Jack Garratt Quotes

I just don't spend maybe enough time figuring out my place. Maybe I do in the world, but not so much in Hollywood.

Don’t feel guilty if you don’t know what you want to do with your life…the most interesting people I know didn’t know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives, some of the most interesting 40 year olds I know still don’t.

Not sure of my place in the world (still up for debate) and not sure what I wanted to do with my life (not really up for debate).

I had moved back to Kenya after undergrad, and I went through this crisis of, 'What is my life going to be about?'

I've always had real trouble knowing what my actual desires and goals are. I've just been dragged along by fate.

It's getting harder to make decisions to just want to do something to work... I'm trying to find things that are extremely challenging or mean something to me deeply.

I decided to write books, just to prove to myself that I was still alive, if nothing else.

People go to college to find who they are as a person and find what they want to do in life, and I kind of already know that so it would be like I'd be taking a step back or something.

I went through a lot of occupations. I was questioning my contribution to the world.

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.

I was in college that first semester, and I was like, 'Wow, this isn't who I am. This isn't what I want to do.' I was like, 'Oh God, I'm going to have to go out and make something of myself, and I have no clue what that is.'

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

We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you don't have a goal. My goal is to live my life in such a way that when I die, someone can say, she cared.

Especially on unexpected journeys, you have time; you can figure certain deeper things out, like who you are and what you want. That's why I enjoy journeys.

I finished up my graduate degree in quantum mechanics, but underwent a bit of a personal crisis, recognizing that I didn't want to do that for the rest of my life. It was too abstract, too far removed from human concerns.

You can go slow. Allow your dreams and goals to change, but live an intentional life.

If your life were a book and you were the author, how would you want your story to go? That's the question that changed my life forever.

I was going to be a lawyer, and I had studied hard, but then it suddenly occurred to me in a very deep, profound way that I didn't want to keep practicing law for the rest of my life.

If you don't wake up and have your own thing, whether it's writing or reading or traveling or acting or dancing or singing or being a mother or a father, something that drives you, then it's all worth nothing. One of the key elements in happiness is purpose.

One of the greatest struggles of becoming an adult is figuring out what you want to do and what makes you happy. The courageous thing is to stick with it and see it through and see if you were correct.

If you can't figure out your purpose, figure out your passion. For your passion will lead you right into your purpose.

He had got himself a life. Now he had to find a purpose in it.

Instead of asking, “what do I want from life?,” a more powerful question is, “what does life want from me?

What is it you want? That's a question that we all get posed sometimes internally and sometimes externally.

I think it's really important to give yourself a very big question that you're working on that you can come home to.