Lupita Nyong'o Quotes

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).

When I was in the eighth grade, I wrote this huge long paper about how I had no idea what I was gonna do with my life, but that I wanted to make a difference and touch even if it was like one person's life... inspire them.

Most of my friends between 21 and 31 are at different stages of figuring out what the hell they are going to do with their lives. It's a big part of our generation. What is the next step?

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

I think the whole reason for my life is in there somewhere.

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.

I'm totally confused about what I'm going to do with my life.

Eventually, I had to figure out what the hell I was going to do with my life. I needed to find my way back to Fleetwood Mac.

I had money, but I still didn't know what to do with my life.

Getting in touch with your life purpose is important.

I went through a phase after we won the World Cup of 'what am I going to do with my life.'

I was lucky enough to know exactly what I wanted to do when I was growing up. I think one of the hardest things to figure out in life is what your calling is, and what truly makes you happy - not what you want to work at, but what you want to do.

For me, the magazine was always the heart of what my life was all about, and the other half was living the life.

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

After graduating in the summer of 1980, I knew I wanted my life to count.

To find one's calling is perhaps not the easiest thing in the world, but probably the most important.

I auditioned in Chicago for Juilliard and didn't get in. I was basically living in a back room of my parents' house, paying rent and not doing anything with my life. I'd like to say it was patriotic to join the Marines, but it was also that I was doing nothing honorable with my life and spending too much time at McDonald's.

I'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm running towards. But as some great writer put it, I want to be certain that when I arrive at death, I'm totally exhausted.

I have reached a place in my life where I need to sit down and say, 'Well, what do I do? What's best for me?' I need to look into options for the future.

I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever 'completing a life' means.

For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.

My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.

It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?

If you're lucky, I think you know what you want to do with your life. I think that's a greater gift that any of the gifts you might have when you do know, if you know what I mean. It must be awful to not know what to do.

I am waiting for a sign that will indicate to me what meaning I must give to my life, but right now my existence is satisfactory.