Lucia Micarelli Quotes

Young adults in their late 20s are confronted by so many choices - there are so many different paths to choose. Sometimes I think we just fill our lives with stuff so we don't really make any choice at all, which is certainly incredibly luxurious.

What we spend our time on is probably the most important decision we make.

I was never really sure what I wanted to do - I'm in awe of these people who knew at age 10 or 12 they wanted to be a brain surgeon, and they did it, and they still are.

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.

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.

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

It's a matter of choosing what is most important to you and putting that first. Once you have recognized your true purpose in life, this becomes much easier.

I've got other things to do with my life.

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

I think when you are young and you don't really know what you want in life, you can commit to something and think at the time it is right.

More choice doesn't make us happy, and we understand that no one has infinite choices about how to live life.

Most of us don't work out what we want. And most of us end up with lopsided lives as a result.

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

I think we should stop asking people in their twenties what they 'want to do' and start asking them what they don't want to do.

But knowing what I don’t want to do doesn’t help me figure out what I do want to do. I could do just about anything if somebody made me. But I don’t have an image of the one thing I really want to do. That’s my problem now. I can’t find the image.

Sometimes the path you're on is not as important as the direction you're heading.

If you really want to know where your destiny lies, look at where you apply your time.

Whatever causes you to drop your plan forward and open to your vision, your own, deeply personal vision of what your life could be at its very best, that's what I call meeting your rhinoceros.

If you don't know what you want, you end up with a lot you don't.

Until the age of thirteen, I tortured the waiting worlds of book illustration and professional football by shilly-shallying over which of them was going to get the benefit of my inestimable talents.

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 don't know what I want to do. There are people who want me to do things. There's a possible book. There are lots of things to consider. I just have to figure out what I want to do. I'm not one to sit around and do nothing.

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 promise my students that if they take the time to figure out their life purpose, they'll look back on it as the most important thing they discovered while at school. If they don't figure it out, they will just sail off without a rudder and get buffeted in the very rough seas of life.

I definitely connected to the fact that life gets out of control and you end up doing things and wishing you were doing other things instead.