Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
Tis' better to live your own life imperfectly than to imitate someone else's perfectly.
Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.
One of the things that my parents have taught me is never listen to other people's expectations. You should live your own life and live up to your own expectations, and those are the only things I really care about it.
Champion the right to be yourself; dare to be different and to set your own pattern, live your own life, and follow your own star.
All teachings are mere references. The true experience is living your own life. Then, even the holiest of words are only words.
As to conforming outwardly and living your own life inwardly, I do not think much of that.
Being a failure at living your own life as best as you can is better than being a success living the life somebody else says you should live.
You describe your reality in the highest resolution even when it’s a nightmare and in doing so, you live your own life, not a cliche others have formulated for you.
There is something unnatural about marriage. These two people are not going to be the same people in a few years. The trick is to live your own life while sharing the same space.
If you want physical peace, stop the struggle of life. Don't push the body beyond its fatigue point. Rest the body enough. Exercise it enough. Then let it be. ... If you want peace with others, don't fight them. Go your own way. Live your own life. If some walk with you, fine.
The freedom of America is the freedom to live your own life and take your own chances.
Don't depend on a guy for your happiness. You have to live your own life and do your own thing. That's when good things come around - when you do your own thing and you're not worried about a man. It will happen in due time.
If you get raised up having everything you want and then get put out in the world and try to live your own life, you've never had anything to train you how to live.
In a lot of ways, it was a huge relief, not being a member of a troupe, being able to make your own decisions and kind of live your own life.
'I think as a guy you need a little bit to be on your own from early on, to start to live your own life, and try to understand what is going on around you, you have to be able to survive...
Liberty may be an uncomfortable blessing unless you know what to do with it. That is why so many freed slaves returned to their masters, why so many emancipated women are only too glad to give up the racket and settle down. For between announcing that you will live your own life, and the living of it lie the real difficulties of any awakening.
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