Life Is Like a Musical Quotes

“If you find yourself trying to figure out what kind of adult you should be, think back to what your younger self paid attention to. There's wisdom in who you were, back before you knew you had to be somebody.”
― Tim Federle, Life Is Like a Musical: How to Live, Love, and Lead Like a Star

“The more rules we pile onto ourselves, the less of a chance we have at striking true inspiration”
― Tim Federle, Life Is Like a Musical: How to Live, Love, and Lead Like a Star

“It’s easy to make fun of stuff and difficult to actually make stuff.”
― Tim Federle, Life Is Like a Musical: How to Live, Love, and Lead Like a Star

“Nobodies aren’t actually nobody.”
― Tim Federle, Life Is Like a Musical: How to Live, Love, and Lead Like a Star

“furnish your life with authentic souvenirs and one-off keepsakes that make you grin, make you remember, and make you thankful.”
― Tim Federle, Life Is Like a Musical: How to Live, Love, and Lead Like a Star

“If you don’t plant flags along the vast terrain that is your life, you run the risk of looking back and seeing a landscape that looks pretty flat.”
― Tim Federle, Life Is Like a Musical: How to Live, Love, and Lead Like a Star

“Have the audacity to belong in the room.”
― Tim Federle, Life Is Like a Musical: How to Live, Love, and Lead Like a Star

“Life is about beginning again,”
― Tim Federle, Life Is Like a Musical: How to Live, Love, and Lead Like a Star

“first you have to show up. Simply arriving at the starting line is the biggest hurdle for most people. Once you’re there, calamity is bound to strike, sooner or later, but at least you’re on-site and in the game, able to react and rejigger, even if at first you stumble.”
― Tim Federle, Life Is Like a Musical: How to Live, Love, and Lead Like a Star

“you know the alternative is to live a life of wishing. Not for what could have been, but for what should have been.”
― Tim Federle, Life Is Like a Musical: How to Live, Love, and Lead Like a Star

“terrified of screwing up but knowing that the only other choice was staying home. And once you’ve seen the world, you can’t stay home.”
― Tim Federle, Life Is Like a Musical: How to Live, Love, and Lead Like a Star

“Maybe casting yourself in your dream part means deciding, in your own way, to create something, every day you’ve got on earth.”
― Tim Federle, Life Is Like a Musical: How to Live, Love, and Lead Like a Star

“...stop chasing after the guy who never texts you back. Sometimes hard-to-get is just too hard to live with.”
― Tim Federle, Life Is Like a Musical: How to Live, Love, and Lead Like a Star

“Wondering only has one cure. It's called Doing.
So go do, and see. And live.”
― Tim Federle, Life Is Like a Musical: How to Live, Love, and Lead Like a Star

“If it feels as if nobody is noticing all your hard work, keep at it.”
― Tim Federle, Life Is Like a Musical: How to Live, Love, and Lead Like a Star

“...never forget you're the leading character in your own life. Read that sentence again: You aren't the supporting cast. You're it, baby. Too many of us relegate ourselves quite willingly to the sidelines of somebody else's story, for any number of reasons. Starting today, own the fact that on the grand musical that is your own journey, you're the only person who's taking the final bow. You're the whole show: the dialogue, the inner monologues, the crew, and the cast. So start composing a life that's a joy to actually sing about.”
― Tim Federle, Life Is Like a Musical: How to Live, Love, and Lead Like a Star

“(or works at a start-up, for that matter)”
― Tim Federle, Life Is Like a Musical: How to Live, Love, and Lead Like a Star