This quote means that you shouldn’t try to live your life based on other people’s judgments or expectations, but rather how you want to live your life. Life is too short to give other people control over how you live it. It is important to make decisions for yourself based on what you think is right for you, not based on how other people might perceive it. This is because it is impossible to fully understand how someone else perceives a situation and how they would act in it. It is important to be self-aware and to think for yourself, and not just listen to what other people have to say.