Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes

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.

We have a lot of depressed people in the world because they don't know what their purpose is in life.

When I was young I felt really overwhelmed and confused by the desire not to end up in an office, doing something I didn't believe in.

I'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm running towards. But as some great writer put it, I want to be certain that when I arrive at death, I'm totally exhausted.

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Waiting, waiting, waiting. All my life, I've been waiting for my life to begin, as if somehow my life was ahead of me, and that someday I would arrive at it.

There aren't a whole lot of things I want out of life. My bucket list is extremely short: Achieve the success in the industry I want, and get married. If I achieve both of those, I can die completely stoked. I don't need anything else.

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?'

Getting in touch with your life purpose is important.

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.

I'm just interested in carving out a meaningful life.

You reach a point at which you have to view your life through the things you've spent so much time doing. The alternative is a perilous feeling of waste.

I've found my purpose in life, definitely.

I went through a phase after we won the World Cup of 'what am I going to do with my life.'

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

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

I love filmmaking, but I decided to go to drama school because I thought that when I'm 60 and looking back on my life, if acting hadn't been a part of it, I would hate myself.

Yeah, I really like being alive. But I definitely don't have any intentions as an artist.

I think essentially the meaning of life is probably the journey and not really any one thing or an outcome or a result. I think it's kinda the process and I think that if you can find happiness in the process then maybe that's it.

By the age of 50, I would like to know that I'm not dead - that there's some continuity to my life.

One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.

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.

I never got tired of Tom and Jerry, but I did have a dream of doing more with my life than making cartoons.

There came a time when I felt I was not going to be satisfied with life unless I could write.