Naomi Alderman 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.

I'm not looking at money, percentage points or grosses. This is my life, you know? To me, every day matters.

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

When you're 40, you can't ride the fence anymore. You gotta make definite decisions about your life.

Human life is truly a short affair. It is better to live doing the things that you like.

I'm 47, You learn life is short and it's not worth doing something if you don't enjoy it.

If you have only one life, you can't altogether ignore the question: are you enjoying it?

Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do.

As you get older, you start to really ask questions like, 'Is this the road I should be walking down?,' because every decision seems more final, as you get older.

You don't do everything in life in order to make money.

You have to be able to wake up every day and be happy with what your decision in life is, and that's why I never recruit.

I'm a big believer that your life is basically a sum of all the choices you make. The better your choices, the better opportunity to lead a happy life.

I think most people struggle over a matter of years to find a satisfying way to live.

I don't read such boring things. Life is too short.

People don't live nowadays: they get about ten percent out of life.

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

No matter what we're trying to accomplish in life, or what career path we're trying to take, sometimes we get caught up and lose perspective on what's important in life.

By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.

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 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.

I've got, like, too many things that I'd like to try and do, so I'm trying to figure out where the natural pull is strongest.

If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.

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

The goal isn't to be successful; it's to be happy. And so it doesn't matter if I'm doing things in New York or teaching high school or I drop it altogether and sell coffee. The goal is to be happy, and people and relationships are what makes you happy.

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.