Megan McCafferty Quotes

When in life do you get a black and white printout that says this is what you should do? It just doesn't happen.

Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

Everyone feels at times like they're missing a page or two out of the handbook that tells you how to live your life.

The world's a forest, in which all lose their way; though by a different path each goes astray.

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.

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.

Sometimes, I wonder what I'm doing here.

Every orientation presupposes a disorientation.

Some ideas, like what you're going to do with your life, take time to form.

Sometimes I wake up and think, 'How did I get here?'

I remember distinctly running through my neighborhood, thinking I knew how to get to 'Sesame Street,' and then finally finding myself among some scrub trees and realizing I don't know where to go from here. I had to just mope back home.

I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks.

I've always been sort of confused by the trajectory my life has taken. I was supposed to be on an assembly line building Buicks.

I spent the first 25 years of my life not knowing what I wanted to do.

I'm more lost when I'm not on tour. I'm in a bit of a muddle at nine o'clock - 'Where's the stage?' On tour, there are people directing and supervising you.

I could not have told where those damned islands were within 2,000 miles.

We're lost, but we're making good time.

Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.

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

I get lost a lot.

I've always felt unsure of exactly what I wanted to do with my life, but I have these rare moments of total clarity where everything is perfectly clear.

i had no idea what i wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out.

It was like looking at a knot, knowing it was a knot, but not knowing how to untie it. I had no map for this life.

You need a plan to build a house. To build a life, it is even more important to have a plan or goal.

You have arms and legs, but don't know what to do with your lives.