Bell Hooks Quotes

What do you want? What do you want your life to be? What do you want your testimony to be? Go for it!

Even when I was starting out, I knew there were certain things that I didn't want to do or wanted to do.

I knew what I wanted to do when I was 13 and I had to go through four years of high school to get out. That's a blessing, because I never had to lay on my bed staring up at the ceiling going, 'What am I going to do with my life?'

I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I try to choose the road that I have the most passion on because then you can never really blame yourself for making the wrong choices. You can always say you're following your passion.

I wanted to be a lot of things in my life.

You have to know what you want out of your work or out of your life.

I haven't any sort of plans for the future but I reckon things will work out in some manner.

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.

I kind of had my life planned out for me. I'd be married at some point, have, you know, 1.5 children, and be a principal possibly one day. But I think that that was kind of my problem. I allowed myself to plan out my life and didn't let provident direction guide my life.

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.

You're writing your life as you go - the question becomes, how do you want to write your life?

You know, I don't think I had a concept of what I would be or do.

One of the most important things that I have learned in my 57 years is that life is all about choices. On every journey you take, you face choices. At every fork in the road, you make a choice. And it is those decisions that shape our lives.

I have no advice for anyone on how to live.

Everything I did and continue to do happens for a reason, and honestly, I don't regret much in my life.

To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.

When you've moved past a point where you're just scrambling for jobs, you think about the things that you want to do. And the things that you want to do are governed by what you've seen, what you choose to embrace.

Any decision I make is the biggest decision of my life.

I believe that you are not stuck with a pre-destiny. I believe that there is ways to see all these things that are laid down in front of you and where you belong and to smack yourself in the face when you realize that you've strayed off your path and get back to where your path is.

The best path through life is the highway.

The saddest thing in life is wasted talent and the choices you make will shape your life forever.

When I got to 40 or so... I had the sense when I looked back over my life I would actually see a mess of decisions, a few of which I had thought about, some of which I had sort of stumbled on, and many that I had no control over whatsoever.

I want young women when they're 14 to start thinking about what they want over the course of their lives.

I feel like in a world where we all try to figure out our place and our purpose here, your passions are one of your most obvious guides.