Christopher Morley Quotes

I can't spend the rest of my life being pretty in a bonnet.

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

You got one life to live. So I'm living it the way I want to live it.

I like my life. I'm not living through anybody else's eyes, anybody else's life; I'm enjoying mine.

I'm trying to show people that you can have any kind of life you want.

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.

It's your life, live it your way.

At the end of the day, somebody someday is going to say something about you. At least you can look back and say you lived the way you wanted to.

I'm just living my life, and I'm not gonna live my life for other people.

I've learned not to let people judge me in how I want to live my life. Every single woman is an individual, and there's no one path. You just have to take the path that you think is right for you.

I was just living my life, and that's what I wanted to do.

I've always felt that life is a novel, and part of it is written for you, and part of it is written by you. It's up to you to write the ending, ultimately.

I've never been very cookie cutter. If I choose something different from the status quo, it's my responsibility and my choice to live my life that way.

I never do what anyone else is doing. I could walk away from music and become a farmer or do some crochet. The worst thing in life for me is to do something I'm not happy doing.

I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.

You are free to choose what you want to make of your life. It's called free agency or free will, and it's your birthright.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

I am not happy, and the quest for happiness as a principal objective is not part of my world. Of course, ever since I can remember, I have done what I felt like doing.

I'm just going to live my life the way I want to.

It's my life, it's up to me what I want to do with it. And I'm realizing that.

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 do only what I like. If we do something we don't like, we will become someone else.

As long as I'm building and doing what I want to do, that's the only thing that matters.

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

Regrets, I've had a few but then again too few to mention. And more, much more than this, I did it my way.