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

“If there's a hell, I think it's an encyclopedia, and you can just look up what everyone in your life thought about you. And if there is a heaven, it's a wikipedia, and you can just change that.”

John Mulaney (1982) American actor and comedian

“Everyone thinks they can write a play; you just write down what happened to you. But the art of it is drawing from all the moments of your life.”

Neil Simon (1927–2018) playwright, writer, academic

“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

“You cannot live your whole life nor base it on the assumption that someone else is going to carry your responsibilities at the finish line.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese 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

“Life doesn't just happen to you; you
receive everything in your life based on what you've given.”

Rhonda Byrne (1951) Australian writer and producer

“Say too soon what you think and you will say what everyone else thinks.”

James Richardson (1950) American poet

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

Jodi Picoult book Nineteen Minutes

“You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can't. You have to do things.”

Stephen Chbosky (1970) American writer