My Own Life Quotes (page 3)

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• leaving
• health
• school

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. Neal Barnard

• life
• look
• imperfection

So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoroughly." (95) Elizabeth Gilbert

• life
• my own
• passenger

I don’t want to be a passenger in my own life. Diane Ackerman

• life
• failure
• feeling

I'm drawn to failure. I feel that I'm contending with it constantly in my own life. Joyce Carol Oates

• hard
• time
• life being hard

I've always tried to make a home for myself, but I have not felt at home in myself. I've worked hard at being the hero of my own life. But every time I checked the register of displaced persons, I was still on it. I didn't know how to belong. Longing? Yes. Belonging? No. Jeanette Winterson

• life
• soul
• world

I'm not in the world to guard my own life, but to guard souls Victor Hugo

• life
• know
• than

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

• life
• owned
• my own

More than my own life Stephenie Meyer

• father
• husband
• school

I have already told you Father, more than once: I’m not going to subject myself to a husband chosen for me, I’m not going to bury myself in some planter’s kitchen, and I’m not going to be a servant to some doctor or lawyer in Ilhus. I want to live my own life. When I finish school at the end of the year, I want to go to work in an office Jorge Amado

• future
• wellness
• calm

Out of the blue, Paul reported feeling bouts of calm euphoria, a mystical sense of all's-right-with-his-life-and-the-universe, a bright future in sight. ... I knew well the state of vigorous calm he meant, a frequent visitor throughout my own life. [p. 290] Diane Ackerman

• life
• hero
• being

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. Charles Dickens

• life
• work
• together

I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart. If you'd wanted the narrative line you should have asked earlier, when I still knew everything and was more than willing to tell. That was before I discovered the virtues of scissors, the virtues of matches. Margaret Atwood

• life
• work
• together

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

• time
• creepy
• life

I had no idea what time I’d left, how I’d gotten home, who’d been up here, and how long he, she, or they had stayed. Another night, added to the hundreds that had gone before, shrouded in mystery. Really, when you thought about it, it was creepy. My own life was a secret to me. Heather King

• life
• time
• world

Every time I get something under control in my own life, the world provides more material. Cathy Guisewite