Jerome Boateng Quotes

I envy people with dreams and passions, but I don't think that way. I still don't have a 'bliss' to follow. For people like me - I suspect that's most people - holding out for a 'dream' or a 'passion' is paralyzing. I just like having work I enjoy that feels meaningful. That's hard enough... but it's enough.

I was concerned about filling my life up with something important to me. To me, it was just necessary.

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.

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 felt for a long time that this is what I want to do so I'm happy at this point to just take my time and work on projects that I feel strongly about, and the rest of the time just live my life.

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

You can't tell what's going to fulfill you in different stages in your life.

The best path through life is the highway.

The questions I'm asking myself are, 'What makes me happy? Where do I want to be? What will make me happy at 50, 60 and 70?'

Some goals are not going to fulfill you. Choose goals that you value and care about.

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

I had always wanted to belong, and I had been thinking that this was going to get solved when I had money, and instead, I had no idea how I wanted to live my life. And no one teaches you what to do after you achieve financial independence. So I had to confront that.

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

I'm not searching for the meaning of life, but I'm looking for a meaning within my life.

Many people in their teens wonder about these big questions - what's the meaning of life, what are we doing here - then somewhere in their 20s, they seem to say, 'I'll just get married. I'll just have kids. I'll get back to that later.' But they never do. For me, it kept boiling.

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.

You have a deeper purpose that drives you. You have to talk to yourself about what that purpose is. If you run through like a hamster to chase fame or money, you might end up wasting your life away. You find what drives you and gives you energy.

I've found my purpose in life, definitely.

I haven't really had much to do with my life. All I've done is take part in it.

Sometimes it takes the better part of a lifetime to find out what your passion is, but in my observation, if you do, it might be the best part of your life.

Everything changes when you make a decision to be one of the courageous ones, someone who chooses to make a life, rather than a living.

All of us have to figure out our own passion, our own journey. Follow your heart.

The key is to figure out what you want out of life, not what you want out of your career.

Look yourself in the mirror and ask yourself, what do I want to do everyday for the rest of my life. Do that!

Love one person, take care of them until you die. You know, raise kids. Have a good life. Be a good friend. And try to be completely who you are. And figure out what you personally love. And like go after it with everything you've got no matter how much it takes.