don't interest me.

Alex Trebek

The only tyrant I will accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within me.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

The relatives of a suicide always take it in bad part, that he did not remain alive out of consideration for the family dignity.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Why is there never enough time to do it right but always time to do it over?

Anonymous