Sandra Echeverria Quotes

All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific.

I never knew what I wanted to do, but I knew the kind of woman I wanted to be.

I never had the chance to consider what or how I wanted to be.

I regret that I have not written more, shouted louder, and acted out my beliefs.

I feel with ELP that I wasn't making the most of my life and I wasn't making the most of my creativity. I was marking time. I don't want to do that. Life is to short.

I thought of the things that had happened to me over the years, and of how little I had made happen.

I didn't really know what I wanted to do, but I knew the woman I wanted to become.

The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.

Every man is the architect of his own life. He builds it just the way he wants it. However, after he has built what he wants, he sometimes decides that he doesn't like what he has built and looks for someone or something to blame instead of changing himself.

In the end, I want to be able to say, 'My life was what I made it.'

I am just like you and everyone else. I am trying to live my life as best I can.

Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.

'Suddenly Susan' is my life.

I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.

He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.

I'm not running from any particular problems, I just want to take some time and figure out in my life where I can keep doing what I'm doing but in a way that I can also honor what I want to do for myself.

That's the trouble with wishing you were somebody else. As much as you may want it, you know it'll never happen, at least not in this lifetime.

What is a fear of living? It's being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself - for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don't know what you're here to do, then just do some good.

The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power or goodness.

To regret fully is to appreciate how high the stakes are in even the average human life; fully experienced, it turns our eyes, attentive and alert, to a future possibly lived better than our past.

You do have to continue, as you grow as a human, checking in and going, 'Is this what I want? Am I giving away things that I don't want? Who am I and what do I want to keep doing?'

I think that's one of the things that's missing in a lot of people's lives. That's finding out what works for you and doing that.

I think you have to be pragmatic to the approach of life and brutally honest with yourself. We all are here to do something, and it is important to understand our potential first.

The real existential challenge is to live up to your fullest potential, along with living up to your intense sense of responsibility and to be honest to yourself about what you want.

The best comics enlist you to take accountability for who you are, whether you like it or not.