Lisa Scottoline Quotes

I don't have to do anything for anyone else's benefit anymore. I just want to exceed my own expectations.

For me, a happy ending is not everything works out just right and there is a big bow, it's more coming to a place where a person has a clear vision of his or her own life in a way that enables them to kind of throw down their crutches and walk.

Life is about making your own happiness - and living by your own rules.

We all have to work for happiness. And you cannot listen to other people. That is the worst mistake you can make.

You can give them the opportunity to thrive, but when it comes to finding happiness or success, kids are really on their own.

I think I have enough of a sense to know what works for me and what doesn't, without going into some big thing and analyzing what I do. I'm in a position that allows me to do what I want to do, and I do it.

I'm trying to do it my way. For me to be happy in the business means I have to do it myself.

The will of man is his happiness.

Don't depend on a guy for your happiness. You have to live your own life and do your own thing. That's when good things come around - when you do your own thing and you're not worried about a man. It will happen in due time.

I've run into certain geniuses of individualism - they are very few and far between - who live their lives completely on their own terms; they are very powerful and have a great amount of happiness. We all should aspire to that.

I work hard, and I do good, and I'm going to enjoy myself. I'm not going to let you restrict me.

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

I have great friends around me that are positive and I think that's the key to life is making your own path. Set your own rules because there is no set rule, there is no set look, there is no set anything. You make your own rules in your life. You make your own decisions.

The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands, wherever you go... It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.

I don't think anyone has made me except myself. I think I have done it on my own.

Hero shows you how to solve the problem - yourself.

My plan growing up was to leave home and try not to panic. I always knew that to strive to be self-sufficient was an important ambition.

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

I'm not jealous of anybody, because I'm going to live my life the way I want to live it. I'm not going to be like, 'Oh my God they have this, I want that.'

I had always been a free spirit and always gotten what I wanted.

The lesson that people can't give me what they don't have, and if there's anything I took from it, it was: okay, I don't really expect anyone to hand me anything. There's going to be me and the world.

Since being quite young, I've had a very strong sense of independence and survival. As a child, I was on my own two feet emotionally.

We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance.

Claiming your life for yourself feels like a huge deal until you do it.

Now, everything I do, I do because I want to. And I believe the best is yet to come.