“There is only one success … to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
Christopher Morley Where the Blue Begins
Where the Blue Begins (1922)
“There is only one success … to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
Christopher Morley Where the Blue Begins
Where the Blue Begins (1922)
“What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to deceive?”
Erica Jong (1942) Novelist, poet, memoirist, critic
How to Save Your Own Life (1977)
“Humor is a way of holding off how awful life can be.”
Kurt Vonnegut book A Man Without a Country
A Man Without a Country (2005)
Louis Sachar book Holes
Variant: Zero wasnt worried, " When you spend your whole life living in a shole", he said, "the only way you can go is up.
Source: Holes
“The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.”
Peter Shaffer (1926–2016) English playwright and screenwriter
Source: Five Finger Exercise
“Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.”
Carl Sandburg (1878–1967) American writer and editor
Declaration at his 85th birthday party (6 January 1963), as quoted in The Best of Ralph McGill : Selected Columns (1980) by Ralph McGill, edited by Michael Strickland, Harry Davis, and Jeff Strickland, p. 82
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
As quoted without source in The School Musician Director and Teacher Vol. 43 (1971) by the American School Band Directors' Association
“Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.”
Chuck Palahniuk book Invisible Monsters
Source: Invisible Monsters