My Own Life Quotes

Women are extremely important shapers of my own life.

Sometimes minor characters are based on people I know, on friends of mine. But I’m not writing a thinly veiled version of my own life.

No, I’ll take responsibility for my own life, I am going to make a decision. And you know, to this day, I would raise flags on all public buildings to celebrate the chance I had to make that decision.

I did not see any way that I could possibly give birth to someone else and also give birth to myself. Far from feeling guilty, it was the first time that I had taken responsibility for my own life.

I have a very hard time with confrontation in my own life, and I end up being way too nice.

My music is a mix of everything, mostly my own life. I just write about things that mean something and that I can write about. There’s no point in pretending.

I can’t think of a single one of my plays that does not represent a coincidence between an external and an internal event. Something outside of me, outside even my own life, something I read in a newspaper or witness on the street, something I see or hear, fascinates me. I see it for its dramatic potential.

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.

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

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.

In my own life, I decided to leave meat off my plate in medical school, but was a bit slow to realise that dairy products and eggs are not health foods either.

Oh, I would love to be a motivational speaker. I have pulled myself out of a million potholes, and I can see the potholes ahead of me. That doesn’t mean that I could always do that so perfectly for my own life. I totally fall in potholes.

It seems to me that when confronted with the marvels of life and the universe, one must ask why and not just how. The only possible answers are religious. . . . I find a need for God in the universe and in my own life.

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

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.

Well I’m not a storyteller, as far as telling stories which relate to experiences in my own life. That’s not what I do. I write songs which have a narrative and attempt to make sense and tell a story – sure! But whenever I hear the word “storyteller” I think of a children’s musician.

Sometimes being away, on location, I feel like I’m away for much of my own life. I want to be better at staying connected.