Dean Koontz Quotes

When I was growing up, you had to conform and do the same thing that everyone else was doing. I would just go home and make music and be able to make myself happy, but I know that's more of a challenge for some people.

And I don't believe that I have to stay on one side of the fence or the other. I don't believe that there is any good career move or bad career move. I believe there are only the things that make me happy.

It's a whole other ball game and I am glad that I fit into that space where, whatever it is that you want to do and you are doing as long as you are happy with it, then you know What the Heck!

In the end, the important thing is that you decide where you will be happy and where you can do well, to show that as well as being footballers, we are people.

Life's too short to be shoehorned into a box that isn't for you.

People can be happy in only one way, and that is if they are authentically themselves. Then the springs of happiness start flowing, they become more alive, they become a joy to see, a joy to be with; they are a song, they are a dance.

Living your life the way you want to live it is the most important thing so if you have to pay small prices along the way, it's not important.

You have to not only live your life in spite of people who don't understand you, you have to have more fun than they do.

You ain't got but one life. You ought to live it the way you want.

People's destinies are so different. Some people drag along, unnoticed and boring—they're all alike, and they're all unhappy. Then there are others, like for instance you—you're one in a million. You're happy—

It's a dream where you live a life that's powerful, one in which you can get married if you want to, raise kids if you want to, get educated to the limit of your capacity, and do what makes you happy, because we all are looking for the good life. We don't want to go through life with just fighting, fighting, fighting.

Most people don't lead their own lives - they accept their lives

I'm not trying to say that people don't have the right opinion but I have to live my life. And I'm living it and I'm loving it.

But why should you care what people will say? All you have to do is please yourself.

Ultimately, it's a really brave thing to do what makes you happy as opposed to what the norm, or the social norm is, and that's a very important thing for people to remember, especially young women.

The happiest people are the ones who follow their own dreams most closely.

Don't be afraid to be yourself just because you're not like everybody else in class. If you want to dye your hair green and that's what makes you happy, then dye your hair green, no matter what other people might say about it. Not everybody is going to like you - that's the world we live in; that's reality.

Success is the ability to live your life, the way you want to live it, doing what you enjoy most, surrounded by people you admire and respect.

I'm just doing what I wanted to and what feels right and not settling for bullshit and it worked. How can they be mad at that?

Success is about making your life a special version of unique that fits who you are - not what other people want you to be.

If you spend your life trying to please people or letting them control you, you may make them happy, but you'll miss your destiny.

I don't think it's the most important thing in life to fit it. I think it's the most important thing in life to dance to the beat of your own drum and to look like you're having more fun than the people who look cool like they fit in.

I think the idea is that every person has to live for his or her own life and then make the choice to share it with other people. Maybe that is what makes people "participate.

If people believe the world is here to satisfy them, whenever they begin to encounter their limitations, they become unhappy.

Every ethnic group has this where people within it will try and tell each other how they should be. So what I would say to other people is to just embrace who you are because you will become instantly happier.