“Do not take the agenda that someone else has mapped out for your life.”

“Figure out what is real for you. No use leaning on someone else's story all your life.”

Shannon Hale book Austenland

“There are moments in your life when you see yourself through someone else’s eyes, when your only hope of believing you’re capable of doing something is because someone else believes it for you.”

Marc Acito (1966) American novelist, humorist, screenwriter

“MARIE    I’m saying that the right man for you might be out there right now and if you don’t grab him, someone else will, and you’ll have to spend the rest of your life knowing that someone else is married to your husband.”

Nora Ephron (1941–2012) Film director, author screenwriter

“If you don't clearly understand what you are looking for in a teacher or in internal work, you will inevitably accept someone else's agenda as your own. While you may start internal transformative work on the suggestion or advice of another person, at some point your practice has to become a response to your own questions about life and being.”

Ken McLeod (1948) Canadian lama

“It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else”

Erma Bombeck (1927–1996) When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent le…

“If you don't prioritize your life, someone else will.”

Greg McKeown (author) book Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

“You must be ready to take all your responsibilities upon your head, instead of relying upon someone else to do all the dirty work for you.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“Using your own time to make someone else’s life better is, like, the nicest thing you can do for anybody.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

“Do not live someone else's life and someone else's idea of what womanhood is. Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that's inside of you.”

Viola Davis (1965) American actress