Jodi Picoult Quotes

'Karwaan' was meant for me.

The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.

I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.

I believe life takes us where we need to be.

I believe BMX has shaped me into who I am today, so if this journey never would have begun, then who knows the person I would be or what I would be doing with my life.

I was a bit of a lost lamb in my twenties, trying to find my higher calling.

Your past may not be perfect, but it was perfect for your purpose.

Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going?

I think most people struggle over a matter of years to find a satisfying way to live.

When I was growing up in Terrell, Texas, I felt that it was not where I was supposed to be. I knew that I was meant for a different destination. I think that the minute I was born, there was something inside telling me where I would go, it's like energy - an intangible destiny.

Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.

Learning what you don't want to do is pretty valuable, it may be as valuable as figuring out what it is you do want to do.

I think people tend to fall into their careers sometimes, and maybe that's a lucky path to follow because you actually end up doing your purpose.

I think my life did go the way it was supposed to go for me.

I think essentially the meaning of life is probably the journey and not really any one thing or an outcome or a result.

I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.

There's nothing better than discovering, to your own astonishment, what you're meant to do. It's like falling in love.

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

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.

I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.

Map out your future - but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip.

Ultimately it doesn't matter whether you go forwards or backwards: you need to live your life as well as you can.

How you go about moving within the world you live in says so much about who you are.

In 2013, I didn't work at all, just contemplating what I needed to do, whether I was walking in my destiny or not.

It's always good to find out what you don't want to do.