“If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were?”

“When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your're the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

“That's what being crazy was, wasn't it? You thought you were fine. Everyone else knew better.”

Kelley Armstrong book The Summoning

“Mark: I felt that you were singing it to your husband, but I'd suggest that you should block everyone else out and REALLY sing it to your man.”

Hayley Jensen (1983) Australian singer

“You can not live your life just based on what everyone else thinks.”

Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker

“Memory is identity…. You are what you have done; what you have done is in your memory; what you remember defines who you are; when you forget your life you cease to be, even before your death.”

Julian Barnes (1946) English writer

“what you have to decide, is how you want your life to be. if your forever was ending tomorrow, would this b the way you'd want to have spent it?”

Sarah Dessen book The Truth About Forever

“If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.”

Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore

“I've always sort of wondered: If everyone else's opinion is what matters, then do you ever really have one of your own?”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

“You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.”

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States