Ann Aguirre Quotes

I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.

I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.

I just want to be myself and go for my own dreams and goals.

Your life is yours and yours alone. Rise up and live it.

My life choices are not supposed to be the gateway to somebody else's. That's my journey.

You can't base your life on other people's expectations.

I'm not doing anything for anybody. I'm doing what I do.

You're your own person, and it's about you. I'm my own person, and it's about me. Everyone has their own life.

I've lived my whole life in the life - I've lived my whole life doing the thing, I've been doing my own thing. And I think my life speaks volumes about what one must do.

I'm not trying to live anybody else's life.

I want people to see me as my own person.

Only in those moments when I exercise my freedom am I fully myself.

My love affair with (him) had a wonderful element of romance to it, which I will always cherish. But it was not an infatuation, and here’s how I can tell: because I did not demand that he become my Great Emancipator or my Source of All Life, nor did I immediately vanish into that man’s chest cavity like a twisted, unrecognizable, parasitical homonculus. During our long period of courtship, I remained intact within my own personality, and I allowed myself to meet (him) for who he was.

There is one thing you and I as parents cannot do, not do we want to do if we really think about it, and that's control our children's will--that spirit that lets them be themselves apart from you and me. They are not ours to possess, control, manipulate, or even to make mind.

I do my thing and you do your thing. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, And you are not in this world to live up to mine. You are you, and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, it's beautiful. If not, it can't be helped.

You weren't created to be unhappy in order to keep everyone else happy. Run your own race.

I go where I'm stimulated. If I'm stimulated, I show up. As Mick Jagger sings: It's my life and I'll do what I want.

For the first time in my life I've done something for me and by choice and not because somebody told me it was good or bad.

Don't live your life to please other people.

You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one's own.

I was born alone, I'm gonna die alone. I have my own identity. I'm my own person, and no two people are the same.

What does it mean to be an individual? What does it mean to flourish?

I was kind of raised with the suggestion that I had a duty to do; that life was real, life was earnest. And I hated that, actually. I needed to be liberated, to be told that I could live the life that I wanted to live; that I didn't need a job, or to be shouted at; that I could be myself; that I could be happy.

I'm responsible for what I am and what I want to be. I'm not trying to live by another's standards.

You can't live someone else's expectations in life. It's a recipe for disaster.